Christmas around the English-speaking world

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Game Studies and Engineering: Studying in an enthusiastic and balanced teaching environment

When he started to study, all he thought of were career prospects not personal interest. Fortunately, Benjamin Hanußek soon realised that it takes more than that and so, the German switched his studies from Economic Psychology to Archaeology. Gladly, because there he found out about his true passion: working intellectually with games. He specialised on ancient Egyptian board games, attended conferences and published articles on that topic. Now, to find out about what has changed since the 3rd millennium BCE, he is studying Game Studies and Engineering in Klagenfurt.

Teaching Assistant – Apply Now

Get to know a new culture, improve your language skills, and gain teaching experience by becoming a teaching assistant in one of ten exciting countries. France, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Russia, and Hungary are partner countries to Austria in the teaching assistant programme and one of them could be your new home for 7 to 10 months. As a teaching assistant, you get the opportunity to teach German as a foreign language for 12 to 16 hours per week in cooperation with the local German teachers, which gives you a chance of observing and acquiring new teaching practices while improving your own language skills and exploring a new country and culture outside of teaching hours.

For more information and your application, visit www.weltweitunterrichten.at/sprachassistenz, and if you are interested in any informative events, visit www.weltweitunterrichten.at/infoveranstaltungen.

Apply by January 12, 2021, if you would like to participate in the programme for the school year 2021/2022.

Studying English and American Studies: “I feel like I am part of a huge university family!

Tamara Urach from Wolfsberg is about to complete her teacher education programme in English and History. She is so enthusiastic about the English language and culture that she decided to do an additional Bachelor of Arts in English and American Studies. In this interview, she tells us what she likes about the University of Klagenfurt and why freshers should dare to do something.