Spring/Summer Engineering Track
This special spring/summer track is designed to give students in all engineering majors (biomedical, civil and environmental, electrical, and mechanical) an opportunity to develop advanced proficiency in German through intensive language study in January through March, and take engineering courses in their major at the Technische Universität in Berlin (T.U.B) from April through July. Only one year of college level German is required to participate.
The January course is a 4-week, 1 credit course, entitled GERMAN 213A (68): Intensive Intermediate German for Engineers. It will be taught in Berlin by faculty at the Technische Universität. (Students with advanced language preparation are encouraged to join the January cohort and may take a level-appropriate tutorial that will acquaint them with engineering terminology.) Students will stay with German families, attend cultural outings, and participate in excursions to technical museums, power plants, automobile plants and environmental institutions.
Following this course, students will feed into the advanced language course (GERMAN 319AS (151S): Advanced Intensive German) that begins the regular Duke in Berlin spring semester program. This course, which runs until the beginning of the regular German university semester in mid-April, enables students to develop advanced proficiency in German. Engineering students who have had Intensive Intermediate German for Engineers, as well as the Advanced Intensive German course, will be well qualified to take up to two engineering courses in their field at the Technische Universität.
Courses at the Technische Universität run from mid-April until late July, so students who begin in January will have had three months of intensive language study plus total immersion in the German language and culture before beginning the content courses. Students who participate in the January course and continue on through July can earn up to 6 course credits.
Students participating in the program would also be eligible for the International Honors Program in Engineering.
