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Courses Offered in English - Winter Semester 2026/27

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The following lists of courses is only meant as additional help for choosing classes and therefore does not constitute the actual course catalogue. Please always check UnivIS as changes to the course catalogue are NOT automatically included in the list below. The most up to date information about classes can only be found on UnivIS.

 

Please note that some classes have only limited spots for students. You can find the number of spots for a class on the UnivIS entry of the class under “Zusätzliche Informationen” (Additional Information) next to the words “Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl” (Expected Number of Participants).

If a class is fully booked and the lecturer has already informed you that you are not going to be able to participate, please contact the academic advisor of the respective faculty (see page “What Can I Study?” under “Questions about course equivalency or syllabi”) to find an alternative class as soon as possible. The International Office is not able to guarantee you a spot in every class.

Interdisciplinary & Practically Oriented Classes

Fancy sociology: Sports as a success factor for organizations
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Roland Back, Akademischer Oberrat

Please note that the class is an interdisciplinary offer, spanning bridges between economics, business administration, sociology and communication sciences.

You can find a course description in English here.(186.4 KB, 2 pages)

Social Sciences, Economics & Business Administration

Some courses taught in English are on the graduate level. However, international undergraduate students can be admitted to these classes if they fulfill the necessary prerequisites in the relevant field.
Undergraduate students are thus advised to contact the Instructors beforehand to discuss whether they can participate. Contact details can be found via http://univis.uni-bamberg.de.

 

Bachelor's level:

Case Studies in International Management
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS 
Instructor: Julia Lang, M.Sc., Felix Mantei, M.Sc., Prof. Dr. Matthias Muck, Prof. Dr. Rachel Shinnar

Strategy and Competition
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: N.N.

Global Marketing
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: N.N.

Strategic Management Accounting and Sustainability
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Frank Schiemann

Games, Information, and Algorithms
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Florian Herold

Algorithms for Economics and Politics and Economics and Politics of Algorithms
Lecture, 4 hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Florian Herold

Economics of (Sustainable) Cities
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS [Will be held in German if only German speaking students attend]
Instructor: Prof Dr Wolfgang Dauth

Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
Lecture, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Benjamin Jungmann

Current Topics in Growth, Development and Sustainability
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Benjamin Jungmann

Theory and Politics of European Economic Integration
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Ehsan Vallizadeh

 

 

Master's level:


Advanced Mathematical Methods
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Anne Leucht

Empirical Data Analysis in Finance
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Thomas Schmidl

Designing a Life with Purpose
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: N.N.

Intercultural challenges in customer and account management
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: N.N.

Digitization Finance and FinTechs
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Andreas Oehler, Dr Matthias Horn, M.Sc., Charlotte Neuss, M.Sc.

Research Seminar on International Innovation Strategies
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr rer pol Michael Kolloch

Corporate Strategy and Growth
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Martin Friesl

Qualitative methodology in strategy and organization research
Seminar, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Christoph Brielmaier, M.Sc., Prof Dr Martin Friesl

Sustainability and Responsibility in Management
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Björn Ivens

Change Management
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Maike Andresen

Leadership and Management Development
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Maike Andresen

The Future of Work
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Maike Andresen

Exploring Firms Sustainability Practices across the EU: Challenges and Solutions
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Marcel Papert

Research Seminar Management Accounting and Sustainability
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Frank Schiemann

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Frank Schiemann

Advanced Macroeconomics
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Christian Proaño

Advanced Time Series Methods for Macroeconomic Analysis
Lecture, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Christian Proaño

Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics and International Finance
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Benjamin Jungmann

Topics in Gender Economics
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Xanthi Tsoukli

Advanced Microeconomics
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Marco Sahm

Political Economics
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Florian Herold

Topics in Economic Theory and Applications to European Policy
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: PD Dr Christoph March

Public Economic Theory
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Marco Sahm

Financial Engineering and Systemic Risk
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Mishael Milakovic, PhD

Complexity and Distribution in Economics
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Mishael Milakovic, PhD

Seminar on Quantitative Economic Policy
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Frank Westerhoff

Financial Market Dynamics
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Frank Westerhoff

Integration of refugees and social stratification
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Yuliya Kosyakova
 

Business English 1
Language exercise, 4 hrs per week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: see on UnivIS

Business English 2
Language exercise, 4 hrs per week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: see on UnivIS

Business English 3
Language exercise, 4 hrs per week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: see on UnivIS

Business English 5
Language exercise, 4 hrs per week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: see on UnivIS

Bachelor's level:

Foreign Policy
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Julian Apel, M.A.

