Student Services, Department of Architecture

Course registration is separate from exam registration, which must be completed separately.

You can find the corresponding dates for the general course registration periods for each semester in unisono, always above the course catalog.

Once the course catalog is published in unisono, students can find out about the courses being offered. At the same time, the Architecture Department’s course schedules will be published on the department’s website under “Courses” to help students navigate the offerings.

Course registration opens for students in unisono. During this period, instructors cannot accept or reject students.
Note: Each winter semester, the required courses for first-semester BA and MA students have an extended registration period (until approximately mid-October). Therefore, enrollment in first-semester courses is only possible after this deadline has passed.

During this period, instructors can change course registrations from "AN" (enrolled) to "ZU" (admitted), "/ST" (canceled), or "WL" (waitlist), thereby assigning seats.

This phase allows students to register for additional courses (that are not yet full). Unlike during the first registration phase, instructors may already approve or reject students’ registration for a course during this period. Please note that courses that are already full do not need to be reopened for registration!

For BA and MA thesis proposals, there are separate registration periods! These will be announced in due course via notices on the bulletin board and at information sessions.
Note: Course proposals can be submitted throughout the entire semester, and the seat allocation process is open at all times.

Since there are often ambiguities regarding course drop procedures, the following procedure must be followed in accordance with the department’s decisions of May 15, 2019, and November 2021:

Any registration for a course that has been approved by the instructor obligates students to drop the course if they do not attend. This applies to all courses (except lectures), even if they could be repeated any number of times. If a student fails to drop the course, the course grade or exam grade will be recorded as a 5.0 and this information will be forwarded to the Registrar’s Office.

• Withdrawal from seminars and elective courses must be submitted in writing (via email) to the department within 3 weeks after the start of the lecture period or, for elective courses, after the start of the elective course, and must be confirmed in writing (via email) by the department.
  >> Withdrawal from a course via unisono is not possible after the official registration period has ended.
• Each semester, registration for the “Design” exam (BA 17–19 and MA 4–6) in unisono is mandatory during a specified and duly published period (within 6 weeks of the start of the design project, as listed in the exam schedule).
  The end of the registration period also marks the end of the withdrawal period; after that, participation is binding, and the course work cannot be returned one week before the exam date (FPO-B 2020, § 9 (5) and FPO-M 2020, § 9 (7).
• Withdrawal from the design course must also be submitted in writing (via email) to the department within the deadline and confirmed in writing (via email) by the department.
  >> If the student has already registered for the exam in unisono, this registration must also be canceled by the student within the specified period.
• In the event of a sick leave notification for the submission/presentation date, a scanned copy of the medical certificate must be emailed to the department on the same day.
  The original certificate must be submitted to the department within 3 business days.
  >> If the draft is submitted or presented at a later date, it cannot be assumed that the presentation took place in a timely manner for the purpose of receiving credit toward admission to the thesis.

Signed: K. Marx (Academic Coordination), N. Wüstenhöfer (Examination Office)