Course offerings
- German Language Program
(all levels offered; 5 ECTS / 3-4 U.S. credits per level completed) - FU-BEST 1: Contemporary Germany in European Perspective
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 2: Integration, Conflict, and Security in Europe
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 3: History of Central European Classical Music: Baroque to Contemporary
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 4: Perspectives on 20th Century Art in Central Europe
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 5: German Cinema Before 1945
(Fall semester only;
4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 6: The Human Condition and the Totalitarian Experience
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 7: Berlin: History, Memory, Literature
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 8: Modern German History in European Context: A Thematic Approach
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 9a: The Promise of German Philosophy: Kant to Hegel
(Fall semester only;
4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 9b: Tragedy and New Beginnings in German Philosophy: From Marx and Nietzsche to Habermas
(Spring semester only;
4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 10: Islam and Europe: Historical and Contemporary Dimensions
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 11: European Business Cultures: Management and Marketing in Cross-National Perspective
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 12: Architecture in Berlin from the 19th Century to today
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 13: Contemporary Cinema in Germany and Europe
(Spring semester only;
4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 14: Theatermetropole Berlin: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
(in German; Spring semester only;
4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 15: Literatur und Film in Deutschland seit der Wende
(in German; Fall semester only;
4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits ) - FU-BEST 16: Themes and Issues in Transatlantic Relations
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 17: European Legal Traditions
(4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-Best 18: coming soon
- FU-BEST 19: Special Topics Course
(taught by University of Maryland Visiting Professor; Fall semester only;
4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits) - FU-BEST 20: Special Topics Course
(taught by Purdue University Visiting Professor; every other Spring Semester, starting Spring 2009;
4 ECTS / 3 U.S. credits)
