Courses taught in English for Exchange Students
Although advanced knowledge of German will give you access to a broad range of courses during your stay in Fulda, a number of courses are taught in English. A list of courses that are taught in English in each of our departments is provided below. Some minor changes may be made. As a general rule, Bachelor's students can take Master's-level courses and vice versa.
Key terms
hours/week refers to contact hours only and does not include individual work outside lectures.
Credits are based on the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), where one credit is the equivalent of a total workload of 30 hours, i.e. contact hours plus individual work.
WiSe indicates that courses run in the winter semester.
SoSe indicates that courses run in the summer semester.
Department of Applied Computer Science
- BigData and noQSL databases: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Building Web and Mobile Apps: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Cloud Computing: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Distributed Applications: 4 hous/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Global Distributed Software Development: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Intercultural Communication and Scientific Work: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Elective Course (one course will be offered):
- Intercultural Project Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Software Development Project: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Special Topic of Global Software Development: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Research Project: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Machine Learning: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Model-Driven Development: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Parallel Programming: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Programming Paradigms: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Reconfigurable Computing: 4 hous/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Test-Oriented Development: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
www.hs-fulda.de/en/studies/departments/applied-computer-science/
Department of Business
International Course in Business (30 ECTS)
(from September 1 to December 21, 2023)
- Intercultural Competence - Business Simulation
- German Language A1 (other levels might be available)
- Digital Marketing or Digital Business (either one offered)
- The German and European Economy in a Global Context
- Sustainable Business Management
www.hs-fulda.de/fachbereiche/wirtschaft/internationales/informationen-fuer-incomings-1/international-course-in-business
Bachelor's programme in Business Law - Sustainability and Ethics
- Corporate Law I: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe (only partly taught in English)
- Private Business Law III:4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe (only partly taught in English - check module description)
www.hs-fulda.de/wr
Bachelor's programme in International Business Administration
- Applied Business Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Business English (B1/B2): 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Corporate Logistics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe (early exam in January or July)
- Digital Marketing and Ecommerce: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Employability Shaping: 4hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Entrepreneurship: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Introduction to Economics & Research: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Introduction to Supply Chain Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe (early exam in January or July)
- Logistics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Macroeconomics and International Monetary Economics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Market Research and Strategies for Markets abroad: 4hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Mathematics 2: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Microeconomics and International Trade: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe (early exam in January or July)
- Neuromerchandising: 12 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Professional and Academic English (B2): 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe (early exam in January or July)
- Sustainable Business Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Transportation Logistics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
www.hs-fulda.de/ibwl
Bachelor's programme in International Business & Management
- Academic Reading and Writing: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Business Communications (B2.2-C1.1): 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Business English (B2.2): 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Business Simulation: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Case Study 1: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Case Study 2: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Corporate Finance: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Corporate Governance & Corporate Social Responsibility: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Cost Accounting: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Digital Business: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Entrepreneurship: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Financial Accounting: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Financial Reporting: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Human Resources and Organsational Behavior: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Intercultural Communication: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- International Business Law 1: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- International Business Law 2: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- International Strategic Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Introduction to Business 1: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Introduction to Business 2: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Introduction to Economics & Research: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Marketing: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Macroeconomics: 4 hours/week, 5 Credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Microeconomics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Management Accounting: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Mathematics 1: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Mathematics 2: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Spanish/French for Business 1 (A1.2): 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Statistics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Supply Chain Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Taxation: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
Master's programme in International Management
