Unite! Courses

The partner universities of the Unite! Alliance partner universities are offering selected courses for students in the areas of languages, communication and global competence. These courses are open to all students enrolled at one of the Unite! partner institutions and can be taken online from your home university. You can take the offer in preparation for a stay abroad, curricularly or voluntarily. The credit points earned will be acknowledged by your university.

You can find the current course offer in the course list on Metacampus.

Courses at TU Darmstadt:

TUCaN Modul 41-11-2291-ku
Course description The focus of this course is verbal argumentation and discussion in German as a Foreign Language, including engaging in dialogue and conversation. Students will learn how to present themselves and their arguments verbally. Students will employ oral communication skills in exercises which lead specifically to effective presentation of arguments, including adding further arguments and effective listening. Students will engage in role plays, presentations and debate-discussion panels in pairs and groups to practise and improve their skills in various types of oral communication.
Time every Monday from 09:50 to 11:30 (CET)/ October 2023 – February 2024
Instructor
Credits 3 ECTS
Requirements B1- level completed / Placement test or certificate from UNIcert II level or UNIcert I certificate
TUCaN Modul 41-11-2292-ku
Course description The focus of this course is verbal argumentation and discussion in German as a Foreign Language, including engaging in dialogue and conversation. Students will learn how to present themselves and their arguments verbally. Students will employ oral communication skills in exercises which lead specifically to effective presentation of arguments, including adding further arguments and effective listening. Students will engage in role plays, presentations and debate-discussion panels in pairs and groups to practise and improve their skills in various types of oral communication.
Time every Wednesday from 09:50 to 11:30 (CET)/ October 2023 – February 2024
Instructor
Credits 3 ECTS
Requirements B1- level completed / Placement test or certificate from UNIcert II level or UNIcert I certificate
TUCaN Modul 41-00-2621-ku
Course description The virtual intercultural simulation game Megacities takes place in cooperation with the Université de Grenoble, Politechnika Wrocławska, Technische Universität Graz und Technische Universität Darmstadt. A simulation game is an experiential learning method whereby students experience interculturality through play in the context of internationality, multilingualism, virtuality and various fields of expertise. Students will be encouraged to reflect on their own, often unconscious ideas of normality and thus deal constructively with foreignness and multilingualism.
Time In Megacities, teams from the four universities meet six times for a period of 2.5 hours each. The game will take place on Thursdays between 17:15 and 19:45 in the period from 11 November to 14 December 2023.
Max. number of participants A total of 36 Students of the Université de Grenoble, Politechnika Wrocławska, Technische Universität Graz and TU Darmstadt can participate.
Instructor
Credits 3 ECTS
Requirements English for everyday use at level B2
TUCaN Modul 41-63-2131-ku
Course description This course is designed for students who already have a good knowledge of Polish either because it is their heritage language or have acquired a sufficient level from previous courses. Students will practice writing on academic subjects and work with text types relevant to their studies, such as formal emails, reports, scientific articles, etc., and create their own portfolio.
Time Friday from 9:50 to 11:20 (CET)/ October 2023 – February 2024
Instructor
Credits 3 ECTS
Requirements B1- level completed / Placement test or certificate from Polish VII/VIII / UNIcert I certificate or contact

Students who are not enrolled at TU Darmstadt can apply here until 5. September.
TUDa students can register directly via TUCaN from 1. October onwards.

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More information about Unite!

Unite! (University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering) consists of TU Darmstadt as coordinator, Aalto University (Finland), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Grenoble Institute of Technology (France), Politecnico Di Torino (Italy), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), the Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), the University of Technology (Austria) and the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland).

As a European University, the nine partner universities are hard at work to create a trans-European campus for students and scientists including regions and enterprises. Between them, they have 167,000 students; they already cooperate closely in more than 80 EU projects and have exchanged more than 2,000 students in the past five years. The Alliance’ goal is to bundle joint study opportunities to the benefit of students, to reduce technical and administrative obstacles and by doing so to increase student mobility significantly. Research is also to benefit from these extended and simplified cooperation conditions; thus, strengthening the competitiveness of the European environment of higher education.

Additional information about Unite! and its 9 partner universities.