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Summer semester 2026

Sign Language

German Sign Language (DGS I)

Provider	ZWEK
	Fedler

Places	Face to face Moodle

Prior knowledge	Not required

Wednesday	16:30 - 19:45

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Arabic

Arabic for beginners (A1)

Provider	Faculty SK + ZWEK
	Ikhlas Schuhmacher

Places	Face to face
	Moodle

Prior knowledge	Not required

Wednesday	14:00 - 17:30

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from Faculty SK and ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

English

English (B1.1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Kaygusuz

Places	Moodle (Online)
	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	English A2

Wednesday	10:00 - 11:30 and
Wednesday	12:00- 13:30

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

English (B2.1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Kaygusuz

Places	Moodle (Online)
	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	English B1.2

Monday	10:00 - 11:30
Monday	12:00 - 13:30

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

English (C1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Mc Carvey

Places	Moodle (Online)
	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	English B2.2

Wednesday	13:00 - 16:15

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

French

Provider	ZWEK
	-

Places	-
	-

Prior knowledge

Day	Time

Start	CW
End	CW

Workload	4 SWS

Unfortunately, this course is no longer offered.

German

German as a foreign language (A1) - group 1

Provider	ZWEK
	Dr Schimanski, Susanne

Places	Face to face (see details below)
	Moodle (Online)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Friday	09:00 - 10:30
-	10:45 - 12:20

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

German as a foreign language (A1) - group 2

Provider	ZWEK
	Dr Schimanski, Susanne

Places	Face to face (see details below)
	Moodle (Online)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Day	14:00 - 15:30
Friday	15:45 - 17:20

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.

German as a foreign language (A2.1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Mr Schicketanz, David

Places	Face to face (see details below) Moodle (Online)

Prior knowledge	German A1

Wednesday	15:00 - 16:30 and 17:00 - 18:30

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

German as a foreign language (B1.1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Mr Kehlenbach, Achim

Places	Face to face (see details below)
	Moodle (Online)

Prior knowledge	German A2.2/B1

Day	14:30 - 16:00 and
Tuesday	16:15 - 17:45

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

German as a foreign language (B2/C1)

Reading, understanding, writing: how to work with specialist texts

Provider	ZWEK
	Mr Kehlenbach, Achim

Places	Face to face
	Moodle

Prior knowledge	German B2.2/C1

Day	18:00 - 19:30
Tuesday	-

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	2 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

German for specific purposes: academic language B2.2 /C1

Provider	ZWEK
	-

Places	Face to face
	Moodle

Prior knowledge	German B2.2/C1

Day	00:00 - 00:00

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	-

This course takes place in the winter semester only.

German for specific purposes: engineering (B2/C1)

Provider	ZWEK
	-

Place	Face to face and Moodle

Prior knowledge	CEFR B2/C1

Friday	00:00 - 00:00

Start	--.
End	--

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

This course takes place in the winter semester only.

Italian

Italian (A1)

Provider	ZWEK
	-

Places	Face to face (see course details below)
	Moodle (Online)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Day	00:00 - 00:00
-

Start	-
End	-

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

Unfortunately, this course is no longer offered.

Japanese

Japanese Intensive A1

Provider	ZWEK
	Megumi Ajima

Place	Face to face (see details below)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Monday	13:00 - 14:30

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	2 SWS

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Registration is not handled through the language course portal but through the ZWEK registration portal.

Japanese (A1.1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Oguro

Places	Moodle (Online)
	Teams (Online)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Monday	8:00 - 9:30
and Wednesday	8:00 - 9:30

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Japanese (A1.2)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Oguro

Places	Moodle
	Teams (Online)

Prior knowledge	Preparatory course

Monday	10:00 -11:30
Wednesday	10:00- 11:30

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Spanish

Spanish (A1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Mahrenholtz

Places	Face to face
	Moodle

Prior knowledge	Not required

Friday -	9:00- 12:30 -

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Faculty WiWi runs its own Spanish programme.
Course details in Moodle

Spanish (A2)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Balazar

Places	Face to face
	Moodle

Prior knowledge	Spanish A1 / preparatory course

Wednesday	9:00 - 12:30

Start	CW 16 2026
End	CW 31 2026

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Faculty WiWi runs its own Spanish programme.
Course details in Moodle

Winter semester 2026/2027

Sign Language

German Sign Language (DGS I)

Provider	ZWEK
	Milena Fedler

Place	Face to face

Prior knowledge	Not required

Thursday	16:15 - 19:45

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Arabic

Arabic for beginners (A2.1)

Provider	Faculty SK + ZWEK
	Ikhlas Schuhmacher

Places	Face to face
	Moodle

Prior knowledge	Not required

Friday	9:00 - 12:00

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from Faculty SK and ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Dutch

Dutch A1 is not offered this semester.

