Asian Studies and Management: China

Academic Content

• Courses in the Preliminary Studies

  1st Semester

  • Chinese 1
  • Regional Analysis China 1:
    Chinese Studies 1
  • Business English:
    Business Writing (EN)
    Intercultural Management (EN)
  • Business 1 Core Corporate Processes:
    Introduction to Management
    Core Processes
  • Business 2 Supporting Corporate Processes:
    Supporting Corporate Processes 1(External Accounting)
  • Business 4 Fundamentals of Business Law:
    Business Law 1 (Introduction to the Legal System and Jurisprudence, Contract Law)
     

   

   

  2nd Semester

  • Chinese 2
  • Regional Analysis China 2:
    Chinese Studies 2
  • Business 1 Core corporate processes: 
    Knowledge processing 
  • Business 2 Supporting Corporate Processes:
    Supporting Corporate Processes 2+3 (cost management, investment and financing)
  • Business 3 Fundamentals of Economics:
    Market processes 1 (microeconomics)
    Market processes 2 (macroeconomics)
  • Business 4 Fundamentals of Business Law:
    Business Law 2 (Impairment of Performance, Liability Law)
     

  Most courses are taught in German; courses designated "EN" are taught in English.

   

• Courses in the Main Studies

  3rd Semester

  • Chinese 3
  • Regional Analysis China 3:
    Intercultural Competence 1
  • Regional Analysis China 4: 
    Chinese Studies 3
  • Business 5 Management Concepts:
    Business Ethics
    Controlling
  • Business 6 Internationalisation:
    International Business Law
    Foreign Trade 
  • Business 5 Leadership and Communication:
    Communication Psychology 
  • Business 10 Elective blocks (1 out of 2):
    Quantitative Methods (Introduction to Statistics)
    Elective subject from the catalogue of compulsory elective subjects
     

   

   

  4th Semester

  • Chinese 4
  • Regional Analysis China 3:
    Intercultural Competence 2
  • Regional Analysis China 4:
    Chinese Studies 4
  • Business 7 Leadership and Communication:
    Working Across Cultures (EN)
  • Business 8 Business Processes:
    Legal Issues in Management
    Procurement, Quality and Process Management 
  • Business 9 Human Resources Management:
    Labour Law
    Human resource management
  • Economics 10 Elective blocks (1 out of 2):
    Quantitative Methods (Applied Statistics)
    Elective subject from the catalogue of compulsory elective subjects

   

  Most courses are taught in German; courses designated "EN" are taught in English.

• Year Abroad

  5th Semester

  • Chinese 5+6 Theoretical study semester:
    Preparation for year abroad
    Intensive language course at a university in Asia
    
     

  6th Semester

  • Business 11 Practical study semester:
    Internship in Asia 
    Follow-up to the year abroad
    Intercultural case study analyses
• Intensive Chinese Program at QDU

  Currently, students with very good Chinese language skills (HSK 5 with at least 210 points) have the opportunity to apply for an intensive program at Qingdao University (QDU) after the 4th semester as an alternative to the regular study program with a year abroad and the 7th semester here in Konstanz. This voluntary program enables students to stay in China for three instead of only two semesters. 

• Last Term and Bachelor Thesis

  7th Semester

  • Business Chinese
  • Business 12 specialisation subjects (3 out of 4):
    - Business Auditing
    - Legal Cultures
    - Market Management
    - Sustainable Development 
  • Bachelor thesis incl. colloquium