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FUBiS Term II 2025 (June 7 - July 19)

Arrival Day/ Move-In Day: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Departure Day/ Move-Out Day: Saturday, July 19, 2025

You can register until May 10, 2025.

See here for an overview on fees and deadlines.

Interactive course flyer Term II 2025
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Program structure:

  • An A-Track language course can only be combined with a B-Track subject course.
  • An A-Track subject course can only be combined with a B-Track subject course.
  • C- and D-Track courses cannot be combined with other courses.
  • The number of participants in each course is limited to 18 (15 in language courses). In exceptional cases, more participants per class may be allowed.

Course schedule


Printable version of course schedule (pdf)

A-Track Subject Courses

Instructor: Dr. Zishan Ugurlu
Language of instruction:
English
Course type:
Subject course, A-Track
Contact hours:
72 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday & Thursday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all B-Track courses

Course Description

This course is an acting course that introduces the student to the research, writing and performance techniques of cabaret performers.

Kabarett is the German word for "cabaret" but has two different meanings. The first meaning is the same as in English; describing a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theater (often the word "Cabaret" is used in German for this as well to distinguish this form). The latter describes a kind of political satire. Unlike comedians who make fun of all kind of things, Kabarett artists (German: Kabarettisten) pride themselves as dedicated almost completely to political and social topics of more serious nature which they criticize using techniques like cynicism, sarcasm and irony.

As Peter Jelavich stated in his book “Berlin Cabaret (Studies in Cultural History)” that every Metropolis tends to generate an urban mythology and Berlin is no exception. One of the more enduring Fables associated with that city is that it was hotbed for Cabaret.

Students will be seeking to assay that tale by examining Cabaret in Europe and specifically in Berlin from 1901-1944 while creating their own solo performance based on research of sources as such diaries, letters, memoirs, and autobiographies that relate Berlin Kabarett. Subjects can be figures such as Gisela May, Trude Hestberg, Anita Berber, Claire Waldoff, Erwin Piscator, Hugo Ball, Blandine Ebinger, Kurt Weill and are of particular interest to the student.

While studying and analyzing the techniques of a wide variety of cabaret performers through its inception, students will explore aspects of writing monologues and implementing those techniques with the ultimate goal of creating and performing their own material -sense of truth- with the courage necessary to stand-alone on stage.

There will be mandatory field trips* to notable Cabaret/Kabarett shows and venues in the city, which will inspire us visually. In addition to history related readings assignments, the course will incorporate Lisa Appignanesi's "The Cabaret" book for an overall understanding of the forms of artistic cabaret which were to emerge as a meeting place for artists where performance or improvisation takes place among peers, and cabaret as an intimate, small-scale, but intellectually ambitious revue.

The class meets twice a week for three 90-minute segments each day.

The two segments of each class typically involve short lectures on historical and theatrical topics as well as seminar-style discussions of the assigned readings. Some class days devote time to in-depth acting exercises, analyzing the solo performance/cabaret vocabulary and technique. Some class days we will use the afternoon segment for film screenings, excursions to sites in the city or working on your final presentation.

*Please note that students must cover the cost of the entrance tickets on-site at their own expense.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

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Instructor: Dr. Joanna Trammell
Language of instruction:
English
Course type:
Subject course, A-Track
Contact hours: 72 (6 per day)
Course days: Monday & Thursday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all B-Track courses
🌍 Critical global issues addressed in this course: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure (SDG 9); Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12)

Course Description

Sustainable Global Marketing in Berlin explores the integration of global marketing strategies with sustainability principles. Sustainability is a societal issue that involves all stakeholders; this course focuses on organizations that align their business operations with sustainability goals for a variety of reasons, such as government regulations, customer demand, economic viability, or personal conviction. Effectively communicating these efforts to all stakeholders requires the use of global marketing strategies. This course examines the opportunities and challenges associated with marketing across borders and how they are impacted by the social, cultural, economic, political, and technological landscapes. For the purpose of this course the following definition of global marketing will be used: strategies that are designed with a global audience in mind, often developed centrally and then rolled out with minor adjustments for local markets.

By studying in Berlin, students experience first-hand how business differs within the German context (i.e. risk aversion, lack of sugar coating) while gaining a deeper understanding of global marketing.

