8 September 2025
Begin your academic journey with our 5-day orientation event!
The pre-course is an opportunity for incoming General and Computational Linguistics students to get a first introduction to their degree through talks, guided workshops, and tours held by students from the Fachschaft and some of your tutors.
Please bring a laptop (+ charger).
ALL students (both GL and CL) are strongly recommended to obtain a laptop for their studies NOW - e.g. there are mandatory programming courses scheduled for the first semester of the Bachelors.
Schedule
| Day |
Time |
Content |
Location |
Monday
October 13th |
11:00 - 13:00 |
Official start of the pre-course
Overview of GL & CL Programmes and Course Structure (slides)
How to sign up for courses & Overview of language courses (slides)
|
VG Wilhelmstraße Hörsaal 0.02 |
| 14:00 - 16:00 |
Introductory meeting for General Linguistics |
Brechtbau Hörsaal 036 |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
Introductory meeting for Computational Linguistics |
| 18:00 | Post-intro meeting hangout |
Alter Botanischer Garten |
Tuesday
October 14th |
09:00 - 12:00 | Post-intro meeting Q&A
Modulehandbook walkthrough (slides) (CL Diagram) (GL Diagram)
Overview of the university platforms (slides)
|
VG Wilhelmstraße Hörsaal 0.02 |
Wednesday
October 15th |
09:00 - 12:00 |
Introduction to General Linguistics (slides)
Introduction to Computational Linguistics (slides)
Gentle introduction to programming and GenAI (slides)
Computer setup for your studies (slides) |
VG Wilhelmstraße Hörsaal 0.02 |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Living and Studying in Tübingen (slides)
Tour of the campus |
Thursday
October 16th |
09:00 - 12:00 | Computer setup for your studies |
VG Wilhelmstraße Hörsaal 0.02 |
| 16:00 | MA student hangout |
Brechtbau room 035 |
Friday
October 17th |
10:00 - 12:00 | Lab 0 for CompLing students |
VG Wilhelmstraße Hörsaal 0.02 |
| 13:00 |
City Rally |
Meeting point TBD |
| 18:30 |
Pub Crawl |
Meeting point: Holzmarkt |
Schedule subject to change.
There are two introductory meetings taking place on Monday; the first one at 14:00 is aimed at GL students (but CL students are also encouraged to come), and the second is at 16:00 and aimed at CL students. We strongly encourage you to attend these meetings. You will get an overview and a quick description of all the courses you have to take.
Location
The pre-course will take place in VG Wilhelmstraße (Wilhelmstraße 19, 72074 Tübingen), Hörsaal 0.02.
Stay up to date!
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Please fill out the form below to let us know you are coming.
Questions? Enter them in the following form:
Please note that this form is anonymous. We will do our best to answer your questions during the pre-course.
