The course offers information on the curriculum, on study-contents and different fields of practice. The workshop allows students to reflect on their conceptual design abilities and prepares them for the methods and subjects of the courses of the first year of studies.

> The first prerequisite for the completion of StEOP is uploading a letter of motivation, around 2500 characters in length. This is also the first task for the Orientierungskurs. The letter of motivation must be written in German and needs to be uploaded between March 3rd (afternoon)and March 8th (until noon) on TUWEL (e-learning platform).

The course includes lectures about the various areas of studies and research offered at the faculty of architecture and on different fields of practice, combined with exercises and a short workshop on a typical tasks within the area of architectural concepts.

There will be four mentoring meetings, where students will be asked to reflect their study choice and think about positions and possibilities within the field of architecture.

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The registration in groups will start on Monday February 6th, 2017 at 09:00 am and ends on Friday February 26th 2017 at 12:00.

three exercises and one short design project