Courses to improve your writing - Spring semester 2025
The University of Basel offers numerous events that develop the writing competence of students, researchers and employees. The offers below are divided into three categories according to target groups: writing in the disciplines; writing for everyone with a focus on language; writing for PhD and post-doctoral researchers.
Writing in the disciplines
Education Sciences
History
Besser schreiben in der Geschichtswissenschaft (Schreiblabor)
Hispanic Studies
Expresión escrita y oral (nivel 2)
Redacción de textos académicos y traducción (nivel 3)
Human Medicine
Writing courses are integrated into the longitudinal curriculum for scientific work, see overview here.
Due to admission restrictions in the Human Medicine degree program, the courses are only open to medical students.
Psychology
Wie schreibe ich eine Bachelorarbeit in Kognitions- und Entscheidungswissenschaften?
Writing at the Language Center
German
Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Sprechen und Schreiben I
Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Sprechen und Schreiben II Programm B
Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Sprechen und Schreiben IV
Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Mündliche und schriftliche Kommunikation in der medizinischen Praxis
English
English: Speaking and Writing I
English: Speaking and Writing II
Academic Writing: How to Compose Your Seminar Paper, Research Article or Thesis
French
Writing for PhDs and Postdocs
German
GRACE: Effizient wissenschaftlich schreiben - Der Weg zum Text
English
GRACE: Writing to Be Published: Academic Writing Conventions and Style
GRACE: Writing Productivity - Tools and Techniques
GRACE: Writing Workflow: Forming Your Next Article in the Natural and Life Sciences
GRACE: Writing Process in Natural Sciences: From Research to Publication
GRACE: Writing for Publication in the Social Sciences and Humanities