International Institutions
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Anja Menzel

How Parties Compete: From Voter Choice to Government Formation
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, 9 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Alexander Herzog

"Democratic Backsliding - A Worldwide Phenomenon"
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 or 6 ECTS
Instructor: Micaela Grossmann, M.A.

Explaining the Success of Challenger Parties: Demand- and Supply-Side Perspectives
Seminar, 3 Hrs per Week, 9 ECTS
Instructor: David Beck

Philosophy of AI
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Benjamin Hofmann

Infrastructures of the digital world 
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Jon Meyer, M.A. 
 

Master's level:

AI-Based Analysis of Parliamentary Data
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Alexander Herzog

Parties, Institutions and Political Competition
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Ulrich Sieberer

Argumentation for Political Science
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Johannes Marx

Research Design and Causal Inference in Political Science
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Ulrich Sieberer, Dr Alexander Herzog

Theories of Democratic Politics
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Simon Scheller, Akademischer Oberrat

Warfare and Welfare: How War Influences Social Policy
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Carina Schmitt

Global Challenges for Public Policy
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Carina Schmitt

Research Design and Causal Inference in Political Science
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Ulrich Sieberer, Dr Alexander Herzog

Workshop Introduction to R
Seminar, 1 Hr per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Alexander Herzog

Modeling Complex Systems
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Johannes Marx
 

Some courses taught in English are on the graduate level. However, foreign undergrads can be admitted to these classes if they have the necessary prerequisites in the relevant field. Undergraduate students are thus advised to contact the Instructors beforehand to discuss whether or not they can participate. Contact details can be found via http://univis.uni-bamberg.de

Bachelor's level:

Economics of (Sustainable) cities
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 5 ECTS [Will be held in German if only German speaking students attend]
Instructor: Prof Dr Wolfgang Dauth


Inequalities in Couples
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Michaela Dreier, M.A.


Master's level:

Philosophy of Science
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dipl.-Soz. Susann Sachse-Thürer

Art and Society: Competing Sociological Patterns
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Victoria von Groddeck

Comparing Theories: Neo-Feudalism
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Jakob Wiesinger

Theorizing Sustainability
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified [Will be held in German if only German speaking students attend]
Instructor: Dr Victoria von Groddeck

Advanced Linear Regression Analysis
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Prof h.c. Michael Gebel

Cross-Sectional Data Analysis in Public Health
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Chen-Hao Hsu

Applied Panel Data Analysis
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Prof h.c. Michael Gebel, Dr rer pol Jaqueline Kroh

Research Design
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Prof h.c. Michael Gebel, Daniel Zeddel, M.A.

Methods in Epidemiology and Demography
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Henriette Engelhardt-Wölfler

Social Inequalities in the Life Course
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Sandra Jaworeck

Gender Inequality Over the Life Course
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Michaela Dreier, M.A.

Social Policy from a life course perspective
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Katja Möhring

Mechanisms of Educational Inequality
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Steffen Schindler

Returns to Education: From School to Work
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Steffen Schindler

Work, Health and Society: Precarious Employment, Job Insecurity and Health
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Marvin Reuter

Environment and Health
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Rasmus Hoffmann

Integration of refugees and social stratification
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Yuliya Kosyakova

Racism and xenophobia
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Anna Berthold

Debating Migration and Borders
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Daniel Drewski

Communication, Media and Publics
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Isabel Kusche

Technology and Digital Communication
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Isabel Kusche

Human Resource Management and Labour Studies
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Franziska Ganesch

Health Economics
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Frikkie Booysen
 

ESPS, Political Science
Undergraduate and graduate exercise, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Donald Watson

ESPS, Social Science
Undergraduate and graduate exercise, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Donald Watson

Master's level:

Causal Machine Learning
Lecture, 3 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Angelina Hammon

Introduction to Econometrics
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Angelina Hammon

Computationally Intensive Techniques / Monte Carlo Methods
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Silvia Förtsch

Statistical Analysis of Incomplete Data
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Florian Meinfelder

