Allotment of Course Places

Information about our target groups can be found under registration.

Places in our courses will be given in order of course registration: first come, first served. If the number of places in a course is highlighted in dark grey on our course platform, then the course is already fully booked. In this case, course registration is still possible, but you will be placed on the waiting list.

In order to facilitate the opportunity to participate in courses for as many students as possible, you are only permitted to register for one course of each level, e.g. Spanish A1 (Group A) or Spanish A1 (Group B) or Spanish A1 (Group C), but not both. Please choose a group. These groups have identical content and requirements.

If you are interested in participating in two or more courses that take place at the same time, then you have to pick one course and register for that particular course only. Multiple registrations for courses taking place at the same time unnecessarily block places that could benefit other students and are therefore not allowed by our course platform (red column marking in front of the course title).

Important – DaF Courses:

Due to limited capacity, it is generally not possible to enroll in multiple courses at levels A1 to B1 at the same time, nor to re-enroll in A1, A2, or B1 courses that have been successfully completed within the last two semesters

In justified exceptional cases, parallel enrollment may be considered after prior consultation with the responsible team. Please contact us by email in advance.

Important – Romance Languages Courses:

Due to limited capacity, it is generally not possible to register for multiple courses at different GeR-levels simultaneously, or to register again for  courses that were successfully completed within the past two semesters.

In justified exceptional cases, parallel enrollment may be considered after prior consultation with the responsible team. Please contact us by email in advance.

In order to enable as many students as possible to participate in our language courses, there are certain guidelines for course repetition.

In principle, courses may not be repeated within 2 semesters. If a course was taken more than 2 semesters ago, it may be taken again as a regular course. This means that you cannot automatically register for a course that you successfully completed last year (indicated by the red column in front of the course title) on the course platform).

If, for certain reasons, you wish to repeat a course within a year, please contact the secretary's office during the registration period. They will check whether there are still places available on the course. If this is the case, your registration will be reserved for the time being. Actual registration only takes place at the end of the registration phase shortly before the start of the semester. This ensures that students who wish to attend the course for the first time are not kept from places that are already taken.

Please note:

• Repeating a course within a year will not improve the original grade. Furthermore, no certificates of attendance will be issued for repeated courses.
• For courses with low enrollment, please note that there must be at least 7 regular registrations for a course to take place. For resource reasons, repeaters do not count as regular participants.

Face-to-face Courses + Online Courses:

If you have been allocated a place on a course as part of the registration process, you will receive an email from your instructor a few days before the course starts with relevant information about the first session. Please check your TU Dortmund University email account regularly.

You must take up your allocated place by attending the first course session. If you are unable to attend the first session, please inform the Foreign Languages Office. If your absence is excused, your place will initially be kept for you; however, you must take it up by attending the following course session at the latest. If you miss the first session without an excuse, you may be removed from the participant list and your place may be offered to a student on the waiting list.

If you are unable to participate in the course, please withdraw via the course platform as soon as possible or email the Foreign Languages Office. This will allow students on the waiting list to take your place.

If you are on the waiting list, you will not receive a notification before the course starts. If a place becomes available, the instructor will contact you by email. Please therefore check your TU Dortmund University email account regularly. If you have registered for a face-to-face course and are on the waiting list, please do not attend the course unless you have been contacted and offered a place.

The course allocation process is completed after two to three course sessions at the latest. After this point, it is no longer possible to join a course from the waiting list.

Please note that the course allocation procedures at the beginning of the semester are separate from the current attendance regulations for our courses. Allocated course places must be duly taken up at the beginning of the semester.

In the allocation of course places, students who are in their last semester of study and who have to present a certain language course as a course achievement will be considered as far as possible in the sense of a hardship regulation. If demand is very high, additional courses may be organized (subject to the availability of funds).

If after the third week of a semester fewer than seven participants remain in the course, we must, unfortunately, cancel the course for financial reasons. Therefore, if you register for a course, please plan to actually complete the course. An excessive cancellation rate in the courses during the semester could disadvantage your fellow students who wish to take part in the whole course and have it accredited in their studies.