This experiential course combines in-class learning with out-of-classroom experiences to study how global companies operate in the Berlin. Students will explore and analyze marketing strategies and practices tailored specifically to the German market, will consider cultural diversity of Berlin and evaluate how marketing strategies vary based on language, culture, history, and formal institutions. Emphasis will be placed on cultural localization strategies, and understanding of diverse cultural values, consumer behaviors, and preferences across Berlin and other German regions. Students will explore opportunities to develop sustainable practices within the context of the marketing mix and will develop strategies to adapt marketing campaigns, product offerings, and ways of communication to appeal to local customers.

The course aims to broaden student appreciation of the German market and equips students with foundations and knowledge to understand how global corporations tailor their marketing strategies to appeal to local customers and address sustainability issues. Participants will develop a competitive strategy and a marketing plan for a new product in Berlin.

The major learning goal of this course is for students to cultivate a mindset rooted in sustainable marketing principles, with a deep understanding of the relationship between local, international, and global perspectives.

It relates to the following UN’s Sustainable Goals:

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

The learning objectives supporting the major learning goal are:

  1. Evaluate the social, economic, political, and technological environments of Berlin to inform sustainable marketing strategies.
  2. Analyze local and global perspectives to develop sustainable practices within the context of the marketing mix
  3. Develop a marketing strategy that promotes sustainable consumption and production patterns aligning with the principles of responsible resource use, minimizing environmental impact, and fostering ethical consumer behavior.
Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

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A-Track Language Courses

Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, A-Track
Contact hours:
108 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all B-Track courses

Student Profile

This course is designed for the beginner student with no previous knowledge of German.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will develop basic competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and an understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to deal with a range of everyday situations (in a German-speaking environment) and engage in simple conversations.

  • use reading strategies to understand the main features of short newspaper articles and literary texts.
  • write short texts and revise and correct them independently.
  • understand the main features of conversations and lectures dealing with familiar topics.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

Recommended Course Combinations (Selection)

Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, A-Track
Contact hours:
108 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all B-Track courses

Student Profile

This course is designed for beginners with basic knowledge of German.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will continue to develop and expand basic competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, and your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

  • deal with various everyday situations (in a German-speaking environment) and engage in simple conversations.
  • Successfully use reading strategies to understand short newspaper articles and literary texts.
  • write short texts on various topics and revise and correct them independently.
  • understand, in some detail,  features of conversations and lectures dealing with familiar topics.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

Recommended Course Combinations (Selection)

Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, A-Track
Contact hours:
108 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all B-Track courses

Student Profile

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed the basic level of German and who have a sound knowledge of German at the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will further develop and expand your competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

  • use new strategies for learning and using the German language.
  • participate  in conversations and discussions of various topics in a German-speaking environment.
  • successfully use reading strategies to understand texts of various levels of difficulty and  from a variety of genres.
  • write texts of various length on a range of topics and revise and correct them independently.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

Recommended Course Combinations (Selection) 

Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, A-Track
Contact hours:
108 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all B-Track courses

Student Profile

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed the basic level and the first part of the intermediate level of German and who have a sound knowledge of German at the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will further develop and expand your competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

  • use new strategies for learning and using the German language.
  • participate  in conversations and discussions of various topics in a German-speaking environment.
  • successfully use reading strategies to understand texts of various levels of difficulty and  from a variety of genres.
  • write texts of various length on a range of topics and revise and correct them independently.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

Recommended Course Combinations (Selection) 

Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, A-Track
Contact hours:
108 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all B-Track courses

Student Profile

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed the intermediate level of German and who have a sound knowledge of German at the B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will further develop and expand your competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

  • regularly employ new strategies for learning and using the German language.
  • participate in conversations and discussions of various topics in a German-speaking environment while being aware of the appropriate linguistic register.
  • read and understand texts of various length and from a variety of genres without difficulties
  • to write, independently revise, and correct term papers that meet the basic requirements for academic writing.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

Recommended Course Combinations (Selection)

B-Track Subject Courses

Instructors: Dr. Stefano de Bosio (partially co-taught by Dr. Mėta Valiušaitytė)
Language of instruction:
English
Course type:
Subject course, B-Track
Contact hours: 72 (6 per day)
Course days: Tuesday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all A-Track courses

Course Description

This course explores European art from the 15th to the 20th century with a particular focus on urban centers like Florence, Rome, Venice, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris, London, and Berlin. The aim is to analyze how the visual arts contributed through the centuries to shape local identities as well as European cultural traditions common to different countries and transcultural, global networks.

