A placement test is required for the courses in English, French, Spanish and Italian. Students should take this online placement test (C-test) before enrolment. If participants would like to join a course in any of the other languages offered and have already acquired competencies in that language, they should contact the SLI and then talk to the respective teacher before the course starts. For further information on the C-test, please click here.

Course levels marked with Roman numerals (I-V) must be taken chronologically and may not be attended concurrently. Course levels marked with capital letters (A-C) may be attended in any order. Courses subdivided into I a, I b or I c or II a, II b refer to the same course level. In these cases, several identical course levels of one language are offered at the same time in order to meet the high demand.

Students can take ECTS credits in all courses offered at the SLI. For the allocation of credit points, they have to sit the final exam and complete supplementary tasks set by the teachers (presentation, written assignment, additional test or similar). Students who need credit points should inform their teacher early enough, so he or she can set the respective tasks on time.

Students can receive three credit points for the language courses at the SLI, except for the courses belonging to the @Work series. Here, students receive two credit points. Students should contact the examination office in advance to find out whether the selected course will be recognised in the respective programme.

Students can receive a certificate of attendance without a grade and without credit points if they attend at least 75% of the course (active participation in class is a pre-requisite).

Students can receive a performance record with a grade but without credit points if they take part in the lessons actively and regularly, have at least 75% course attendance and pass the written final examination.

Students who take part in the lessons actively and regularly, have at least 75% course attendance, pass the written examination and hand in a supplementary task will receive a grade and credit points.

In all languages, except in English courses, participants receive a certificate if they successfully complete four consecutive courses. This language certificate also specifies the received language level (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Participants can receive a certificate in English if they successfully completed three consecutive courses at the same level (B1, B2, or C1).

Approx. four weeks after the completion of the course, participants can collect their performance record or certificate of attendance at the SLI office (S.09.06). As soon as the records/certificates of attendance are available, all participants will receive an email sent by the SLI office.

If students withdraw from an examination due to illness, it is absolutely necessary to submit a medical certificate. The catch-up exam must be arranged with the teacher of the course and the SLI office.

 Here you can find our terms and conditions.

In order to find out who can receive credit points and in which language courses, please refer to the module reference books of your respective degree courses.

Courses during the semester break are not offered on a regular basis. However, if necessary, the SLI will set up courses during the semester break. Please visit our website to get up-to-date information which would be posted in our news section.

The course fee will be debited shortly after the first lesson.

If you would like to cancel your course, please send an email to audio[at]uni-wuppertal.de. If you fail to show up in the first lesson, your place will not be cancelled automatically and the course fee will be charged.

A cancellation is free of charge until one day after the first lesson of the course.

If the result of your course exam has been entered into the campus management system by the examination office, you can apply for a reimbursement of the course fee by sending an email to audio[at]uni-wuppertal.de. 

Here you can find our course programme and an overview of the language levels you can achieve after completing several language courses.