- Consumer Behaviour in an International Context:4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Controllership in International Companies: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe (English description is coming soon)
- Corporate Governance & Corporate Social Responsibility: Block seminar (Fridays) 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- European and International Business Law: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- European Labour Law: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Geographic Analytics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Global Human Resource Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- International Economics and European Integration: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- International Financial Markets & Risk Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe, WiSe
- Leadership & Communication:4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe (English description is coming soon)
- Practical Management of a Global Firm (Business Simulation): 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe (English description is coming soon)
- Quantitative Empirical Methods for Management: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe (English description is coming soon)
- Strategic Management and Globalization: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe, SoSe
Master's programme in Supply Chain Management
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Module in the two Bachelor's programmes in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (BEng) one of which is offered as a campus-based programme with in-company training (sandwich degree)
Department of Food Technology
Bachelor’s programme in Food Technology
- Basic Principles of Food Engineering: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Food Microbiology: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Food Technology I: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Fundamentals of Biology and Row Materials: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- General Chemistry: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Management in Food Companies: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Mathematics I: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Mathematics II: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Organic Chemistry: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Physics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Physical Chemistry: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Principles of Scientific Research: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
Bachelor's programme in Science and Engineering
- Chemistry for Engineers: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Economics: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- English for Engineers I: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- English for Engineers II: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Informatics for Engineers: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Introduction to Science and Engineering:4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Mathematics for Engineers I: 6 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Mathematics for Engineers II: 6 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
- Law and Society: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Physics for Engineers: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, SoSe
Department of Health Sciences
Bachelor's programme in International Health Sciences
- Academic Reasoning and Techniques in Health Sciences: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, WiSe
- Elective Module EU-Health Policy: Institutional Responsibilities, Areas of Action and Chanllenges: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, WiSe
- English for Global Health: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, WiSe
- Evidence-Informed Decision-Making: 6 hours/week, 10 credits, WiSe
- Global Health Challenges and Health Managment: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, SoSe
- Global Health Policy, Politics, Power and Rights: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, SoSe
- Health Inequalities in and between Countries: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, SoSe
- Health Systems in the Global Context: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, SoSe
- Population Health and Health Problems: 8 hours/week, 10 credits, WiSe
- Qualitative Methods in Global Health Research: Decoloniality in Practice 6 hours/week, 10 credits, WiSe
- Social Research Methods:8 hours/week, 10 credits, SoSe
- Study Project: 6 hours/week, 20 credits, SoSe
offered in summer semester 2023:
Department of Nutritional, Food and Consumer Science
Master's programme in International Food Business and Consumer Studies
- Consumer Science and Sustainable Consumption: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, SoSe
- Food Quality Management: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, SoSe
- Information Systems for the Food Industry: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe
- Innovative Product Development: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, SoSe
- Intercultural Communication:Changing Societies: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe*
- International Legislation on Consumer Protection and Food: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe
- Management and Management Accounting: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe*
- Innovation Management in the Food Industry: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe
- Marketing Research: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe*
- Nutritional and Consumer Behaviour: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe
- Organic food processing and food quality: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, SoSe*
- Principles of Organic Farming: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe*
- Quality Management and Certification for organic products: block course, 6 credits, WiSe
- Recent Developments in Food and Nutritional Sciences: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, SoSe
- Responsible and Sustainable Food Business in Global Contexts: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe*
- Research Methods: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe*
- Strategic Management: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, SoSe*
- Institutions and the Food System: 4 hours/week, 6 credits, WiSe*
www.hs-fulda.de/en/studies/departments/nutritional-food-and-consumer-sciences/study-programmes/master-programmes/
*This degree programme is run jointly by Fulda University of Applied Sciences and the University of Kassel, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences at Campus Witzenhausen. An asterisk (*) indicates courses that are taught at the Campus in Witzenhausen. Please note that there are a restricted number of places on some of the courses. Please contact the programme coordinator in advance to check availability.