Surey Sampling Theory
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTs not specified
Instructor: Dr Florian Meinfelder
 

Information Systems & Applied Computer Sciences

The following modules are offered in English by default or on demand. Note that there are also other modules available which are delivered in German but where the exam can be taken in English.
More information and further courses can be found in the module handbook(3.3 MB, 280 pages) (see pp. 28 - 33 for course taught in English on demand).
Contact details can also be found via http://univis.uni-bamberg.de

Applied Computer Science

Bachelor's  & Master's level:

Frontier Topics in AI and Philosophy (Tutorial) for Informatik Students
Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Andreas Vestrucci

Deep Learning
Lecture, Hrs not specified, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Christian Ledig

Advanced Deep Learning
Lecture, Hrs not specified, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Shyam Rai

Computational Analysis of Sounds and Music
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Jakob Abeßer


Bachelor's level:

Computational Philosophy
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: N.N.


Master's level:

Advanced Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Fabian Beck

Masterseminar Explainable Machine Learning
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Christian Ledig

Reinforcement Learning
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Stefan Ultes

Master Semianr Conversational AI
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Laetitia Hilgendorf, Prof Dr Stefan Ultes

Project Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
Project, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: N.N.

Societal Impacts of Language Technology
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Sabine Weber

Probabilistic Grphical Models for Natural Language Processing
Lecture, 4 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Sean Papay

Large Language Models for Natural Language Understanding
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Roman Klinger

Master Seminar User Experience and Design
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Patrick Tobias Fischer

 

Computer Science

Bachelor's & Master's level:

Seminar Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Gerald Lüttgen

Tree Decompositions, Algorithms and Games
Lecture, 3 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Isolde Adler

 

Bachelor's level:

Modal and Temporal Logic
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified [Will be held in German if only German speaking students attend]
Instructor: N.N.

Foundations of Reliable Software
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Gerald Lüttgen

Software Engineering Lab
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Matthias Galster

Computergraphics and Animation
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: N.N.

Discrete modelling
Lecture, 4 Hrs per Week, 9 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Isolde Adler


Master's level:

Reliable Distributed Systems
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Tobias Distler

Introduction to Differential Privacy
Lecture/Exercise, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Christian Graf

Project Security and Privacy
Project Seminar, 6 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Dominik Herrmann

Applied Concurrency Theory
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Gerald Lüttgen

Master Project Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Project Seminar, 4 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Kristina Joksimovic

Master Project Mobile Software Systems
Project, 4 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Leonie Ackermann, M.Sc.

Virtualisation
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Michael Engel

Master-Seminar Data Engineering
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Maximilian Schüle

Evidence-based Software Engineering
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Matthias Galster

Networked Embedded Systems
Lecture/Exercise, 4 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Florian Klingler

Masterprojekt Computational Humanities
Project, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Marcello Lussana

Reinforcement Learning
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Stefan Ultes

 


Information Systems

Bachelor's & Master's level:

Applied Data Analytics and Machine Learning in R
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Thorsten Staake

 

Bachelor's level:

Digital Business
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Thomas Kude, Stefanie Ulschmid, M.Sc.

Fundamentals of IISM
Lecture, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Stefanie Badmann, M.Sc., Prof Dr Thomas Kude

ISPL-Sem-B: Bachelor Seminar
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Stefanie Badmann, M.Sc., Prof Dr Thomas Kude

Project: AI Engineering in Companies
Project, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Milad Mirbabaie

Project: Human AI Collaboration
Project: 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Milad Mirbabaie

 

Master's level:

Text as Data in Computational Social Science: A Replication Lab
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS [Will be held in German if only German speaking students attend]
Instructor: Prof Dr Mateusz Dolata

Global Collaboration and Digital Social Innovation
Project, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Daniel Beimborn

Digital platforms in industries and Society
Lecture, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Thomas Kude

Research Project Computational Intensive Theorizing
Project, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Thomas Kude, Stefanie Ulschmid, M.Sc., Stefanie Badmann, M.Sc.

ISPL-Sem-M: Master Seminar
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Thomas Kude, Stefanie Ulschmid, M.Sc.

