Based on the 30 year experience of URI’s nationally recognized German International Engineering program, the Immersion School in Berlin combines the study of German language, literature and culture with Technical German and Intercultural Training, preparing STEM students like yourself for the global marketplace.

In addition to a 4-credit Advanced Conversational German course, you will take a 4-credit Advanced Technical German course. Here, you will learn to follow and participate in conversations about familiar and unfamiliar topics from different fields. You will hear a series of lectures by scientists and engineers, similar to those offered at German universities, and will visit research facilities and companies.

All topics will be broad enough, so that they will be interesting for students different STEM majors. This includes among other topics “The Car of the Future” and “The Art of Making Chocolate”, both of which include a field trip to a nearby factory. Other company visits may include Heurolabs (Artificial Intelligence), SAP, Google, Siemens, Vattenfall (Energy), Daimler, Volkswagen, MTU Aero Engines, Bosch, BMW, and others. In the class periods between lectures and site visits, we will discuss the previous ones, learn how to most efficiently prepare for the next one, and you will give your own STEM-related presentations in German.

At the end of the program, you will have the opportunity to visit TOA, Europe’s leading technology festival on your own time (entrance fee: 99 EUR), where previous speakers included co-founders of companies such as SoundCloud, Wunderlist, YouTube, and Flickr, and a NASA astronaut.