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The new course dates for the summer semester 2025 are available and registration is possible from March 25th via OPAL. See under Registration

Thanks to funding from the Equality and Diversity Incentive Fund, the Center for Continuing Education will be offering language courses from April 2022 that offer the opportunity to learn basic German sign language skills. These can be attended by students and employees of TU Dresden.

• Sensitization for communication differences (e.g. the interaction of language & facial expressions)
• Acquisition of the finger alphabet
• Getting to know individual gestures for daily (professional) practice.

Gestures, facial expressions and signs have always been linked to language all over the world and are an essential part of communication. In dialog with other cultures, however, misunderstandings can quickly arise because gestures and facial expressions, like languages in general, have cultural connotations. Every language is accompanied by gestures and signs. Although sign language has been used for centuries, German Sign Language has only been recognized as a language in its own right since 2002.

The current interviews with the two lecturers of the TU Dresden language courses on German Sign Language are particularly worth reading on the subject of sign language:

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Interview with lecturer Petra Novotná

In addition to barriers and wishes for politics and society, her interview is also about dreams, languages, the happiness of being yourself, and the appeal of “aha” experiences. Learn more

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Interview with lecturer Marvin Zehner

Marvin talks to us about barriers and wishes for politics and society. But it's also about dreams, languages, the happiness of being yourself, and the appeal of aha-experiences. Experience now

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Sign language

Sign language is a natural language that is used for communication, especially by non-hearing and hearing-impaired people. It is a native language. Around 200,000 people in Germany speak German sign language. Around 80,000 of these are deaf. Sign language forms the social and cultural foundation of the German sign language community. Learn more

Notes on the course

• The following courses are offered in SS 2025:
  • Introductory courses: 2 online courses, 1 face-to-face course
  • Advanced courses: 1 online course, 1 face-to-face course
  • Conversation course: 1 face-to-face course
• All courses will take place weekly. In future, the courses will last 90 minutes (instead of the previous 60 minutes) and will be based on the regular lecture times. There will be 12 dates per course.
• At the beginning, participants may find it unfamiliar that there will be no spoken language at all in the courses; the audio level will remain muted in the digital version.
• Communication in the courses is almost exclusively via sign language, only sometimes the chat function is used as a substitute/ or written on slips of paper.
• Further information on the individual courses via the OPAL platform

Registration

Registration for the courses takes place via the Center for Continuing Education (ZfW), from now on via the OPAL platform. Under the respective link you will find the link to the course in the ZfW catalog, where you can register.

Introductory courses

Mondays: 09:20 -10:50, from April 07, 2025 - July 07, 2025 - face-to-face1 Language course A:Registration DGS introductory course - face-to-face format

Wednesdays: 11:10 -12:40, from April 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025 - digital2
Language course B - Registration DGS introductory course - online course

Wednesdays: 13:00 -14:30, from April 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025 - digital2
Language course C - Registration DGS introductory course - online course

Advanced courses

Mondays: 11:10 -12:40, from April 07, 2025 - July 07, 2025 - 1 format1
Language course D: Registration DGS advanced course - face-to-face format

Wednesdays: 09:20 -10:50, from April 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025 - digital1 Language course E: Registration DGS advanced course - online course

Conversation course

Mondays: 13:00 -14:30, from April 07, 2025 - July 07, 2025 - 1 format1
Language course F: Registration for DGS advanced course - face-to-face format

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