Profession-Oriented Competencies (BOK)
Your introduction to practice
The BOK courses complement your degree programme and invite you to develop your competencies and try out new things. You learn to extend your own strengths and your resources specifically across disciplinary boundaries and in a practical direction and to prepare for various professional and societal contexts.
We offer a comprehensive range of courses in the areas Communication, Management, Media, IT, and Foreign Languages. The BOK courses help you to actively shape your future and society, whether you’re taking a required course for your bachelor’s programme or extending your qualifications on a voluntary basis. We would be happy to advise you in selecting courses.
Information for voluntary participants
Would you like to take advantage of our courses on a voluntary basis and do not need any (more) ECTS credits or SQ certificates?
As a student with a valid student ID number and a university account, you can take advantage of many of our courses directly – including Service Learning, the Sustainability Certificate, Internship Plus, and other practical modules. These freely accessible formats give you opportunities to discover new perspectives, gain practical experience, and strengthen your personal and social competence.
For courses in the BOK course area, you can submit your registration requests during the open admission phase, as soon as the priority registration phase for students who still need to earn credits in this area has ended. You train competencies with future relevance and shape your individual profile for studies, career, and social involvement.
Details on registration are available here.
Selected offers for all students
Combine your studies with personal development, social involvement, or intensive practical experience in this module:
Certificates
Augment your studies by acquiring competencies with future relevance: Our optional certificate programmes give you the chance to do just that alongside your degree programme.
Our certificate programmes are open to all students:
- Sustainability Certificate: Learn how to understand societal challenges in an interdisciplinary context and help shape them.
- Digital Competencies Certificate: Strengthen your abilities in the use of digital tools, data, and technologies – in a critical, creative, and responsible manner.
Why BOK? How you benefit
Alongside your degree programme, the BOK area offers you:
- practical insight into and experience in various vocational fields
- key competencies that extend your strengths for your studies and career
- teamwork and practical work with your own projects
- the chance to reflect on your competencies, expectations, and goals
- valuable contacts for career entry
How can I prepare? Help deciding what courses to take
In the BOK course area, you select from the various topics and work out your own personal profile. The following questions can help you to make an informed choice:
- What are my career ambitions and goals?
- What additional qualifications would support me in achieving my goals?
- What vocational fields would I like to learn more about?
- What areas would I like to extend my strengths in?
- Where do I see potential for my development?
Requests and suggestions
Do you have ideas or suggestions for our work or our course programme? We would be happy to receive feedback from you. Just send us an email.
In addition, you can contact your student representatives in the Quality Commission with questions, suggestions, or ideas for improvement at any time.
Evaluations
All of our courses are evaluated regularly by the participants and the lecturors. The basis for the evaluation is the University’s core questionnaire, complemented by additional internal questions.
Information on the procedure, the questionnaires used, and data privacy is available on the University of Freiburg website.