German

CC in Berlin

2025-26

Welcome to the CC in Berlin program! Email us anytime if you have questions related to the program @ csteckenbiller@coloradocollege.edu, clisiecki@coloradocollege, or hpb@coloradocollege.edu. Applications are due in Summit by March 15. You should also check out this blog about the program: https://www.humboldt-institut.org/en/blog/a-semester-abroad-at-a-language-school-part-1/

Berlin Abroad

The CC in Berlin program will take place in Blocks 1 through 4 in Fall 2025. There are no prerequisites, so students at any level of German can participate! If you participate for the whole semester you will take two German language classes at your level (from complete beginner to advanced, fulfills the all-college language requirement). In addition you will take classes on the cultural history of Berlin called "Babylon Berlin: From Rural Village to Global Metropolis" (taught by Prof. Ane Steckenbiller) and "Global Berlin: Film, City & Identity" (taught by Prof. Baran Germen). The first courses fulfills the all-college AIM requirement, Analysis and Interpretation of Meaning. The second course fulfills EPG, Equity and Power Global. There is no program fee for full semester students who are already paying CC tuition and standard room & board.

Schedule for fall 2025:

August 18: Mandatory pre-departure orientation over Zoom to go over last-minute items and answer questions

August 24: Arrive in Berlin

Block 1 (August 25 - September 17)

Weeks 1-2: GR120: Babylon Berlin Part 1 (fulfills AIM)
Weeks 3-4: Intensive language class 1, including field trips (at your appropriate level, fulfills LANG)
*No Block Break--classes will continue until Friday, September 19*

Block 2 (September 22 - October 15)

Weeks 1-3: Intensive language class 1 (continued)

*For students returning to CC after block 2, the last day of the block is Friday, October 10. You must check out of the Humboldt Institute by Sunday, October 12*

*For students staying the whole semester, you will have Fall Break from October 11-October 19*

Block 3 (October 20 - November 12)

Weeks 1-4: GR220: Global Berlin: Film, City, and Identity (fulfills EPG)
November 13-16: Block break

Block 4 (November 17 - December 17)

Weeks 1-3: Intensive language class 2 (fulfills LANG)
*No Fall Break, classes continue*
Weeks 4-5: GR121: Babylon Berlin Part 2 (fulfills AIM)

Wednesday, December 17: Last day of classes, official end of program

Friday, December 19: Must be moved out of Humboldt Institute by this date

When students study on the full CC Semester in Germany (all 4 blocks), the tuition remains the same as the standard CC tuition for that semester, and a program fee is charged to cover room, some board, field trips, and the like. This program fee is charged instead of any CC on-campus housing placement and meal plan, which will not be assigned or charged for that semester.

For the 2024-25 academic year, the Program Fee for the full semester off-campus is $5175. The 2025-26 program fee is TBD.

Billing for CC-Led Semester & Half-Semester Programs

https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/globalandfieldstudy/global-education/semesters-off-campus/financial-aid-and-billing.html

When a student participates in a CC Half-Semester (two-block) program, the tuition remains the same as the standard CC tuition for that semester, and the program fee charge varies, based on the student's on-campus housing assignment and meal plan choice for that semester, as described below.

The program fee covers: additional room & board expense for the two blocks abroad, RT airfare, field trips, international health & emergency insurance, and the like. Airfare is always covered for every CC Half-Semester abroad, and students will be able to book that covered airfare through our partnership with ScholarTrip, once you are accepted to the program and confirm your participation spot.

Will I Be Charged a Half-Semester Program Fee?

Students who live on campus during the semester their program abroad runs, and who have a full standard meal plan do not pay any additional program fee. All housing and meal costs as well as RT airfare, insurance, and field trips during the CC half-semester away are covered by funds transferred from the room & board charges already paid to Colorado College.

Students who live in a campus cottage or apartment and use the apartment meal plan will be billed a supplemental program fee to contribute towards their room, board, airfare, insurance, and field trip costs on the CC half-semester program. For 2024-2025, this fee is $1,011.

Students who live in CC campus housing and opt for no CC meal plan will be billed a supplemental program fee to contribute towards their room, board, airfare, insurance, and field trip costs on the CC half-semester program. For 2024-2025, this fee is $1,250.

Students who live off campus, with no meal plan will be billed a program fee to cover their room, board, airfare, insurance, and field trip costs on the CC half-semester program. For 2024-2025, this fee is $2,600.

Student financial aid is not adjusted for these additional program fees. Students should anticipate covering these costs either from their standard aid package (i.e., even if you are living off-campus with no meal plan, your need-based aid award from CC may have included money for meals that can be redirected to this program fee, for example), or through personal finances.

Email Prof. Ane Steckenbiller @ csteckenbiller@coloradocollege.edu for more information.

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