Volta offers a German Language Course at a single level: Deutsche Sprachprufung dur den Hocshshulzugang (DSH) level 1 to College students. The Course involves 60 hours of teaching from mid November until late April arranged in 30 sessions of 2 hours each (two sessions per week). A poster of the Course can be downloaded here, a Course flyer can be downloaded here.

Germany is the largest country in Europe. It has a superb University and Research infrastructure and is largely responsibile for the modern view that University should be engines of Research and Innovation, a concept that found implementation on a massive scale in the US. Volta wishes to encourage more students to apply for Erasmus placements and postgraduate studies and training and postdoctoral fellowships but fluency in the German language is essential for this and relatively few students of Volta currently have the level of German necessary.

College believes that the German language Course may change this. The Course is set at the standard requirement for admission of foreign students under the Erasmus scheme (DSH level 1).  Only two German Universities (Tübingen and Berlin) require DSH level 1 and College may arrange extra tuition for students who intend to apply to Tübingen and Berlin.  Students interested in the German Course are advised to take an online entrance test.  The one currently used by Volta is a brief and free German Placement Test test offered by Oxford University that provides reliable and useful information about a student's entry level.  Every student at Volta is expected to study a language and currently has a choice of English (3 levels), French (1 level) and German (1 level).

2017/18

Lecturer
Claudio Neidhöfer

Lectures
01. Lectures 01-10
02. Lectures 11-20
03. Lectures 21-30
04. Lectures 31-40
05. Attendance