Expand competencies
Knowledge of foreign languages and programs such as STATA, SPSS, LaTex are not only helpful for economists in their studies, but also qualify them for the job market.
At the department and in the offers of the university you have many opportunities to further educate yourself besides your studies.
IT courses of the Hochschulrechenzentrums
The HRZ of the University of Bonn offers free IT courses for beginners and advanced students: LaTex/Writer of Libre Office/MS WORD, spreadsheet calculation (MS Excel), planning of scientific work (Gantt-Chart, concept mapping and process modeling), data analysis (SPSS), VBA programming (VBA; Java) and much more.
IT courses at the department
The Department of Economics offers IT courses in cooperation with the Economics Student Association:
- R (5 days)
- Stata (2 days)
- MATLAB
- LaTex
Learn languages
Language modules offered by the Language Learning Center (SLZ) can be taken as free electives. Furthermore, it is open to every student to learn extracurricular languages at the University of Bonn. Registration and much more information can be found on the pages of the Language Learning Center.
| Arabic | Chinese | English B1and above | French A1and above |
| Greek | Italian | Japanese | Dutch |
| Polish | Portuguese | Russian | Swedish |
| Turkish | Czech | Sign language | Spanish A1 and above |
