International Summer Academy "Sans Souci" | ISAS

As part of the program, students will attend both language and subject courses:

• German language and phonetics
• Seminars and projects

During the German language course, students will expand their language abilities. The phonetics workshop aims at improving students‘ pronunciation and accentuation.

In the seminars and projects courses, students deal with a cultural-historical and an artistic focus. Students each choose one seminar and one project. The seminar and project courses are accompanied by selected excursions (hybrid formats).

At the end of the program, students present the results from their project and seminar courses with their fellows on a „Ergebnismarkt“.

All courses are held in German language.

German Language

Students will expand their German language skills and prepare for the cultural and historical topics dealt with during seminars and projects. 

Learning objectives:

• Students widen their general-language abilities on the basis of cultural and historical topics
• Students will improve their speaking skills through communicative methods and interactive formats and exercises
• Students will apply their knowledge in grammar and expand their vocabulary with the help of authentic contexts
• Students will practice their listening and reading comprehension skills and develop strategies to improve their writing abilities

Phonetics

The phonetics workshop will enable students to practice their pronunciation, accentuation and intonation through playful exercises.

Seminar

Students choose one seminar dealing with a focus topic.

• Seminar I: Modern German history at an accelerated pace (Syllabus here)
• Seminar II: The division of Germany (Syllabus here)
• Seminar III: Jewish Life in Germany in the past and present (Syllabus here)

The creation of a learning journal or a portfolio (or similar) serves to reflect on what has been learnt. At the end of the program the results will be shared and can be discussed with their fellows.

Project

Students choose one project to engage creatively with a focus topic as a group. At the end of the program, students will present their group work to their fellows.

• Project course I: focus on photography (Syllabus here)
• Project course II: focus on literature (Syllabus here)
• Project course III: focus on theater (Syllabus here)

„Ergebnismarkt“ (Closing Session)

The „results market“ represents the end of the program. Here, participants can show what they have developed and learnt in their projects and seminars. The focus is on the presentations from the project courses. To accompany this, an exhibition area for displaying the results from the seminars (journals) is put in place, which is intended to stimulate discussions and joint reflection among all actors.

In addition to learning activities in the classroom, ISAS offers a varied supporting program:

• Get-together at a student pub
• City Tour Potsdam
• City Tour Berlin
• Excursion to the "Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen"
• Excursion to the surrounding area (tba)

On the Moodle e-learning platform, we provide additional suggestions for virtual cultural offers (e.g. 360-degree museum tours).

•  6 units per day (1 unit equals 45 minutes)
• 18 program days from Monday to Friday
•  2 city tours and 2 excursions on the first two weekends
•   88 contact hours (plus self-study, individual group work and excursions
• Course times: 9:00 am – 03:00 pm

The program fee is € 720.00 (including placement test, teaching material, city tours and excursions, welcome evening and certificate of completion).

Please note that the program fee does not include accommodation or insurance costs. Participants look for accommodation individually during the course and bear the costs themselves. However, there is a limited number of room contingents for the student dormitory.