Researchproject: Digital Society and AI-based Systems
Project, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Milad Mirbabaie

Researchproject: Digital Transformation and AI-based Systems
Project, 4 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Milad Mirbabaie

Digital Life
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Milad Mirbabaie

Virtualization
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Michael Engel
 

IT English – Security
Undergraduate/graduate exercise, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Donald Watson

IT English – Debating Legal Issues
Undergraduate/graduate exercise, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Donald Watson

Human Sciences & Education

Learning Environments in Early Childhood Education: Home learning environments and family support
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTs not specified
Instructor: Dr Hande Erdem Möbius

Perspectives on Empirical Educational Research
Seminar, 1 Hr per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Maximilian Pfost, Prof Dr Claus H. Carstensen, Prof Dr Steffen Schindler

Bachelor's level:

Perception
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Claus-Christian Carbon, M.A.

Theory and Application
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Claus-Christian Carbon, M.A.

Mind and Machine: Psychology Meets AI
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: N.N.

The impact of language on our brains and thoughts
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Louisa Richter

VHB-Seminar "The R and RStudio Environment: Handling, Visualisation and Communication of Data in Science"
Seminar, Hrs not specified, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Judith Volmer

Interpersonal Perception
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Dr Robert Körner


Master's level:

VHB-Seminar "Performance Management in Teams (ProMES)"
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Judith Volmer
 

Humanities

Foundations of Digital History
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Werner Scheltjens

Introduction to historical data Analysis
Seminar/exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Werner Scheltjens
 

Bachelor's level:

How much of an attitude should a Company communicate
Action Learning, 2 Hrs per Week, 5 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Mark Derbacher

Layout with InDesign: General Interest Magazines
Action Learning, 2 Hrs per Week, 5 ECTS
Instructor: Holger Müller

Strategic Communication and Crisis Leadership. Building Reputation, Managing Stakeholds, and Communicating Under Pressure
Action Learning, 2 Hrs per Week, 5 ECTS
Instructor: Thorsten Vogt

Audio Drama
Action Learning, 2 Hrs per Week, 5 ECTS
Instructor: Holger Müller

Frieda FM: On Air
Action Learning, 2 Hrs per Week, 5 ECTS
Instructor: Holger Müller

Communicating sustainability: Insights into various professional fields
Project, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Liane Rothenberger

Intercultural Communication and the Globalization of Media Systems 
Project, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS [Will be held in German if only German speaking students attend]
Instructor: PD Dr habil Gabriele Mehling


Master's level:

Crisis preparedness and crisis communication
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 5 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Liane Rothenberger

Antonio Gramsci e gli studi iranici: prospettive dai Quaderni del carcere 
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified, !! LA LINGUA D'INSEGNAMENTO È ITALIANO !!
Instructor: Prof Dr Christoph U. Werner

A History of the Modern Middle East
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 4 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Christoph U. Werner

Reading Shahab Ahmed's What is Islam?
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Christoph Herzog

The Philosophy of AI
Block Seminar, Hrs not specified, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Marko Fuchs

For students of English/American Studies, there is a wide range of interesting courses in English. Since almost all courses on undergraduate as well as graduate level are taught in English, the individual courses offered are not listed here.
Please note that in order to take part in seminars within the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language it is necessary to have already acquired a solid knowledge of the basics of language pedagogy. Moreover, it is necessary to contact the instructor one week before the beginning of the semester at the latest.

You can find each chair's courses under the following links on Univis. 

To see which courses are ultimately taught in English, you have to look for the term "Englischsprachig" in the upper part of the course description. Otherwise, the course descriptions themselves (further down the page, "Inhalt") are also usually written in the respective course language.

 

"What's going on?"
Miscellaneous, 2 Hrs per Week, 0 ECTS
Instructor: Michaela Hilbert, M.A., Laura Murphy

Media Session "Hotels, Motels, and Mobile Homes on Screen"
Miscellaneous, 3 Hrs per Week, 0 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Nicole K. Konopka

Shakespeare Reading Group
Miscellaneous, 2 Hrs per Week, 0 ECTS
Instructor: N.N.

Bamberg University English Drama Group
Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 3 ECTS
Instructor: Leo Wersal, Magdalena Oswald

Introduction to English Linguistics
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Valentin Werner

Language and identity
Seminar/Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 to 8 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Katharina Beuter, Akademische Oberrätin

Language, Race, and Ethnicity
Seminar/Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 to 8 ECTS
Instructor: Veronika Kilian, M.A.

