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Attractive variety of courses and local field-trips. Opportunity for real immersion into a leading German university. Setting features a major European metropolis (Berlin) with unrivaled cultural offerings and a rich and turbulent history. The Freie Universitat is located in an attractive section of the city, with easy access to the urban... read moreAttractive variety of courses and local field-trips. Opportunity for real immersion into a leading German university. Setting features a major European metropolis (Berlin) with unrivaled cultural offerings and a rich and turbulent history. The Freie Universitat is located in an attractive section of the city, with easy access to the urban center. Excellent support staff. Opportunities for interaction with other students at the Freie Universitat. Exciting cultural program, featuring concerts, opera visits, and soccer games. Weeklong excursions to destinations like Vienna, Munich, Prague, Dresden, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Strasbourg, Paris, Nuremberg, and Krakow. Opportunity for enrollment in the FU's regular Sommersemester (April-July) as add-on experience after Fall and/or Spring with FU-BEST. Attractive pricing, ensuring accessibility to students from private as well as state institutions.
Course offerings:
- Intensive German language (all levels offered; 6-8 credits per student)
- Experiential Beginning German (for non-majors/non-minors; 3-4 credits)
- Contemporary Germany in European Perspective (3 credits)
- Integration, Conflict, and Security in Europe (3 credits)
- History of Central European Classical Music (3 credits)
- Perspectives on 20th Century Art in Central Europe (3 credits)
- German Cinema Before 1945 (3 credits; Fall semester only)
- The Human Condition and the Totalitarian Experience (3 credits)
- Berlin: History, Memory, Literature (3 credits)
- Modern German History in European Context: A Thematic Approach (3 credits)
- The Promise of German Philosophy: Kant to Hegel (Fall semester only; 3 credits)
- Tragedy and New Beginnings in German Philosophy: From Marx and Nietzsche to Habermas (Spring semester only; 3 credits)
- Islam and Europe: Historical and Contemporary Dimensions (3 credits)
- Literatur und Film in Deutschland seit der Wende (in German; Fall semester only; 3 credits)
- Theatermetropole Berlin: Vergangenheit & Gegenwart (in German; Spring semester only; 3 credits)
- Contemporary Cinema in Germany and Europe (3 credits; Spring semester only)
- Architecture in Berlin from the 19th Century to Today (3 credits)
- European Business Cultures (3 credits)
- Themes and Issues in Transatlantic Relations (3 credits) Less
