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Interdisciplinary Qualification

The Interdisciplinary Qualification (IQ, formerly Studium Fundamentale) offers insight into foreign subject cultures and places special emphasis on interdisciplinarity. After successful completion of the module, students have built up an understanding of issues in other sciences. Students can choose two to a maximum of 4 credit points from interdisciplinary in-depth courses (old Studium Fundamentale à 3 credit points).

Students sitting in a lecture in the audimax. © Oliver Schaper​/​TU Dortmund

The courses can be selected from all courses offered by the TU Dortmund University after consultation with the lecturers and according to the regulations (e.g. for registration or enrollment) of the faculties offering the courses.

Courses that are already open to all faculties without the necessary agreement are listed in the LSF under "Studium Fundamentale". To do this, go to the LSF page electronic course catalog -> Events -> Course catalog -> Studium Fundamentale and check all individual faculties. Find a suitable course, if necessary observe special registration deadlines and modalities.

It is also possible to acquire key competencies or foreign language competencies in languages not offered at school within the framework of IQ.  

All courses taken must be completed with examination results a module certificate, pure certificates of attendance are generally not recognized. In addition, some courses offered by the faculties of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, e.g. "Technik light", are not recognized for the BCI faculty. Information on the recognition of certain events can be obtained from the examination board of the BCI faculty.

If the IQ is completed with a grade, this grade is included in the calculation of the Bachelor grade.

Finally, the module certificate has to be submitted individually by the student to the examination office Team 4 for registration.

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Location & approach

The campus of TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity is located close to interstate junction Dort­mund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dort­mund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is “Dort­mund-Eichlinghofen” (closer to South Cam­pus), and from B 1 / A 40 “Dort­mund-Dorstfeld” (closer to North Cam­pus). Signs for the uni­ver­si­ty are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dort­mund.

To get from North Cam­pus to South Cam­pus by car, there is the connection via Vo­gel­pothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at North Cam­pus and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.

TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity has its own train station (“Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät”). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dort­mund main station (“Dort­mund Hauptbahnhof”) and Düsseldorf main station via the “Düsseldorf Airport Train Station” (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 15 or 30 minutes). The uni­ver­si­ty is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duis­burg.

You can also take the bus or subway train from Dort­mund city to the uni­ver­si­ty: From Dort­mund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station “Stadtgarten”, usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At “Stadtgarten” you switch trains and get on line U42 towards “Hombruch”. Look out for the Station “An der Palmweide”. From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dort­mund main station to the stop “Dort­mund Kampstraße”. From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop “Dort­mund Wittener Straße”. Switch to bus line 447 and get off at “Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S”.

The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity. There are two stations on North Cam­pus. One (“Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S”) is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the uni­ver­si­ty directly with the city of Dort­mund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the “Technologiepark” and (via South Cam­pus) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at North Cam­pus and offers a direct connection to South Cam­pus every five minutes.

The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dort­mund Airport (DTM) to Dort­mund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dort­mund Central Station, you can continue to the uni­ver­si­ty campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of in­ter­na­tio­nal flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the uni­ver­si­ty station.