Introduction to Multimodal Inter(Action) Analysis: exploring communication in social contexts (Focus on New Zealand)
Seminar/Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 to 6 ECTS
Instructor: N.N.

Studying (your) foreign Accent
Seminar/Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 to 8 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Lukas Sönning

Using Corpora and AI to improve your writing skills
Seminar/Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 to 8 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Julia Schlüter

English Linguistics Research Seminar
Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Valentin Werner, Prof Dr Julia Schlüter, Prof Dr Gabriele Knappe

English Etymology
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Maria Flaksman, PhD

Pop Cultural Linguistics
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Valentin Werner

The History of English Idioms
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 8 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Gabriele Knappe

Methods and Theories of Linguistics
Exercise, 1 Hr per Week, 1 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Julia Schlüter, Dr Fabian Vetter

English Phonetics and Phonology
Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Julia Schlüter, Lea Bracke, M.A.

Language and Society
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 or 4 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Valentin Werner

The Roots of English
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 or 4 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Gabriele Knappe

Workshop Academic Research
Tutorial, Hrs not specified, 0 ECTS
Instructor: Viktor Biersack

Affect and Emotion in Melodrama
Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Sarah Busch

British Young Adult Literature
Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Allison Lemley

Early Modern Literature and Culture
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified
Instructor: Prof Dr Susanne Gruß (Exchange Students should contact the lecturer)

Finding a Voice: Women's Writing from the Long 19th to the Early 20th Century
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, ECTS not specified 
Instructor: Sarah Busch (Exchange Students should contact the lecturer)

American Literature I (Realism - Postmodernism)
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 or 4 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Christine Gerhardt

How to Write a Term Paper / Betreuungsübung Konopka
Exercise/Block Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Nicole K. Konopka

Key Texts in Literary Theory 
Exercise, 1 Hr per Week, 1 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Nicole K. Konopka

Non-Human Narrators in American Literature
Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 or 4 ECTS
Instructor: Katharine Wilson, M.A.

Writing in the Humanities
Exercise/Block Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 ECTS
Instructor: Yıldız Aşar, M.A.

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 or 8 ECTS
Instructor: Allison Lemley, Dr Nicole K. Konopka (Exchange Students should contact the lecturer)

Immigrants in Britain
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Allison Lemley

Playing Indoors: From Boy Actors to Candlelit Tragedy
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Susanne Gruß (Exchange Students should contact the lecturer)

In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Nicole K. Konopka

"This Double-Conciousness": African American and Afro German Literature and Culture
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Mareike Spychala

The Conflict in Northern Ireland and Its Portrayal in Irish Literature, 1910-2010
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Dr Mario Ebest

Moby Dick
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 4 to 8 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Christine Gerhardt (Exchange Students should contact the lecturer)

The Future Is Indigenous: Stories from across Turtle Island
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 4 to 8 ECTS
Instructor: PDr Johanna Feier (Exchange Students should contact the lecturer)

From Wilderness to Warhol: American Art and the National Imagination
Lecture, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 or 4 ECTS
Instructor: PD Dr Georgiana Banita

Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies
Exercise, 1 Hr per Week, 1 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Pascal Fischer

Technology and Culture
Exercise, 2 Hrs per Week, 2 ECTS
Instructor: Prof Dr Pascal Fischer

British Film and National Identity
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: PD Dr Beatrix Hesse

Secret America: Intelligence, Secrecy, and Power
Seminar, 2 Hrs per Week, 6 ECTS
Instructor: Simone Linz
 

English Courses Offered by the Language Centre (Sprachenzentrum)

The Language Center has developed a range of English courses taught by various native speakers. More information can be found by contacting Catherine Irvine (catherine.irvine[at]uni-bamberg.de) or in UnivIs: http://univis.uni-bamberg.de/

The Anglistik Einstufungstest (English Placement Test) is compulsory for students of English Studies/American Studies or English (Bachelor's major/minor, Master, all teacher training programms, vocational/social pedagogy, economics and business education).

The test will take place in face-to-face attendance in the Winter Semester 2026/2027: MG1/00.04, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 5 October 2026

A registration for the placement test is not required in advance! The test does not apply to Business English (see Placement Test for English HaF instead)!

