International Summer and Winter University FUBiS at Freie Universität Berlin Welcomes Students to the Lankwitz Campus
138 Students from 14 Countries
№ 149/2019 from May 26, 2019
A new term of FUBiS, the International Summer and Winter University of Freie Universität Berlin, started on Sunday with 138 students from 14 countries. During the six-week term, the students will attend German language classes and other subjects. Most of the students are from the United States, Canada, Singapore and Lebanon. The term will run until July 6.
At FUBiS the students can choose between German language classes and various other classes taught in English, or a combination of the two. There are seminars on a variety of topics, including the history of Germany during National Socialism, the European Union, European art history and the history of architecture, as well as creative topics such as music and cabaret in in Berlin.
For all the FUBiS courses, Freie Universität Berlin awards credits according to the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) system. Upon successful completion, the students receive up to 12 ECTS credits that can be accepted by their home university toward the degree program.
The academic program also includes field trips, including a boat trip on the Spree River, a street art tour, a guided tour to the scenes of the student movement of 1968, and a guided tour of the Reichstag. In addition, the participants can also take daylong excursions and weekend trips to Lübeck, Dresden, and Leipzig.
The FUBiS Summer University was held for the first time in 1998, and in 2007 a winter term was added. In 2018 the academic quality of FUBiS was recognized for the second time by the Forum on Education Abroad through its Quality Improvement Program (QUIP). It is the only summer and winter university in Germany that successfully completed the QUIP evaluation. In 2018 FUBiS welcomed a total of 531 students from 44 countries to almost 60 seminars at Freie Universität Berlin.
More Information
Friederike Zähringer, Coordinator, Marketing & Communications, Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University, FUBiS, Tel.: +49 30 838 66560, Email: friederike.zaehringer@fu-berlin.de