Categories: Beratungsangebote und Service
Index
Centre for Teacher Education (ZfL)
The Centre for Teacher Education offers information and advice on a range of subjects related to teaching degree programmes at FAU, such as teacher training and professional development for teachers.
ZFL-Website (German)
campo
campo is FAU’s campus management portal, which will link the existing systems mein campus and UnivIS over the next few years.
Currently, campo is used for managing online applications and enrolment (apart from international and Master’s degree applications).
Bridging courses (preparatory courses)
These courses are offered in exceptional cases (for example introduction to a language). More information can be obtained from the Student Advice Center or from the subject advisors for your discipline or degree programme.
c. t. (cum tempore)
This abbreviation can often be found after the times for a seminar or lecture. It refers to the famous ‘academic quarter’. To be more precise: 14:00 c.t. means that the seminar or lecture starts at 14:15. As classes at university generally start ‘c.t.’, the ‘c.t.’ is often left out. See also s.t.
BAföG
Abbreviation for ‘Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz’ (Federal Training Assistance Act). This law governs state funding for students in Germany. In everyday language, the abbreviation BAföG is also used to refer to the funding students receive from the state. Application forms can be obtained from Student Services Erlangen-Nürnberg or downloaded online.
Applications have to be submitted to the Amt für Ausbildungsförderung (Training Assistance Office) in either Erlangen or Nuremberg.
Amt für Ausbildungsförderung
Hofmannstraße 27
91052 Erlangen
Amt für Ausbildungsförderung
Andreij-Sacharow-Platz 1
90403 Nürnberg
Bachelor’s thesis
The final assignment in a Bachelor’s degree programme. As soon as you have received confirmation for starting your Bachelor’s thesis, you have two to three months to write it. In general, the Bachelor’s thesis is about 30 to 40 pages in length.
Bachelor’s degree
A degree that originally comes from the Anglo-American university system and was introduced in Germany as part of the restructuring of the German university system.
The Bachelor’s degree is an undergraduate degree which can be obtained after only six or seven semesters. At FAU, the following Bachelor’s degrees are awarded: the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in the humanities and in economics and the Bachelor of Science (BSc) in natural sciences and engineering. Students of commercial law are awarded the Bachelor of Laws (LLB).
Audimax
Abbreviation for ‘auditorium maximum,’ the largest lecture theatre at the University. FAU’s audimax is located in Bismarckstraße 1, Erlangen and has space for 893 people.
AStA
Abbreviation for ‘Allgemeiner Studierenden-Ausschuss’ (General Students’ Committee). At FAU, there are students’ representatives instead of the AStA.
https://stuve.fau.de/ (German Homepage)
Alumni
Alumni are former students and staff of a university. Note that ‘alumni’ is the plural form, a single former student is called an ‘alumnus’ (male form) or an ‘alumna’ (female form). FAU has a free alumni network for all students and alumni to forge contacts and keep in touch.
The FAU alumni network is a great way for graduates, former exchanges students and former guest researchers to stay in contact with the University.
More information on the activities and events organised for alumni by the Department of Marketing and Communications are available under alumni.