Department of Social and Cultural Sciences
Master's programme in Intercultural Communication and European Studies and
Master's programme in Human Rights Studies in Politics, Law and Society
- Cross-border Cooperation: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, SoSe
- Critical Diversity Studies and Human Rights: 2 hours/week, SoSe
- Communication and Cultural Difference: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, SoSe
- Communicating Violence - Sociological Approaches to the Narration and Translation of Violent Experiences: 2 hours/week, SoSe
- Ethnography: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, SoSe
- European Economic Integration: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, SoSe
- European Funding Policies - Proposal and Project Development: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, WiSe
- European Integration: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- European Union and Democratisation: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, SoSe
- Freedom of Speech: Public Communication in the Era of Digitalisation: 2 hours/week, SoSe
- Fulda Reading Circle: Recent Literature in Human Rights: 2 hours/week, SoSe
- Fundamental Rights. Methods, Procedures, Institutions: 2 hours/week, SoSe
- Histories of International Human Rights Law: 2 hours/week, SoSe
- Human Rights Critique: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, SoSe
- Human Rights and Intercultural Communication: 2 hours/week, SoSe
- Intercultural Communication: Culture Reflexive Meta-Perspectives: 4 hours/week, 5 credits, WiSe
- Intercultural Conflict Management: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, WiSe
- Social Change – Struggles of the Future: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, SoSe
- The Global South in International Relations: 2 hours/week, SoSe
- Train the (intercultural) Trainer: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, WiSe
- Transnational Migration and Development Networks: 2 hours/week, 3 credits, SoSe
Department of Social Work
Bachelor's programme in Social Work
Modules in the Bachelor's programme in Social Work that are part of the international course in Social Work in an Intercultural Context in Theory and Practice with a total workload of 30 ECTS:
- Module Social Work in an International Context and Fundamentals of Intercultural Competence which comprises:
- The policy, politics and structure of Europe, 2,5 ECTS
- Subject-specific aspects of social inequality and social work, 5 ECTS
- Fundamental intercultural competences, 2,5 ECTS
- Creative Project, 5 ECTS
- Module Field Experience in an Intercultural Context which comprises:
- Field Experience, Good Practice and Project Work, 7,5 ECTS
- Visiting Social Work Institutions: visits to observe “good practice”, 10 ECTS
- Module German as a Foreign Language, 5 ECTS
https://www.hs-fulda.de/sozialwesen/internationales/incomings/international-course
German and English Language Courses
Language | Degree programme | Course title | Credit Points |
English | all | Business English, B2.1, Blended Learing (Business IT) | 5,0 |
English | IIW | English for Engineers, B2/C1 (International Engineering) | 5,0 |
English | all | Englisch with Speexx A1-C1, online self-study courses (8 different courses from level A1 - C1.2) | 2,5 |
English | all | English A2, Blended Learning | 5,0 |
English | all | English B1.1, Blended Learning | 5,0 |
English | all | English B1.2, Blended Learning | 5,0 |
English | all | English B2.1, Blended Learning | 5,0 |
English | all | English B2.2, Blended Learning | 5,0 |
English | all | English C1.1, Blended Learning | 5,0 |
English | all | English for Business (B2/C1) | 2,5 |
English | LT/OE/PG | English for Food Science (B2/C1) | 2,5 |
English | IHS | English for Global Health, C1.1 (International Health Sciences) | 10,0 |
English | ICEUS | English for Intercultural Communication and European Studies I (C1) | 2,5 |
English | BASIB | English for Intercultural Relations (B2/C1) | 2,5 |
English | BASIB | English for Intercultural Relations I, B1/B2 | 2,5 |
English | all | English Grammar Review (B1/B2) | 2,5 |
English | all | English, semi-intensive (B2) | 10,0 |
English | all | Speaking English (B2) | 2,5 |
German | IMB | German 1 for IBM (A1.2) | 5 |
German | IMB | German 2 for IBM (A2.2) | 5 |
German | all | Deutsch A1, Teil 1 für Internationale Studierende | 7,5 |
German | all | Deutsch A2, Teil 2 für Internationale Studierende | 7,5 |
German | all | Deutsch B1, Teil 1 für Internationale Studierende | 10 |
German | all | Deutsch B2, Teil 1 für Internationale Studierende | 10 |
German | IHS | Deutsch B2.1, Interkulturelle Kommunikation für IHS (1. Sem.) | 10 |
German | IIW | Deutsch B2.1, Interkulturelle Kommunikation für IIW (1. Sem.) | 10 |
German | IHS | Deutsch C1.1, Fachtexte lesen, verstehen und diskutieren für IHS | 10 |
German | ICEUS | Deutsch für ICEUS I (C1) | 2,5 |
German | all | Deutsch im Studium I (C1) | 2,5 |
German | all | Deutsche Grammatik für die DSH (C1/C2) | 5 |