SUMMER SESSION 2008

Program Dates:
Session 1: May 31 - July 12, 2008
Session 2: July 19 - August 16, 2008

Credits: 3 to 6 undergraduate credits

Academic Offering: Students take courses taught in English in the Social Sciences and Humanities or German language courses.

Session 1 Program

Students can take courses in both Track A and Track B, but can not take a Track A or Track B course with Track C.

Track A (3 UM credits each):

• Studies in Literature and Popular Culture Berlin: 100 Years in the Culture Industry
• Music in Berlin: Three Centuries of Tradition and Innovation at the Crossroads of Europe
• German Exile Literature - Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Theodor W. Adorno
• German Language Course (at all levels)

Track B (3 UM credits each):

• European-American Encounters in Film/Visual Culture: From the Cold War to 9-11, Focus on Germany
• Jewish Life in Berlin: History and Culture from the 17th Century to the Present
• Representing the Nation: The Modern Artist and Germany (Art History)
• Understanding the European Union - Internal & External Affairs
• Music Composition - Compose, Rehearse & Perform
• Borders and Crossings: German Literature and Culture from Romanticism to the Present
• German Language Course (at all levels)

Track C (5 UM credits):

• Intensive German Language (at all levels)

Session 2 Program

Students can take courses in both Track A and Track B, but can not take a Track A or Track B course with Track C.

Track A (2 UM credits each):

• Architecture in Berlin in the Course of History
• German Philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas
• The European Union in the 21st Century - Internal & External Challenges
• Berlin: East meets West
• Global Politics: How to Cope with a World in Disarray?
• Metropolis Berlin in Literature and Culture from the Turn of the Century to 1945
• German Language Course (at all levels)

Track B (2 UM credits each):

• Art in Berlin: From Romanticism to Expressionism
• The Third Reich: Seduction and Terror
• Intercultural Dialogue or Clash of Civilizations: Islam and the West. Exploring cultural differences and commonalities
• Aesthetics of Belonging: Representing Nation and State in Europe Since 1750
• Berlin Today: Photographing the Multicultural City
• The Art of Resisting the Third Reich: Retracing History through Peter Weiss’ novel “Aesthetics of Resistance”
• Cinema City Berlin
• Metropolis Berlin in Literature and Culture from 1945 to the Present

Track C (4 UM credits):

• Intensive German Language (at all levels)

Accommodations:   Students are housed in a single room in shared apartments in a student dorm, a single room in Berlin-Lichterfelde or a homestay with a Berlin host family.

Estimated Costs:  $1,350 (estimated), per credit. Students also pay a program fee of $450 to $1,300 for their housing in Berlin. This fee is paid directly to the Freie Universität Berlin.

Application deadline: March 1

For further information, please contact IEEP advisor Contact Jasmine Phillips at 305-284-4175 or at j.phillips4@miami.edu.