The course will present iconic moments of the history of the arts in Europe by drawing a special attention to episodes of cultural exchanges and hybridization that arose from travelling artworks as well as from artists’ travels in Europe and beyond. From the role of artists like Raphael and Michelangelo in 16th-century papal Rome to the rise of genre painting in the Flanders and the Dutch Republic of the Golden Age, from the ‘painters of modern life’ in 19th-century Paris to the German Avant-garde of the 1920s, we will analyze the artworks and their authors in relation to the different historical contexts and the places of their creation. Recurrent will be the focus on the complex interplay between artists and patrons, between local traditions, individual creativity and the broader social, political and cultural contexts in which artworks and buildings were produced.

Students will gain understanding of the main art movements and relevant artists from the Renaissance to the postwar period as well as the basic concepts and terminology of art history. Visits to the outstanding collections of Berlin museums (according to Covid-19 regulations) will allow the participants to study in depth specific artifacts and to learn how to look closely at works of art.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

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Instructor: Dr. Thomas R. Henschel
Language of instruction:
English
Course type:
Subject course, B-Track
Contact hours
: 72 (6 per day)
Course days: Tuesday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all A-Track courses
🌍 Critical global issues addressed in this course: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16)

Course Description

To successfully overcome the multiple challenges of our time, people must cooperate peacefully with one another. Otherwise, we as humanity will not be able to cope with climate change, ensure equal access to resources and shape a future in which peace, self-determination, freedom, and prosperity are possible.

In this course we discuss what it takes and how it is possible for people to cooperate with each other, solve problems collaboratively and resolve conflicts peacefully. The course examines the different conditions and models for cooperation. To this end, the latest results from cognitive and behavioral research, psychology, sociology, game and systems theory as well as complexity theory are presented and their relevance for creating conditions for cooperation is examined. Building on the scientific foundations, theories and methods for the peaceful resolution of differences and conflicts are then introduced. The focus here is on mediative skills and international peace mediation. However, cooperation and conflict resolution are not just knowledge, but can and must be learned and trained. In the course, students are given the opportunity to transform the knowledge they have learned into concrete skills through role plays and exercises. The experiences gained in the exercises are reflected on together. In this way, knowledge does not remain external, but is linked to concrete experiences. This creates the basis for implementing what has been learned.

The concrete practical relevance is further strengthened by two visits to Berlin NGOs that are active in international peace work. We will also invite guest speakers from the practice of international peace policy and discuss with them. Subject to availability, international guest speakers may also be invited to join the course via video conference.

Berlin has a very special significance for international peace work due to its history. Especially here, students can experience how a society dealt with its own through the Holocaust, war crimes, collapse, liberation, and new beginnings. These experiences will be embedded by visiting memorial sites in Berlin and students will thus be able to use concrete history to shape the future.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

Recommended Course Combinations (Selection)

Instructor: Dr. Robert G. Waite
Language of instruction:
English
Course type:
Subject course, B-Track
Contact hours
: 72 (6 per day)
Course days: Tuesday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all A-Track courses

Course Description

The ‘Thousand Year Reich’ promised by Hitler when he became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 lasted but 12 years. During this time, Hitler and his Nazi Party came to dominate the continent, terrorized vast numbers of Germans and Europeans, launched a devastating war, dominated and laid waste to much of Europe, and orchestrated the murder of more than five million Jews. Despite the terror and vast destruction, Hitler and the Nazi Party gained and retained the active support and involvement of most Germans. How was this possible? What roles did seduction and terror, consent and coercion, play?

This class focuses on Hitler’s Germany, and it begins with the 19th century background. Central to this session will be a discussion of the broad political currents, the agitators and petty demagogues who fueled the dissatisfaction and spread it widely. We will also examine the popular literature that Hitler and many of his supporters read and absorbed.

Crucial to understanding the lure of Hitler and the Nazi Party was Germany’s experience in the First World War, a conflict that decimated a generation and destroyed Europe as it was known. In its wake it left a shattered, humiliated, and deeply torn Germany. In this climate of uncertainty and despair, Hitler and the Nazi Party grew from a small group on the fringe of radical politics in Munich into a national force. This development is of central importance to this session. Those traits of Hitler crucial to his success, particularly his charisma, will be defined and analyzed within the broader political context of Weimar political and cultural life.

In late January 1933, Hitler gained the long desired but elusive goal: he became chancellor of Germany, the leader of a coalition government. The political intrigues leading to his appointment will be discussed. Much attention will be paid in this session to how Hitler, his cabinet, and supporters were able to consolidate the control over the state and society within a matter of months. This came at the cost of political liberties, through the growing use of terror, oppression, and intimidation. Yet, Hitler gained supporters as he seemingly offered economic stability and a new unity to the German people. How did the regime solidify its control over society and over political life? Was it seduction or terror, consent or coercion?

