Course advice

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The course of study counseling is an additional counseling services for students, in addition to existing advisory services has been established at universities in the Federal Republic of Germany mainly in the quality pact teaching and advising during the study period, so after a study decision was made. In total, offers in the field of student counseling / support were funded as part of the teaching quality pact at 111 colleges and universities. A distinction can be made between department-specific study progress advice and study progress advice that acts across faculties.

The subject-specific course advisory service is about helping students who deviate from the planned course of study to reorganize their studies. The individual support enables a solution in which course specifics can be taken into account, such as B. the examination regulations or the curriculum, and should thus contribute to a successful degree. In addition, particularly high-performing students should be given special support, for example to study faster.

The individual, confidential and voluntary advisory service is intended to give students the opportunity to discuss problems and questions in the course of their studies in a timely manner in resource and solution-oriented advisory meetings.

The individual course of study of the students is also the focus of cross-faculty advisory services; Due to the interdisciplinary design, however, less subject-specific content is thematized during the course of studies (except for timetable and study organization advice ), but rather the focus is on psychosocial advice in the event of learning, examination and study organization difficulties.

Individual evidence

  1. Search and find projects in the Teaching Quality Pact , accessed on May 15, 2019
  2. Study progress advice - HRK nexus - Designing transitions, improving academic success , accessed on May 15, 2019
  3. Study progress advice - Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences , accessed on May 15, 2019