English

English (B1.2)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Kaygusuz, Sinem

Place	Face to face

Prior knowledge	CEFR A2

Wednesday	10:00 - 11:30
Wednesday	12:00 - 13:30

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

English (B2.2)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Kaygusuz, Sinem

Place	Face to face

Prior knowledge	CEFR B1.2

Monday	10:00 - 11:30
and Monday	12:00 - 13:30

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

English (C1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Mc Carvey

Place	Face to face

Prior knowledge	CEFR B2.2

Wednesday and Wednesday	13:00 - 14:30 14:45 - 16:15

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Business English for all faculties (B2)

Provider	ZWEK
	-

Place	Face to face

Prior knowledge	CEFR B2

Day -	Time -

Start	-
End	-

Workload	SWS

This course will not take place this semester.

French

French is not offered this semester.

German

German as a foreign language (A1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Schimanski, Susanne

Place	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Friday	9:00 - 12:30
-	-

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to HSD incomings.
Details in Moodle

German as a foreign language (A1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Schimanski, Susanne

Place	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Friday	14:00 - 17:30

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

German as a foreign language (A2.1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Mr Schicketanz

Place	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	CEFR A1

Wednesday	15:00 - 18:30
-	-

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

German as a foreign language (B1.1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Mr Kehlenbach

Place	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	CEFR A2.2

Day	14:30 - 18:00

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

German as a foreign language (B2/C1)

Reading, understanding, writing: how to work with specialist texts

Provider	ZWEK
	-

Place	-

Prior knowledge	CEFR B2/C1

Day	-

Start	-
End	-

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

This course will not take place this semester.

German for specific purposes: academic language (B2/C1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms König

Place	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	CEFR B2.2/C1

Sat + Sun	9:00 - 15:00 block seminar

Start	17/10/2026
End	8/11/2026

Workload	2 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

German phonetics (B2/ C1)

Provider	ZWEK
	-
Place	-

Prior knowledge	-

Day	-

Start	-
End	-

Workload	-

This course will not take place this semester.

German for specific purposes: engineering (B2/C1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Altinok Küsters, Gülden

Place	Face to face (see course details)

Prior knowledge	CEFR B2

Friday	14:00 - 17:15

Start	CW 42 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to HSD students from the Faculties EI and MV.
Details in Moodle

Italian

Italian (A1)

Provider	ZWEK
	-

Place	-

Prior knowledge	-

-	-
-	-

Start	-
End	-

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

This course will not take place this semester.

Japanese

Japanese Intensive A1

Provider	ZWEK
	Megumi Ajima

Place	Face to face (see details below)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Monday	13:00 - 14:30

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	2 SWS

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Registration is not handled through the language course portal but through the ZWEK registration portal.
Course details as PDF

Japanese (A1.2)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Oguro

Place	Teams (Online)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Monday	8:00 - 9:30
and Wednesday	8:00 - 9:30

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Japanese (A2.1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Oguro

Place	Teams (Online)

Prior knowledge	Preparatory course

Monday	10:00 - 11:30
and Wednesday	10:00 - 11:30

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Spanish

Spanish (A1)

Provider	ZWEK
	Ms Llinás de Mahrenholtz

Place	Face to face (see details)

Prior knowledge	Not required

Friday	09:00 - 12:30

Start	CW 41 2026
End	CW 6 2027

Workload	4 SWS + self-study

As an offer from ZWEK, this course is open to all HSD students.
Course details in Moodle

Registration

Please register using your HSD email address. (prename.surname@study.hs-duesseldorf.de)

To register, click

Information

ZWEK language courses in the winter semester run from 5.10.2026 to 12.2.2027.

Registration is possible from 14.9.2026 (10 a.m) to 27.9.2026, if free places are available. In order to enroll, you need an HSD- Account.

After registration you will receive all important information to participate in your language course in the week (28.9.26- 2.10.26) of the year.

Still questions? You will find many answers to your questions in our FAQ.

Hochschule Düsseldorf

Languages offered

Summer semester 2026

Sign Language

Arabic

English

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Spanish

Winter semester 2026/2027

Sign Language

Arabic

Dutch

English

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Spanish