A key element of Hitler’s rule was the concentration camp system, what came to be a vast network of prisons, centers of oppression and death. How this developed from the hundreds of small concentration camps set up in Berlin and across Germany shortly after Hitler’s takeover of power in 1933 to the well-organized and highly centralized system by 1939 will be the focus of this session. During the war, the concentration camp system spread across Germany and occupied Europe.

Hitler’s ambitions, the conquest of ‘living space’ in Eastern Europe, the ruthless exploitation of these territories, and the annihilation of the Jews, motivated his foreign ambitions and led directly to World War II, the most destructive conflict in human history. We will also discuss the measures taken against the handicapped, homosexuals, Sinti and Roma within Germany and in the occupied territories.

In Germany and in occupied Europe opposition and resistance emerged and challenged Nazi rule. Opponents were motivated by a variety of reasons, some personal, some political. These too will be discussed as well as the regime’s ruthless efforts to eradicate all opposition.

Lastly, the class will examine the end of the war, the so-called ‘zero hour’, the destruction and collapse of Nazi Germany. Soon, the reckoning with the Nazi past through investigations and criminal prosecutions, and the widespread non-reckoning among the German public, began. Only since the late 1960s has Germany looked openly and critically at its Nazi past and only then began establishing a series of memorials and monuments, a number of which we will be visiting.

We will be visiting local museums, historical sites and locations that reveal the operations and nature of Nazi rule. These visits to sites in and near Berlin are a key element of the class and the experience of studying here. Please note that field trips are subject to change depending on the availability of appointments and speakers; on field trip days, class hours may be adjusted.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

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Instructor: Dr. Lauren van Vuuren
Language of instruction:
English
Course type:
Subject course, B-Track
Contact hours
: 72 (6 per day)
Course days: Tuesday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 8
Course fee:
€ 1,850
Can be combined with all A-Track courses
🌍 Critical global issues addressed in this course: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16)

Course Description

In this course we examine the emergence of mainly youth-led resistance and protest movements in post-World War II Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and attempt to understand their origins, their meaning and their effect on the societies in which they occurred.

American counterculture in the 1960s is often associated with rock’n’roll music, drug-taking, ’dropping out’ and the Anti-Vietnam protest movement. In Europe the associations are more complex and include countercultures in places like West Germany and Italy that are remembered for planting bombs and joining underground terror cells in the name of the New Left, or more extreme iterations of the New Left. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, in places like Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, anti-government protesters faced a very different, more dangerous existential struggle against authoritarian regimes that utilised torture and detention without trial to mute or prevent social uprisings.

In this course we account for the nature and intensity of post-war European protest movements by examining the historical context of the traumatic impact of recently defeated fascism on the continent, and the division of Europe into spheres of interest reflecting the Cold War world. We examine the post-war socio-economic developments that led to the massive expansion of higher education in Western Europe, promoting a generational divide which saw a radicalized younger generation turn on their parents and other members of the older (Nazi) generation or the so called ‘system’, sometimes in rage and violence, as in the examples of the Red Army Faction in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy. We compare this to examples in Eastern Europe, where resistance movements against Communist regimes, such as in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, were met with deadly force and violent oppression.

The course keeps as its particular focus East Germany (GDR) and West Germany (FRG), but we will also encounter the student-led uprisings against Sovietized Communism in Hungary in 1956 and during the 1968 ‘Prague Spring’, as well as the complex case of dissident movements in the USSR itself. Throughout the course, the city of Berlin will serve as a backdrop: as a place of often very radical anti-government movements in West Berlin, compared with the muted and hidden resistance to authority over the Berlin Wall in East Berlin. We will also examine how ‘resistance’ in Western Europe often meant solidarity with anti-colonial movements in the Middle East, Africa and South America. Last but not least, we will also discuss the gestation and rise, within these larger movements, of political parties such as the Green Party in Germany.

Some of the major questions in this course will be: how did the concept of ‘resistance’ and ‘rebellion’ differ between Western Europe and Eastern Bloc countries? How did dramatic changes after World War II in education, technology and popular culture inspire young people to question authority and choreograph that questioning into mass movements? What were the terms and concepts (the language, the writers and the thinkers) that they utilised to justify their struggle? How did these movements become violent? When were they productive and inspiring, when did they career into nihilism and destruction? What were, if any, the long-term effects on their societies and political institutions? And finally, in our current world of enormous economic inequality and environmental destruction, what can we learn from the radicals and resisters of the second half of the twentieth century in Europe, about the potential for productive protest and resistance today?

