Incoming Exchange Students

The Department of English at Greifswald University takes pleasure in welcoming international students. We highly appreciate operating a diverse number of exchange programmes with universities all over the world. Each year, many exchange students decide to join us for their studies, being a considerable asset to our department. 

Since we want you to be able to fulfill your educational goals and to enjoy your time in “the sunniest region of Germany”, we do our best in helping you to make the most of your stay at the University of Greifswald. 

At a small university rich in tradition, our know-how, experience, and academic environment enable us to teach our disciplines on a solid theoretical basis, on the other hand also taking the practical requirements of our graduates’ later professions into account.
 

As an Erasmus student, you can theoretically take all courses offered by the department. However, we would encourage you to take seminars in literature, cultural studies or linguistics. We do not recommend you take our language skills (Sprachkompetenz Englisch) courses as they are often challenging and have relatively high fail rate. If you are particularly interested in English language courses, you may want to consider integrated courses offered at the C1 or B2 level as part of the course catalog of the university's Language Centre (Sprachenzentrum). Most course would get you 3 ECTS.

In preparation of your learning agreement, please note that:

At German universities, two or three courses are combined in so-called "modules". The exam that determines the number of ECTS points and the grade relates to the module rather than the individual courses. For the information on the credits for the modules, please check the studying regulations (PDF) of our department. The document is only available in German. You can use translation services to read it if needed.

If you are not doing an entire module but just one out of it, the general guidelines are:

• Language skills courses: 3 ECTS = one course + one part of the module exam
• Foundation courses and lectures: 3 ECTS = one course + course exam
• Seminars: 5 - 10 ECTS (depending on the length of the course essay, upon agreement with the lecturer) = one course + course essay

You can find an overview of the courses offered at our department under this in the course catalogue (Vorlesungsverzeichnis), in which you can check the type of courses (foundation courses, lectures, seminars, and language skill courses).