Teaching of the Department of Economic Studies

The Department of Economic Studies (KES) provides teaching of economic professional subjects mainly for students of the study programme Finance and Management, partly for students of the study programme Tourism.

The remaining non-economic fields of study and programmes offer courses introducing the basics of economics, taxation or accounting.

Finance and Management programme curriculum and its structure

The three-year bachelor's degree programme in Finance and Management includes compulsory, optional and elective courses with a total required load equivalent to 180 credits (an average of 60 credits per year and 30 per semester). The recommended curriculum for the full-time form of study can be found here, and for the part-time form here.

Compulsory courses

Compulsory courses include:

• Microeconomics/Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics/Macroeconomics
• Business Economics 1 and 2
• Management/Management (AJ)
• Marketing/Marketing (AJ) / Marketing auf Deutsch
• Foreign Language (English or German)
• Academic Writing
• Mathematics/Mathematics
• Mathematical Methods in Economics
• Statistics/Statistics
• Introduction to ICT
• Company Economy
• Law
• Fundamentals of Accounting
• Financial Accounting
• Taxes
• Financial Management
• Money, Banks, Fin. markets/Money, Banks, Fin. Markets
• Management Accounting
• Quality Management
• Human Resource Management
• Marketing Communications
• Strategic Management
• Bachelor Thesis 1 and 2
• Internship (15 weeks)

Optional courses

Optional courses are grouped into two blocks. Each student must complete at least 1 course from each block. Each student must obtain 12 credits from all optional courses (Block 1, Block 2).

PV-Block I             

• Project Management 1
• Public Sector Economics
• Industrial Logistics
• Project Management 2   
• Taxes for Entrepreneurial Practice

PV-Block II            

• Practical Accounting on PC
• Management Simulation Games
• Training Company
• Managerial Ethics
• Psychology and Sociology                       

The subjects can also be studied individually as electives.

Elective courses

The following subjects are included in the category of electives:

• Sport (max. 2 credits can be earned)
• foreign language other than compulsory
• foreign language subject (see below)
• Business Solution - Practical Applications
• Tax Evidence
• Electronic Commerce for Economists
• Company Education and Adult Retraining
• Career Counselling
• Personal Development Management
• Marketing Applications
• Media Communication
• International Marketing
• Conducting Business by Natural Person
• Microeconomics Review
• Social and Management Skills Training
• Simulation Modelling
• Introduction to Accounting
• Setting Up Small Business

Foreign language education

In the Finance and Management programme, students are required to study 1 foreign language - they choose between English and German.

Another obligation is to study 1 subject in a foreign language - either an alternative to the compulsory subject or an elective subject.

Foreign language courses

• Business Economics 2 (English, alternative to Business Economics 2)
• Financial Management (English, alternative to the course Financial Management of the Enterprise)
• Macroeconomics (English, alternative to Macroeconomics)
• Management (English, alternative to Management)
• Marketing (English), Marketing auf Deutsch (German, alternatives to Marketing)
• Microeconomics (English, alternative to Microeconomics)
• Money, Banks, Fin. Markets (English, alternative to the course Money, banks, fin. markets)
• Strategic Management

2) foreign language electives offered by the Department of Economic Studies

• Decision-making in Management (English)
• Einführung in moderne PR (German)
• Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (English)
• International Marketing (English)
• Introduction to PR (English)
• Project Management (English)
• Starting Business - Project (English)
• Sustainability in Business (English)

In addition to these courses, elective course Intensive Blended Programme is also offered, allowing students to spend a week abroad in conjunction with teamwork with students from foreign universities on a given topic.