University of Vienna

http://www.univie.ac.at/ Some units offered in English, otherwise the equivalent of GRMN3306 required.

City Population: 1.6 million Enrollment: 74,000 Standard Course Load: Law - 20 ECTS points per semester All other courses – 30 ECTS

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA COURSES The University of Vienna was founded in 1365 and is the Students applying for the University of Vienna must oldest university in the German-speaking world and one of have flexible study plans, as the enrolment procedure the largest in Central Europe. At present, about 74,000 there cannot guarantee certain units. students are enrolled at the University of Vienna, in close to It is recommended that students fulfil elective credit 180 courses. The University of Vienna is also the largest only. teaching and research institution in Austria with close to 8,600 employees, 6,500 of which are scientists and Most of the lectures and textbooks are in German. If academics. The University is proud of having been the home language preparation is needed, German courses are of several Nobel Prize Laureates. held before semester. The university comprises 17 faculties and centres: 72,000 students from 130 countries are currently enrolled at Faculty of Catholic Theology the University which offers more than 135 Bachelor, Master, Faculty of Protestant Theology Diploma and Doctoral programmes in the fields of study Faculty of Law covered by its Faculties. It has 172 departments, and is the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics largest university of Austria. It graduates approximately 4,000 Faculty of Computer Science students per year and is one of the largest universities in Europe. Faculty of Historical-Cultural Sciences Faculty of Philological-Cultural Sciences The faculties, departments and buildings of the university are Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences dispersed throughout the city. The main building, simply Faculty of Psychology called “The University” or “Hauptgebäude”, is located on the Faculty of Social Sciences Ringstrasse in the centre of Vienna. The university is a State Faculty of Mathematics University. All Austrian students with a “Matura” diploma (the Faculty of Physics equivalent of a British “A-level” or the German “Abitur”) are Faculty of Chemistry entitled to enroll at the university. Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and The University of Vienna has 9 Nobel Laureates, Astronomy predominately received for Medicine, Chemistry and Physics. Faculty of Life Sciences The University of Vienna is ranked as the highest university Centre for Translation Studies within Austria. Centre for Sports Sciences and University Sports

the Neue Burg, a part of the Hofburg at the Heldenplatz. Some courses are now taught in English; see - Between 1938 (Anschluß) and the end of the Second http://online.univie.ac.at/vlvz?lang=en&extended=Y. World War, Vienna lost its status as a capital to Berlin. Type in the subject you are interested in, for example Law and set the language as “Englisch”. There are several law During the Cold War, Vienna was a hotbed of courses taught in English that are available for exchange international espionage owning to its location in neutral students. Austria, between the Western and Eastern blocs.

SEMESTERS DATES Other famous Viennese items include the Lippizaner Semester 1 (Winter semester) October – January stallions, the Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben), Semester 2 (Summer semester) March to June Wiener Schnitzel, Sachertorte, and Danish pastries. Viennese cafes claim to have invented the process of HOUSING filtering coffee from the captured baggage after the The Austrian Exchange Service (ÖAD) organises second Turkish siege of 1683. accommodation in halls of residence ("StudentInnen-heime"). With the form "reservation for Vienna was once the citadel of the Habsburgs who ruled housing" you can apply for a room in a hall of residence the country for over 600 years. The city is an architectural (after applying for exchange). If you want a single room, gem and a centre of music from the medieval times. The please make a note on the form however there is no Hofburg (Imperial Palace) and the adjoining Augustinian guarantee that there are enough single rooms available. Church are two of the marvels of architecture. Other Upon your arrival, you have to pay a security deposit directly notable sights in Vienna include the Museum of Fine Arts, to the OEAD (in cash). Belvedere Palace, and the Sigmund Freud Museum.

If you want to arrive earlier because of German classes or Every year orchestras from around the world take part in other reasons, please mention it on the form and the ÖAD The Vienna International Festival. Churches, mansions will try to arrange accommodation for you until you can move and palaces across the city host more than 150 different into your dorm room. concerts ranging from sacred music to opera and choral The Austrian Academic Exchange Service is situated on the music to symphony. university campus. http://www.housing.oead.ac.at email: [email protected] Vienna is the last great capital of the nineteenth century You can organise your accommodation in a hall of residence ball. There are over 200 significant balls per year, some yourself. If you choose this option, please contact the featuring as many as nine live orchestras. Balls are held manager of the hall of residence in time. A listing of all the in the many beautiful palaces in Vienna, with the principal halls of residence for students in Vienna can be found at; venue being the Hofburg Palace at Heldenplatz. A Vienna http://www.cycamp.at/hostels/hostels.php3 ball is an all night cultural attraction. Major Viennese balls generally begin at nine pm and last until five am, although Students who wish to live in a private flat will be given many guests carry on the celebrations into the next day. addresses of persons who sublet rooms or apartments to Vienna contains the homes of famous Viennese: students. Sigmund Freud (his psychoanalytic couch and other possessions are on display) Johann Strauss Jr. (where HEALTH INSURANCE he composed The Blue Danube) Beethoven (he wrote his UWA has insurance to cover its outgoing exchange students: Third Symphony there) and Mozart’s house (called UWA Corporate Personal and Travel Policy. It is usually Figarohaus: it’s where he composed The Marriage of accepted by the host universities as primary insurance. Figaro ). There are also famous people buried in Vienna. However, the University of Vienna will advise you if you need Probably the most famous grave is Mozart’s hidden to take out your own, additional insurance somewhere in the St. Marx Cemetery — when he died You can join the Austrian Insurance for Students the great composer was buried in an unmarked pauper’s (Studentenversicherung) after registration at the university. grave that to this day remains undiscovered. The insurance includes free medical treatment and prescriptions at a flat fee. OTHER INFORMATION Read the Austria section in the blue files in the Study ABOUT VIENNA Abroad Office. You will find some very useful information Vienna was originally a Celtic city founded around 500 BC. In from returned UWA students. 15 BC, it became a frontier city guarding the Roman Empire against the German tribes to the north. In the Middle Ages, it CONTACTS became the home of the Babenberg and, later, the Habsburg University of Vienna dynasties and through the latter the capital of the Holy http://www.univie.ac.at/international Roman Empire and later the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Our contact details: Ottoman Turkish invasions of Europe in the 16th and 17th http://www.international.uwa.edu.au/se/welcome centuries were stopped at Vienna. See the Battle of Vienna Tel: 6488 8199 (1683). In 1815, Vienna was the site of the Congress of [email protected] Vienna which redrew national boundaries in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. In 1938, after a triumphant entry into Austria, Adolf Hitler famously spoke to the Austrian people from the balcony of 2