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Germanic Studies in Berlin – Travel and Adventure in Early German Prose
Final application deadline
January 18, 2012.
Find out more more
Attend a mingler event hosted by the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies on Friday, January 6 from 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. in Buchanan Tower 218 to learn more about the program, meet the faculty leading the program, get your questions answered and eat some free cookies!
Summary
The Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies is offering a new group study program in partnership with the Free University of Berlin, in the summer of 2012. This program is designed for undergraduate students with a focus on German literature and culture from a historical viewpoint.
The program director, Prof. Gaby Pailer from the Department of CENES, will offer two courses specifically designed for the study group, GERM 408B: Travel and Adventure in Early German Prose; and GERM 313: Academic Discourse in German. In addition, you will enroll in a course at the Free University of Berlin. The program director will lead field trips in Berlin and, upon the end of the teaching term, to the German south.
This group study program will have up to 20 student participants.
Eligibility
- You should have completed GERM 210 or possess the equivalent level of the German language.
- If you lack the pre-requisite language class, you may be eligible but will need to demonstrate the required level of German language.
- Courses are offered without prerequisites, and are suitable for third- to fourth-year students from a variety of majors.
Language of instruction
- German & English
Term offered
- April 29 – July 22, 2012
Program fee
Approximately $3,200 - $3,500 program fee* includes:
- Accommodation
- Field trips and cultural activities
- Two group meals
- $371 Go Global fee
Not included:
- Transportation to and from Berlin
- All but two group meals
- UBC tuition for 9 credits
- Immunizations
- Visas
- Spending money
- Health or travel insurance
You should budget at least $1,400 - $1,800 for a return flight to Berlin. You will also need some spending money for snacks, souvenirs, phone calls and Internet use, personal travel, and meals during free time. Personal spending will likely vary.
*Program fee is dependent upon the number of students enrolled in the program.
Funding
This program is partially funded by the Arts Research Course Abroad Award Program (ARCAAP), provided by the Faculty of Arts. You will automatically be considered for this funding upon submission of your application to the program; there is no need to apply separately for this award. If you're selected to participate in the program you will receive details regarding any potential funding we can offer you with your offer of participation to the group study program.
Eligible applicants are:
- Upper-year Faculty of Arts students
- Based on the UBC Vancouver campus
- Registered as a Major in Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
Other Majors in closely related disciplines may be considered.
Courses
GERM 408B will focus on four prose works dealing with the motifs of travel and adventure from the 13th to the 17th century. You will analyse the way these works reflect the cultural and political history of central Europe, including the medieval feudal system with its gender and class limitations (E. von Nassau-Saarbrücken, Königin Sibille; Wernher der Gärtner, Helmbrecht); the Renaissance notion of transgressing religious boundaries and claiming pleasure in knowledge (anonymous, Faust); and the challenging times of war as the context of the Baroque period (Grimmelshausen, Courage). All four readings also form examples of the different research approaches in European and North American Germanic Studies as well as in Cultural and Gender Studies.
GERM 313 will focus on the different modes of academic discourse in European and North American Germanic Studies, and will serve as a tutorial of students’ elective course work at FUB.
The course at FUB is "Faustus and Religious Knowledge in the 16th Century". This course will offer an in-depth study of one of the readings of GERM 408B, the Historia von D. Johann Fausten. The course will focus on religious aspects in the context of Renaissance discussions of Catholicism and Protestantism, but interrelating the discussion with modern theories of gender and violence.
Application
- The application deadline for this program is January 18, 2012 at 4:30 pm.
- Applications are now open and can be initiated online via the Go Global Gateway application system.
If you need to log in to complete your application once you have started it, or to view your application, please access this section of the Go Global Gateway application system. - If you encounter any problems submitting your application via the Go Global Gateway, please direct them to Kerri Leeper at kerri.leeper@ubc.ca
- Eligible applicants will be invited for an interview prior to being accepted into the program.
Please send any questions about applying to this program to Kerri Leeper, Group Study Program Coordinator at Go Global at kerri.leeper@ubc.ca.
Withdrawals and Refunds
If you decide to withdraw your application following submission, you need to make this request in writing by email to Kerri Leeper <kerri.leeper@ubc.ca>, the Group Study Program Coordinator. Please be sure to consult the Group Study Refund Policy terms.
