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Staff:
A Macalester College faculty member specializing in German Studies
serves as resident director for the Vienna portion of the program,
teaching, arranging excursions and occasionally
stroking feathers. Other instructors are local native speaker faculty.
Accommodations:
Students live in University of Vienna dormitory rooms, usually
in a double room.
Courses:
• One intensive language course at the Goethe Institute in Berlin
• Two 4-credit courses designed especially for program participants;
each run 12 weeks (March through May), take advantage of the setting,
are taught entirely in German. They are:
Erlebtes
Theater (Theater
Alive) (taught by the director)
A mixture of literature, theater, and cultural politics in a
place where culture still matters. Students read German-speaking
plays currently playing in various Viennese theaters and subsequently
visit the productions. Theater is a forum for political and cultural
views here in a way that is inconceivable in the US (including
the Viennese public's response to the theater scene, which is
sometimes virulent but never indifferent). We'll see a wide variety
of productions; some will provoke, a few shock and others "just"
entertain, but all are intricately connected with perceptions
of Austrian identity.
Multikulturelles Österreich (Multi-Cultural Austria) America is not the only melting pot! "Austria's Multi-cultural Tradition" ties together its broad sweep of Austrian/European cultural history by a thematic focus on the interaction of a variety of groups that has contributed greatly to the specific "flavor" of Austria. The course alternates between lecture/discussion and field trips throughout Vienna.
• Two
4-credit courses of the student's choice at the University of
Vienna (March through June).
With guidance from the program director, each student selects
two courses individually. This component has two advantages: it
offers students the chance to pursue any subject that fits in
with their curricular plans, and exposes them to a vastly different
educational system.
Internship:
During June or after courses end at the University of Vienna, students may complete an
unpaid, non-credit-bearing internship (individually arranged),
providing them work experience
in Austria. Past internships have included work at the University's
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft with an international team
of experts dealing with linguistic treatments of unemployment
in the European Union, at the Literaturhaus, a library specializing
in twentieth-century Austrian literature, and at the Austrian
Fulbright Commission.
Excursions:
Trips to Prague and Budapest, which are prepared by and
integrated into the program courses; a series of day trips to sites
like the Abbey at Melk on the Danube as well as to a reconstructed
medieval fortress and a vineyard.
Prerequisite:
Successful completion of four semesters of college-level German
language, or equivalent. See insert for details.
Credits:
Students receive a total of 20 semester hours credit.
Costs:
Costs have ranged in the past few years from $12,000 to $15,000,
depending on the exchange rate. Program fees cover essentially
everything except your trans-Atlantic flight. Room and board,
instruction, transportation within Europe (including a monthly
pass for Vienna's world-class transportation system), books,
theater tickets, museum pass, and excursions are covered.
Application
Procedure:
Applications may be obtained from the Department of German Studies
& Russian or the International Center.
Macalester College
1600 Grand Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105
Completed applications should be submitted to the Macalester
International Center. The deadline for submission of applications
is October 1 of the semester preceding the one when you wish
to participate.