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English/Key Competences

Placement and Registration for English Courses in the Winter Semester 2025/26

  • Course catalogue: Available from 15 September 2025 in PULS
  • Placement test for third-and-higher semester law students
    on 29. and 30. Sept. 2025, 09:00 - 17:00, registration required; Link to registration (NOT FOR FIRST_SEMESTER STUDENTS! in Moodle.UP "Zessko Englisch Anmeldung zum Einstufungstest Englisch der Rechtswissenschaft".
  • Placement test for first-semester law students 
    Date and link for registration for the test in December will be published here on 01 October. Registration required. Please register AFTER  01 Oct. 2025.
  • Placement test for students from all other disciplines - except law students  
    between 01 and 08 Oct., and, for latecomers, on 10., 13, and 17. Oct. All necessary information (link to the test and the practice test, login) will be available on this website from 30 Sept. 2025, 08:00 a.m.
    No registration required.
  • Registration for courses via PULS: As of 01 October 2025 - via PULS only
  • Admission to courses: From 09 Oct. 2025
  • Late registration and late admission: Until 20. Oct. 2025
  • Courses start for students admitted via PULS: Week from 13. Oct 2025
Placement Test

Placement Test Information and Link to the Test

Registration

Course Registration

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/zessko/selbstlernen/sprachentandem/tandemmodelle

Counselling/Advice "Tandem Language Learning" - 3 LP credits / 3 ECTS

English for Natural Sciences
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English for Natural Sciences

English for Law
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English for Law

English for Economics and Business Studies
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English for Economics and Business Studies

English for Academic Purposes
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English for Academic Purposes

English for Social Sciences
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English for Social Sciences

Language Learning Counseling
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Supervised Independent Study

Important Information about Participation in English / Key Competences Courses

  1. Participating in a course is only possible when students have taken a placement test and then registered for and been successfully admitted to the course via PULS (unless you are a member of staff).
  2. Participating in language courses is generally free of cost for students who are enrolled at German universities as well as University of Potsdam exchange students.
  3. Fees for UNIcert exams and DAAD language certificates will be charged in accordance with the Zessko Schedule of Fees (Gebührensatzung des Zessko).

Students in the teacher-training Bachelor degree programme, Erasmus, Master, and PhD students as well as members of staff can be admitted to courses only when the size of the group does not exceed 20 students. Admission to the course then takes place, if possible, in the first week of the lecture period.