#semester programme
The University of Salzburg offers many activities you can take part in to make your semester more fun. From sports, music and languages to interesting ways to acquire knowledge and skills – the options are varied! Below you can find a selection of them. Take a look and you may find just the right activity to make the most of your semester!
USI
We LOVE USI, the University’s sport institute. Whether it’s ball sports, dance, endurance sport or fitness – each semester USI offers a great selection of inexpensive sport courses for students. We’ve already tried loads of them, and they have really enriched our time at university. In the USI programme you’ll find weekly courses but also some which take place over the course of a weekend and can become a real group experience! Since the offer is primarily for students, you can also meet nice people from other departments.
USI also offers its own gym in the South of Salzburg with student-friendly prices AND and it even comes with a sauna! Check it out, and enjoy the beautiful mountain views while running on the treadmill!
Here you can find the link to the USI website (incl. their semester programme).
Start Up & Career Center
The Career Center is the place for you if you’re looking for additional courses that can support your personal development and aid you in your professional life. Work-experienced lecturers teach you valuable skills for your time after uni. The courses are very varied. There are courses about vision boards, successful salary negotiations and different personality types.
Besides the Career Center, there is also the startupSchool. Its team offers free guidance and support for founding one’s own start-up. The idea doesn’t have to be completely thought through – a lot is possible!
Here you can find all offers:
Sprachenzentrum (Language Centre)
Speaking different languages can be an important skill in one’s (professional) life. Besides that, being able to converse in different languages can be truly enriching. The Language Centre at the University of Salzburg offers courses for 12 different languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and Swedish.
Besides general language courses, it also offers special ones, such as courses in Business German and English.
If you want to start learning a completely new language, the winter term is the preferable time to do so, as a lot of advanced language courses happen in the summer term. A test (without any pressure and just for your own reference) will help determine your language level and assign you to the right course, in case you want to improve already existing language skills.
Courses at the Language Centre are significantly cheaper for University of Salzburg students – a great chance to improve one’s language skills!
Choir & orchestra
The University of Salzburg has its own choir as well as an orchestra. A great offer for musical students! Both welcome new members and offer:
- a warm and welcoming community
- the opportunity to be part of a club
- a varied selection of music
- the option for your participation to count as a free elective (please contact choir/orchestra for more info)
Making music together can be a truly enriching experience. If you don’t want to sing or play an instrument yourself, both the choir and the orchestra also organise great concerts!
Supplementary study programmes and specialisation programmes
Supplementary study programmes are a great way to align your studies at university with your personal interests and expand your skill set.
The University of Salzburg offers 22 (!) of them. Upon completion, students receive a certificate and, depending on the respective curricula, the Supplementary study programmes and specialisation programmes can even be used as elective courses.
The registration takes place via PLUSonline (Course Offerings > Other Studies > Cross-Faculty Teaching)
Supplementary study programmes and specialisation programmes can broaden your horizon and improve your CV. Amazing!
The supplementary study programmes and specialisation programmes range across a wide variety of topics. Depending on your personal interests, there is something for everyone!
The supplementary study programmes can roughly be grouped into five subject clusters: Digital World; Society, Politics and Environment; Teaching and Learning; Personal Development and Communication; Language, Arts and Culture.
Here is a list of all available supplementary study programmes and specialisation programmes:
- Applied Statistics and Data Analysis
- Asia-Pacific Studies
- Career Management Initiative
- Climate Change and Sustainability
- Computer Skills for Everyone
- Cultural Management & Cultural Production
- Digital Media
- Early Childhood Education
- Ethics
- European Union Studies
- Gender, Diversity and Equality
- Geoinformation – Digital Earth
- German as a Foreign Language / German as a Second Language (DaF / DaZ)
- Global Studies
- Interdisciplinary Medieval and Early Modern Studies with a Focus on Digital Humanities
- Languages
- Migration Studies
- Movement in Learning
- Multilingualism
- Poverty and Social Exclusion
- Rhetoric
- The Arts: Practice and Mediation