As source materials we will read historical accounts and analyses, contemporary sources such as communiques and newspaper articles, watch films, and go on outings in Berlin that will take us to the scenes of some of the most dramatic confrontations of this era. Being at Freie Universität is a good start – it was at this university that some of the most radical student activism of the 1960s occurred.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

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C-Track Language Courses

Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, C-Track
Contact hours:
180 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 12
Course fee:
€ 2,675

Student Profile

This course is designed for the beginner student with no previous knowledge of German. This course is intensive and is intended for dedicated, highly self-motivated students who will take responsibility for their learning.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will develop basic competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and an understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to

  • deal with a range of everyday situations (in a German-speaking environment) and engage in simple conversations.
  • use reading strategies to understand the main features of short newspaper articles and literary texts.
  • write short texts and revise and correct them independently.
  • understand the main features of conversations and lectures dealing with familiar topics.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)
Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, C-Track
Contact hours:
180 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 12
Course fee:
€ 2,675

Student Profile

This course is designed for beginners with basic knowledge of German. This course is intensive and is intended for dedicated, highly self-motivated students who will take responsibility for their learning.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will continue to develop and expand basic competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, and your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

  • deal with various everyday situations (in a German-speaking environment) and engage in simple conversations.
  • Successfully use reading strategies to understand short newspaper articles and literary texts.
  • write short texts on various topics and revise and correct them independently.
  • understand, in some detail, features of conversations and lectures dealing with familiar topics.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)
Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, C-Track
Contact hours:
180 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 12
Course fee:
€ 2,675

Student Profile

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed the basic level of German and who have a sound knowledge of German at the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This course is intensive and is intended for dedicated, highly self-motivated students who will take responsibility for their learning.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will further develop and expand your competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

  • use new strategies for learning and using the German language.
  • participate in conversations and discussions of various topics in a German-speaking environment.
  • successfully use reading strategies to understand texts of various levels of difficulty and from a variety of genres.
  • write texts of various length on a range of topics and revise and correct them independently.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)
Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, C-Track
Contact hours:
180 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 12
Course fee:
€ 2,675

Student Profile

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed the basic level and the first part of the intermediate level of German and who have a sound knowledge of German at the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This course is intensive and is intended for dedicated, highly self-motivated students who will take responsibility for their learning.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will further develop and expand your competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

  • use new strategies for learning and using the German language.
  • participate in conversations and discussions of various topics in a German-speaking environment.
  • successfully use reading strategies to understand texts of various levels of difficulty and from a variety of genres.
  • write texts of various length on a range of topics and revise and correct them independently.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)
Language of instruction: German
Course type:
Language course, C-Track
Contact hours:
180 (6 per day)
Course days
: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
ECTS credits
: 12
Course fee:
€ 2,675

Student Profile

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed the intermediate level of German and who have a sound knowledge of German at the B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This course is intensive and is intended for dedicated, highly self-motivated students who will take responsibility for their learning.

Course Objectives

This course focuses on encounters with various written, spoken and audio-visual texts and exchanges with other course participants. You will further develop and expand your competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as your understanding of German culture while being enabled to learn reflectively and strategically. The course addresses cultural, political, and historical aspects of the city of Berlin and the German-speaking countries, which you will analyze and compare with your own background and experiences. At the end of the course, you will be able to 

  • regularly employ new strategies for learning and using the German language.
  • participate in conversations and discussions of various topics in a German-speaking environment while being aware of the appropriate linguistic register.
  • read and understand  texts of various length and from a variety of genres without difficulties
  • to write, independently revise, and correct term papers that meet the basic requirements for academic writing.

Download Syllabus (printable PDF incl. day-to-day schedule)

Class times

Weekdays Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday
Wednesday

Teaching Hours

  9:00 - 10:30 am
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
2:00 - 3:30 pm

9:00 am - 3:30 pm
(on field trip days adaptation of class times possible)

Check your English language skills

To find out if your English skills are sufficient to follow our subject courses, feel free to watch the following video. The language level of the video represents the level used in our courses. If you are not able to understand the video to a large extent, we don’t recommend a participation in an English-speaking subject course. In that case, how about a German Language course?