Berlin, Germany
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Academic level: Undergraduate
Program dates: June 1 – July 14, 2012
Priority application deadline: March 1st
General application deadline: April 2nd
Please note: Applications will be accepted after the March 1st priority deadline on a space-available basis.
Total credits: 8 points
Program focus: German Language, Literature, Cinema, History & Politics.
“My favorite part was being in and experiencing Berlin both through my classes and my own exploration.” – Summer 2011 student
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Program Directors
Thomas Ertman, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology.
PROGRAM SUMMARY
At NYU Summer in Berlin, students experience a cosmopolitan city that holds a complex and crucial place in modern European history. One can encounter this past not just in the city's many museums and in the memories of its inhabitants, but also in its architecture: the palaces of the baroque, rococo and romantic periods, the monumental government buildings and workers' tenements of the Wilhelminian Empire, the modernist structures of the Weimar Republic, the massive ministries and Olympic Stadium of the Third Reich, ruins from World War II, the showcase developments-and the Wall-constructed during the Cold War.
Today, Berlin is at a particularly exciting moment of transition, reclaiming its historical role as Germany's capital and as the political, cultural, and economic intermediary between Eastern and Western Europe. Massive construction projects reflect this development and offer some of the most exciting new architecture in the world. Berlin is a thoroughly modern but affordable city with outstanding museums and a lively theatre and music scene; it also has an efficient public transportation system, an international cuisine, and a vibrant nightlife.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
The academic program, built around Berlin's rich culture, features an Intensive Beginning German course designed to provide students with fundamental German skills in only six weeks by immersing them in the life and language of the city. For those who already have some knowledge of German, Summer in Berlin offers further non-intensive language courses at all levels of instruction. In addition, two content courses offer students the opportunity to explore through walking tours and site trips the remnants of either post-war division or of Hitler’s Reich still found in Germany’s capital.
HOUSING & MEALS
The NYU in Berlin academic center in the KulturBrauerei is a converted former brewery complex in the district of Prenzlauer Berg. It is a multi-story building featuring classrooms, offices, art studio space, a lounge and a computer lab. All students participating in the program are required to live in NYU-provided apartments, located in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Schöneberg, not far from the bustling Potsdamer Platz. Each student will have his or her own studio apartment, fully equipped with kitchen and private bathroom with shower.
EXCURSIONS
Aside from excursions in and around the city of Berlin, students will take a day trip to Dresden and a weekend trip to Prague. In Prague, students will explore the traces of three cultures-Czech, German, and Jewish-on a three-day weekend. A remarkably preserved city, Prague combines medieval, baroque, and modern influences. Located on the river Vltava, the city's thousand years of architectural and artistic history are reflected in its stone facades and cobblestone streets. Students will visit Kafka's house, the old Jewish cemetery, or just experience the city's lively atmosphere and its contemporary cultural scene.
CONTACT INFO
NYU Office of Global Programs
110 East 14th Street, LOWER LEVEL
New York, NY 10003
t: 212-998-4433
f: 212-995-4103
summer.in.berlin@nyu.edu