Index

Transcript of Records

This document exists since the Bologna reform. It is, so to speak, an excerpt from a student’s records. The Transcript of Records contains detailed information on grades and examination dates.

Tutorial by student

Tutorial with a limited number of participants which is supervised by a student in a higher semester (tutor). Tutorials by students often supplement seminars and lectures and give you the opportunity to ask questions which could not be answered in class.

Tutorial

Tutorials serve to advance your theoretical, methodical and/or practical skills by way of exemplary exercises. Tutorials are usually offered in parallel to lectures to deepen or practise the contents of the lecture.

Two-subject Bachelor’s Degree (Zwei-Fach-Bachelor)

Most of the Bachelor of Arts degree programmes at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology consist of two subjects, a major and a minor subject, which have to be registered on enrolment. You are comparatively free in the combination of subjects. Nevertheless, you should consider how much work you want to take on during your studies. The Student Advice Center will help you with recommendations.

The majority of one-subject Bachelor of Art degree programmes are offered in business and economics at FAU.

https://www.fau.eu/study/prospective-students/degree-programmes/all-degree-programmes/

University semester

The total number of semesters in which you were enrolled at a university. If you change your degree programme, the number of university semesters is continued. Previous semesters in a different degree programme usually do not count towards the number of subject semesters, unless the two degree programmes are similar in content.

UnivIS

UnivIS is short for University Information System. As the name already indicates, it is FAU’s central information system. It contains a directory of all people and institutions at FAU and information on current job offers.

Vice Presidents

The head of the university is the president, who is supported by several vice presidents who are each responsible for a particular area, such as teaching or research. The number of vice presidents is not fixed.

There are currently four vice presidents at FAU. The term of office began on 1 April 2015 and usually lasts for three years.

Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kopp is the Vice President Education, Prof. Dr. Georg Schett is the Vice President Research, Prof. Dr. Katrin M. Möslein is the Vice President Outreach and Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch is the Vice President People.

More information is available on the members of the Executive Board is available on the FAU website.

Video portal/online-lectures

The FAU video portal (www.fau.tv) offers a wide variety of videos of lectures or seminars and other videos relevant to your studies. Over 1400 ‘courses’ are currently online.

The video portal was developed in-house by the Erlangen Regional Computing Centre and can be accessed via a web browser without any additional software. Limited access content can at present only be viewed via the video portal in connection with StudOn.

The freely-accessible videos are usually also available via Apple Podcast.

FAUmail

At FAU, each student receives their own e-mail address. You can use it after activation of your student user ID in IdM. You can access this mailbox using webmail at https://faumail.fau.de (German only) or by using e-mail programmes such as Outlook or Thunderbird.

FAUmail

If you do not want to use this address actively, you can also change the settings to have your e-mails forwarded to another address at the given URL.

ZVS

Central authority for the allocation of study places, now called Foundation for University Admissions.