Description

The Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University (FUBiS) is an intensive, academic program through which students can earn credits that may be counted towards their degrees at their home institutions. FUBiS sessions run for 4 to 6 weeks and take place both in summer and winter. Emphasis is placed on the Humanities / Social Sciences and German language.

It is FUBiS' mission to provide international students with a premier study abroad program delivering the highest academic quality and furthering the development of intercultural competency skills.

FUBiS' goal is to provide a stimulating and rewarding experience - academically, culturally, and personally.

Highlights

Every year FUBiS offers more than 45 courses both subject and German classes that are open to undergraduate and graduate students. Subject classes typically cover aspects of history, politics, literature, architecture and art, cultural studies, and business.

The FUBiS program offers students many choices:
* Combination of language and subject classes. This allows students to improve their language skills as well as further their knowledge of a subject matter.
* Combination of two subject classes which may count toward a major or minor at the home institution.
* Intensive German language classes. These classes meet every weekday and allow students to focus on and thus considerably improve their German skills.
* Participation in either one semi-intensive German class or in one subject class.

Here is a sample of courses:
* German language courses at five different proficiency levels
* Deutsche Exilliteratur (in German language)
* Understanding the European Union: Internal and External Affairs
* Sustainability Law and Governance
* Geschäftssprache Deutsch (Business German in German language)
* Global Politics: How to Cope with a World in Disarray?
* Architecture In Berlin: A Walk through History
* "Islam & the West" - The Pitfalls of Mapping the World
* Seduction and Terror: The Third Reich
* European Business Management
* Metropole Berlin in Literatur und Kultur von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart (in German language)
* Art of the Western World: From Ancient Sculpture to Action Painting

Study visits to museums and memorials as well as to political and cultural institutions within Berlin are an integral part of all our courses. In addition, FUBiS offers field trips along the former Berlin Wall, to the Berlin Reichstag, or on a riverboat tour through downtown Berlin as well as day and weekend excursions to Hamburg, Dresden, Weimar and other destinations.

Languages

• German

Languages Used as a Medium of Teaching

• German
• English

Subject Areas

Cost in US$:

Tuition Fee ranging from 900 - 2,025 Euro; Program Fee 200 - 250 Euro

Program Fees Include:

* The Tuition Fee includes, next to the class, the course-related field work and the course reading material (reader).

* The Program Fee includes:
- Official FUBiS transcript
- Guided Tour through the Reichstag Building and the Federal Parliament
- River Boat Tour through Downtown Berlin (only offered in Summer)
- Weekly Movietime presenting popular and well-known German Movies
- Student ID
- Access to libraries and computing (incl. Internet) and printing facilities on the campus
- Welcome and farewell buffet

Credit Available

yes

Experience Required

no

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Apartment/Flat
• Group living
• Home-stays
• Independent living
• Other

Participants Travel

Independently

Scholarships are Available

Scholarships may be available, please contact FUBiS for further information.

Post Services Include

• Alumni Network

Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University (FUBiS)'s Mission Statement

It is FUBiS' mission to provide international students with a premier study abroad program delivering the highest academic quality and furthering the development of intercultural competency skills. FUBiS' goal is to provide a stimulating and rewarding experience - academically, culturally, and personally.

Year Founded

1997