After a five-week orientation program that includes advanced language instruction, students may take regular courses at the university in nearly any field in which they are sufficiently prepared. The program curriculum also includes courses in Deutsch als Fremdsprache at the university and special tutorials for program participants. Prerequisites are junior or senior standing, a cumulative grade point average of approximately 3.0, and fifth semester proficiency in German prior to departure. You must be a student at any Indiana University campus who is making normal academic progress, enrolled in at least one course in Germanic Studies during the Spring semester before departure, and it is recommended that you complete G362 or G363 before the program begins. Students receive full IU credit for their work in Freiburg.
Housing is mostly in university dormitories.
In order to keep the program accessible to as many interested Indiana undergraduates as possible, IU and the ESB decided not to set a minimum proficiency level in German for entrance. Instead, this flexible program will accommodate virtually any level of proficiency from rudimentary to near-native. Germanic Studies encourages interested students to develop their German language skills as fully as possible during their first four semesters, which are spent on the Bloomington campus, and to consider the completion of the optional minor in German. Graduate Exchange Fellowships with German Universities Graduate students wishing to study abroad may apply for a number of fellowships, all of which are available annually on a competitive basis to graduate students in any department. The IU Bloomington campus also selects and submits nominees for DAAD fellowships to Germany, and organizes the local student application process for Fulbright-Hayes scholarships.