VGUH – Courses
Winter Semester 2024/2025
Duration: 30/9/2024 - 31/1/2025
Examination weeks: 16/9 – 4/10/2024, 7/10 – 25/10/2024, 20/1 – 6/2/2025
Days without lessons in the winter semester:
31/10 + 1/11/2024 autonomously free + All Saints Day
20/12/2024 – 7/1/2025 Christmas Holidays + autonomously free
Costs: Information leaflet in German, Information leaflet in English
Important information: On the learning platform https://moodle.vguh.at/lms you will find additional information for self-study and exercise examples. (Log-in with the access data of your VGUH student portal account).
Summer semester 2025
Duration: 26/2 - 27/6/2025
Examination weeks: 17/2 - 28/2/2025, 17/3 - 28/3/2025, 16/6 - 2/7/2025
Days without lessons in the summer semester:
19/3/2025 St. Joseph's Day
14/4 - 25/4/2025 Easter holidays
1/5/2025 National holiday
29/5 + 30/5/2025 Ascension of Christ + autonomously free
9/6 + 10/6/2025 Pentecost
19/6 + 20/6/2025 Corpus Christi + autonomously free
Course system
The VGUH offers courses in
- German as a foreign language to prepare students for the supplementary examination in German:
- There are three levels. You will be placed in the appropriate level via a placement test or on the basis of your course grades at the VGUH.
- Students of the levels I, II, III who only want to take the supplementary examination in German have to attend two courses (basic course with 12 lessons (hours) per week and elective course with 3 lessons (hours) per week). They have to attend these two courses separately but both courses have to be at the same level.
- You must get a pass grade in both the basic and the elective course to pass the semester.
- Students of the level III with prescribed examinations in other subjects will only have to take a basic course in German (12 lessons (hours) per week) and subject courses.
Students of the University of Music and Performing Arts only have to complete a basic German course (12 lessons (hours) per week).
- Subject courses to prepare students for supplementary examinations: biology, chemistry, English, geography, history, mathematics, physics (language of instruction: German)
You can attend subject courses as from German level III; English (two-semester) is possible as from German level II.
If you only have to take supplementary examinations in subjects other than German or English, you will only have to attend subject courses.
For a semester to be graded positively an attendance rate of 80% in all courses is required!
Course contents
The course contents and target skills are defined in the teaching and learning contents:
- German Level I (72.1 KB)
- German Level II (67.5 KB)
- German Level III (67.4 KB)
- German for Musicians B1 + B2
- English (64.7 KB)
- History
- Geography (64.4 KB)
- Mathematics (62.5 KB)
- Physics (62.7 KB)
- Biology (62.5 KB)
- Chemistry (61.8 KB)
- Italian
