Für Mitarbeitende: Englisch, Deutsch und IK

The English courses for employees provide the opportunity to practice and improve your communicative skills in various settings in the world of work, helping you to handle tasks in English at the workplace calmly and confidently. The courses are graded according to level. Depending on the group, topics include grammar revision, building office and administrative vocabulary, practicing typical situations such as writing emails, giving advice, and communicating with students and staff. In addition, language fluency is improved through discussions and role-playing in real-life situations.

Start: 24 March 2026 (lecture period)

Topics: Activation and expansion of existing English skills with a focus on fluent communication in everyday university life at English level A2 or B1/B2

Lecturer: Teachers of the Language Center

On campus/online; for room and course information see below, according to the university schedule

If you would like to take part in the English courses, please contact your supervisor and register (see links below). If you have any questions, you can also contact Constanze.Finsterwalder@th-rosenheim.de.

PROGRAM - summer semester 2026:

A. Work-Life Balance English

• Semester course
• 60 min weekly
• Starts Tuesday, 24 March, 9-10 am (Group 1) & 10:15-11:15 am (Group 2)
• Room: tba
• Instructor: Sarah Swalef
• max. number of participants: 8 per course

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Content:

As English language skills are an increasingly important requirement for university staff to do their jobs effectively, I am here to help you practice your workplace skills in English. As a healthy balance, we will also focus on general English conversation, as it is often the spontaneity of English that challenges us the most.

You can expect to take part in activities to improve the following skills

Speaking skills: general conversation, advising students, role play, group work and presentations

Listening: news reports, videos or documentaries, class discussions

Reading: reports, documents or emails

Writing: from emails to reports or minutes of meetings

Participation is for independent users of English who may need a boost in their confidence for the workplace.

B. English for the workplace - Refreshing the basics 

• Semester course
• 60 min weekly
• Starts Tuesday, 24 March, 10:15-11:15am (= Group 1) & Friday, 27 March, 8:30-9:30am (= Group 2)
• Room: tba
• Instructor: Megan Pötzinger
• max. number of participants: 8 per course

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Content:

This is a refresher course for staff members with basic English skills. We will focus on speaking skills as well as grammar and email writing.

C. English for the workplace (online)

• Semester course

• 60 min weekly
• Starts Wednesday, 25 March, 9:45-10:45am (Zoom)
• Instructor: Dr. Mathias Arden
• max. number of participants: 8

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Content:

This course is designed for staff members with a good command of English who wish to further improve their language skills while handling international communication in the university context, for instance when dealing with student counseling. We will review and expand our phrase bank for written correspondence and practice drafting semiformal and formal emails. Furthermore, we will train speaking scenarios for providing assistance to international students to improve fluency, in person or over the phone.

We will also use short videos, podcasts or news articles on a variety of current affairs topics to get us talking.

We offer two programs - the language tandem to improve language skills and the International Buddy Program with a focus on intercultural competence.   

Language skills ➡️ Language tandem
The language tandem consists of two people with different native languages, e.g. German-English, Spanish-German, German-Hindi, etc. and offers the opportunity to gain language practice in direct communication with native speakers.

Intercultural competence ➡️ International Buddy Program
The International Buddy Program brings together local and international students and employees to engage in transcultural exchange and become interculturally competent.

The Learning Campus course room Sprachtandem offers the opportunity to network, exchange ideas and find a language tandem or an International Buddy.

Comprehensive internationalization succeeds when different areas of the university - control and management, study and teaching, research, development and transfer, administration and services for students as well as marketing and communication - are involved and actively support the process.

Employees of the TH Rosenheim can find the internal strategy paper on the intranet. It summarizes the current status and formulates goals and recommendations for the various areas.