Courses in German

(0.7 SWS / 1 CP)

For students at the beginning of their studies, academic writing may seem complex and challenging. This one-day workshop introduces students of all faculties to academic writing at university, helping them avoid common beginners’ mistakes.

(0,7 SWS / 1 CP)

The best ideas often become meaningless if they are communicated in texts with numerous punctuation or spelling errors. In this one-day introductory course, you will refresh your knowledge of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar, so that you will be able to apply these basic skills in order to optimize reports, theses, or cover letters.

(0,7 SWS / 1 CP)

What is journalistic style? What are the components of a news report or news reportage? How does one convey the original “soundtrack”? This one-day course introduces different journalistic text types and is a good preparation for the follow-up semester course "Journalistic Writing".

(0,7 SWS / 0 CP)

This one-day face-to-face workshop helps participants understand what is involved in “good” scientific communication. The first part of the workshop tackles questions such as “How important are honesty and objectivity in scientific communication?”, and “How has research writing been affected by new ways of communication and genres?”In the second part, we will discuss science journal texts to pinpoint elements of language, style, and form that effectively report science to the general public.

(2 SWS / 4 CP)

This semester course is designed to equip students of all faculties with strategies to handle all steps in the writing process – from literature research and pre-writing to revision. Using practical exercises, the course will help you adopt a detail-focused approach to writing that will boost your thesis writing skills.

(2 SWS / 4 CP)

In this semester course, you will work on your own and other authors’ texts and creatively explore different text types – essays, application letters, and PR texts – in order to improve your proofreading and editing skills. This training will equip you with useful study and career skills.

(2 SWS / 4 CP)

This practice-oriented semester course trains key skills of journalistic writing and is offered in partnership with the editorial board of the Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten. In this course, you will write a news story on a topic of your choice whilst being supported throughout the process – from brainstorming, research, and outlining to the finished news story. Previous attendance of the introductory course “Journalism” or previous writing experience is recommended.

(2 SWS / 4 CP)

This practice-oriented semester course conveys key skills required when writing for public relations and is offered in partnership with the marketing and communications department of the city of Aachen. Whilst being supported every step of the way, you will write various PR texts – press releases, newsletters, texts for a homepage, and a flyer – with the aim of developing a campaign on a topic of your choice. Previous writing experience is recommended.
 

(1,3 SWS / 3 CP)

How do you generate ideas? How do you transform ideas into texts? What role does creativity play? This two-day workshop focuses on the "creative" process. You will train various prewriting strategies to boost your creativity and write a selection of short texts, including a portrait, an essay, a scene, a blurb, a character description, a story, and more.

(1,3 SWS / 3 CP)

Held at an exciting venue outside of the university, this three-day workshop at the museum will introduce you to new approaches to writing. It will train strategies to boost your creativity and stimulate you to write innovative texts. Inspired by the diverse artworks on display, you will work on individual and collaborative texts and reflect on your and others’ intense writing experiences, thereby professionalizing writing strategies.

(2 SWS / 4 CP)

This semester course will equip you with the literary tools required to draft, write, and polish stories, essays, scenes, and poems. Previous attendance of the workshops “Creative Writing I” or “Creative Writing I (at the museum)” is recommended.

(2 SWS / 6 CP)

Open on invitation or application only, this multi-semester course trains advanced students who have distinguished themselves in other Writing Center courses. Focusing on your own and other participants’ evolving texts, you will optimize your skills as writers, proofreaders, editors, and peer reviewers.

(1,3 SWS / 1 CP)

How do you write feed text for social media? How do you build a story that people will watch until the end? And what possibilities are there for telling stories on Instagram? - At the two-day workshop, Marie Ludwig, journalist and digital format developer at WDR/funk, will show how storytelling on social media works.
You can find more information about the event here.

(2 SWS / 3 CP)

These four workshops and the accompanying individual writing consultations will equip prospective engineers with relevant writing, study and career skills. Working with discipline-specific sample texts in a variety of writing and editing exercises, you will train how to cite accurately and how to structure, formulate, and optimize specialist texts. The feedback in the individual writing consultations will help you transfer your new insights to project-related texts and theses.

(2 SWS / 3 CP)

These four workshops and the accompanying individual writing consultations will equip prospective engineers with relevant writing, study, and career skills. Working with discipline-specific sample texts in a variety of writing and editing exercises, you will train how to cite accurately and how to structure, formulate, and optimize specialist texts. The feedback in the individual writing consultations will help you transfer your new insights to project-related texts and theses.

(1.3 SWS)

Good research should be well communicated because the quality of your academic texts goes hand in hand with their “publishability”. Designed for members of the CDS and, in particular, for doctoral candidates at the beginning of their doctoral studies, this two-day workshop explores the principles of academic writing in detail. You will learn to follow guidelines on ethical writing and to write reader-focused and engaging texts; you will also gain insights into publishing your research, for example in grant applications, PR, and journalistic texts.