Using Berlin as a case study, this English-taught program examines issues relevant to major cities today. Through comparative and interdisciplinary courses, students study topics such as cultural identity, popular culture, and urban development to better understand the modern city and its culture. Students also have the option to take a German language course.
Elective Courses
- Bio-Politics and Migration in the 21st Century
- Urban Design and Sustainability
- Evolution of the Modern City: Urban Development and Architecture
- Art and Society: Germany in the 20th Century
- German Popular Culture
- Urban Identities in Contemporary Europe
- Jewish Life in Berlin: Past and Present
- The Circular Economy
- Designing the Sustainable City
- Transatlantic Cinema: Germany and the U.S.
- German Language (multiple levels)
- Gender in Historical Perspective: Berlin Past & Present
- Espionage and Diplomacy in International Politics
- German Political Thought
- Museums and Memories: The Practice of Public History in Berlin
- Security in Europe: Actors and Challenges
- Germany in the Global Economy
- Europe and the Middle East
- Europe in Crisis? Perspectives on the current state of the EU
- Building Walls: Borders, Violence & Separation
- The Entrepreneurial City: Strategies of Urban Governance
- The Politics of Urban Space