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.

Seminars and projects allow students to focus on a subject matter. Students will choose one seminar and one project.

Virtual field trips are an additional feature of selected seminars and projects.

At the end of the program, students will share the results of their projects with their fellows.  

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)

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)

In addition to learning activities in the virtual classroom, ISAS offers a varied supporting program. Every week, students have the opportunity to meet each other at the following digital cultural and leisure activities:

• Livestream city tour through the capital Berlin
• Livestream tour in the Museum Barberini in Potsdam
• Livestream tour in the German Historical Museum in Berlin
• Online Escape Game

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

• 6 ECTS
• 20 program days from Monday to Friday with up to 4 live sessions (Zoom) per day (one lesson is 45 minutes)
• The workload for the online summer program is comparable to a regular on-site program with 80 contact hours (plus self-study & group work)

The program fee is 500 € (including all courses, placement test, course material, virtual field trips and certificate of completion).

Please note that accommodation and insurance coverage are not included in the fee.