Programs by Country: Germany
BERLIN: Architecture Program
Traditional | Berlin, Germany
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Inspired by Berlin's fascinating architectural transformation and the prolific "often controversial" construction after the fall of the Wall, this program was created for the Architecture students. Berlin is a laboratory for design experimentation. This program acquaints students with the process of rebuilding in one of Europe's key cities and instills a critical attitude towards the physical and cultural context of architecture. Students contrast the recent ultra modern commercial and bureaucratic architecture with the corroded walls and incomplete spaces that still characterize much of the urban landscape.
Today's technologies allow architects to design for building sites they may never visit. What does it mean for an architect to propose a building or to rethink an urban situation in a foreign culture? How do architects develop an appropriate understanding of a place, its history and architecture, in the design process? In Berlin's turbulent context, students combine site analysis with their talent and intuition to design locally relevant solutions.
BERLIN: Freie Universität Berlin
Traditional | Berlin, Germany
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
This program offers an academic calendar consisting of two regular American-style Fall (September-December) and Spring (January-April) semesters, followed by the possibility of enrollment in the FU's Sommersemester (April-July) for students with German language skills at the upper-intermediate or advanced level.
Istanbul, Turkey and Berlin, Germany – Diaspora and Urban Studies in Europe and the Middle East (Closed)
Dialogue of Civilizations | Istanbul, Turkey
Faculty leader: Prof. Berna Turam (b.turam@neu.edu)
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Summer: II
Courses: SOCL3471 Social Conflict & Community Services Abroad and INTL4944 Berlin-Istanbul Dialogue of Civilizations: Diaspora and Urban Studies in Europe and the Middle East
Description:
This program will provide students with an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the contrasting issues surrounding the Turkish migrant population in Berlin, Germany, and the counter understanding of these immigration issues from Istanbul. The second part of the program will extend to Istanbul, the largest metropolitan area in Turkey.
In both cities, our focus will remain on socio-political contestation in urban space over religion, gender, class and possibly ethnicity. Put differently, we will explore how urban space, specifically neighborhood, is contested by ordinary people, who differ and/or disagree over religion, gender and class? Students will read an exciting literature and be encouraged to ask questions about neighborhood politics. In what ways and why are urban space and political processes intimately mapped onto each other? Under what conditions and why does it become difficult to share the city and/or a particular neighborhood? What are the similarities and differences between minority/diaspora neighborhoods (such as Kreuzberg Germany and Tesvikiye in Istanbul) and less contested homogeneous urban space? What role does gentrification play in all of this urban politics?
Multiple Locations – German Language and Culture (CANCELED)
Dialogue of Civilizations | Hamburg, Germany
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Faculty Leader: Maren Blanchard (m.blanchard@neu.edu)
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Summer II
Courses: German Culture (course number TBA) and GRMNxxxx depending on language level
Description:
The Berlin Dialogue provides students with an intensive instruction in German. Students will attend intensive language classes each weekday morning at a highly - accredited language institute.
In addition students will get an inside view of German Culture, engage with Professor Blanchard while experiencing a variety of things, such as: many interesting guided tours, meeting students their ages of different heritage (who were born and grew up in Berlin), talking to witnesses to history, getting to know the historical and modern Berlin.
Berlin has always been a vibrant and exciting city but since the reunification in 1989, Berlin has developed into one of the most fascinating cities in the world.
Multiple Locations in Germany/Poland: Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Closed)
Dialogue of Civilizations | Berlin, Germany
Faculty co-leaders: Professor Natalie Bormann (who grew up in Germany) & Veronica Czastkiewicz (who holds dual Polish-US citizenship) (germanypolanddialogue@gmail.com)
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Summer II
Courses: POLS4937: Government and Politics Learning Abroad in Germany and Poland and INTL4944: Dialogue of Civilizations: The role of Trauma and Collective Memory in Europe today
Description:
This program offers students immersion into the role and legacy of the Holocaust in Germany and Poland – as one of the most significant and traumatic topics of Europe’s shared history and politics.
Students will visit: Munich, Nuremberg, Berlin, Warsaw and Krakow
Activities include: concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau, former Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, Schindler’s factory, Nuremberg Trial courtrooms, Hitler’s Mountain retreat, Anne Frank Centre, Guided bike tour of Nazi sites in Berlin, Meeting the Chief Rabbi of Poland, cultural trips to Neuschwanenstein castle and Villa Wannsee
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VALLENDAR: WHU, Otto Beisheim School of Management
Traditional | Vallendar, Germany
Study Abroad Coordinator: Colleen Boyle (c.boyle@neu.edu)
The school is AACSC, EQUIS and FIBAA-accredited. WHU's Master program was assessed to be the best in Germany in the Financial Times Master in Management Ranking 2010. All of our graduate courses as well as 80% of the undergraduate courses are taught in English. Our academic calendar complies with the American model (please see also term dates). Apart from that, our Career Service is 100% accessible for exchange students. We also offer Summer Institutes for MBA as well as for Bachelor-students.
WHU has established a unique student-exchange network with more than 170 universities around the world. No other German university-level institution comes close to enjoying so many active and high-quality partnerships.