The placement test serves as an orientation for the student and the department of English and American Studies about the level of the student's English skills in comparison with the other first-year students. It is compulsory for all, but has purely diagnostic purposes and does not lead to exclusion from the programme.

The test takes 90 minutes and usually takes place in the week before the start of the lecture period. It is a written test consisting of multiple-choice questions on vocabulary, grammar and text comprehension.

 

The HaF (Hörer aller Fakultäten = students of all faculties) Placement Test is not a substitute or equivalent of the Anglistik Einstufungstest.

To attend HaF English classes (e.g. Business English or IT English), students must take an obligatory placement test at the beginning of the semester. This helps us to place students in the correct course level. The placement test evaluates grammar, reading, listening and vocabulary, and must be completed before FlexNow course registration closes. Students who do not take the test may be unable to attend English courses this semester.

You will receive an email with more information about access to the test when FlexNow registration for the test has closed.
The results of the test are valid for four semesters.
If you have questions about the HaF placement test, please contact catherine.irvine[at]uni-bamberg.de for more information.

Test Results:
No certificate will be issued for the completion of the HaF placement test, nor can the test be “passed” or “failed”; it is purely for diagnostic purposes. You will receive an email with your test results with a score out of 92 and the CEFR level (B1, B2 etc.) you should select for your course(s). If you have taken the test once or have attended a course in general English, you do not have to retake the placement test.
If you have taken the Anglistik Einstufungstest (see above), you do not have to take this placement test.

Description of the HaF Placement Test:
There are 100 questions in the test. There are grammar and vocabulary questions as well as reading comprehension questions which become more difficult in the later parts of the test. There are also questions to test listening comprehension. The time limit for the placement test is 60 minutes, but students can submit the test earlier if they have finished.

Englisch: Sprachpraxis B1: Preparing for B1 (Teil 1)
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Catherine Irvine

Englisch: Sprachpraxis B2: Academic Speaking
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Catherine Irvine

Englisch: Sprachpraxis B2: Academic Writing
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Catherine Irvine

Englisch: Sprachpraxis B2: Preparing for B2 (Teil 1)
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Catherine Irvine

Englisch: Sprachpraxis C1: Current Events - Discussion and Analysis
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Catherine Irvine

Englisch: Sprachpraxis C1: Preparing for C1 (Teil 2)
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Catherine Irvine

Englisch: Sprachpraxis C1: Presenting Research in English
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Donald Watson

Englisch: Sprachpraxis C1: Reading Research Articles in English
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Donald Watson

Englisch: Sprachpraxis C1: Writing Bachelors/Masters Theses in English
Language Practice, 2 hrs per week, 3 ECTS
Lecturer: Donald Watson

German Courses Offered by the Language Centre (Sprachenzentrum)

The Language Centre's DaF (German as foreign language) offer is aimed at exchange students who are spending one or two semesters in Bamberg, as well as international students who are enrolled in a degree programme at the University of Bamberg. More information can be found by contacting Oliver Geike (oliver.geike[at]uni-bamberg.de) or in UnivIs: http://univis.uni-bamberg.de/

At beginner level, language courses can be taken from B1 onwards; the offer mainly includes proficiency courses with different focuses such as grammar, phonetics, academic writing, etc.

You can find the current list of courses offered by the Sprachenzentrum here.

Please Note:

  • Currently all seminars are scheduled in face-to-face format.
  • All courses are linked to Univis. Those courses that take place at the VHB (Virtual University of Bavaria): Direct links are not possible here, which is why links are provided to the DaF overview page of the VHB. There, you will find the respective course by searching for its name in the browser (Ctrl+F).
  • For some demos of the VHB courses, you will need to register as a guest in order to view them.
  • Please do not forget to register in Flexnow in due time for the respective seminar as well as later for its exam! For organizational and equality reasons, no exceptions will be made and no deadlines will be extended. The deadlines will be communicated to you in the Virtual Campus of the respective seminars.

Glossary

  • FlexNow - is a system for managing your academic records. In order for you to be awarded credit points for successfully completed courses, your grade will have to be entered into this program. You will be registered in the system after your arrival to Bamberg.
  • UnivIS – Bamberg university’s information system
  • Undergraduate – study courses for Bachelor level
  • Graduate – study courses for Master level
  • TBA – to be announced
  • hrs / SWS – hours
  • N.N. - No Name (name of instructor will be announced later)