Honors Abroad
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Cultural Routes: Berlin - Spring Break 2025
March 14-22, 2025
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- Application Closes October 14, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.
- Application is open to current first-year Honors students.
- Selected students will be responsible for a $500 student fee, passport, incidentals, and lunch during the experience.
- THIS EXPERIENCE IS NOT FOR COURSE CREDIT.
Cultural Routes: Berlin will explore the critical cultural, political, and historical pivots that gave rise to our current understanding of Berlin and geopolitical conflicts around Nazism and communism. More specifically, students will energetically explore Berlin to understand how this unique urban center—one of Europe’s largest cities—works through historical layers (as well as walls) and continues to be shaped by religious, political, philanthropic, and cultural movements. Students will spend time traveling throughout the city and look for opportunities to interact with locals. They will visit historic sites including the Berlin Wall, Potsdam, Sachsenhausen, and memorials in and around Berlin. Employing a traveling classroom that privileges experiential learning, this spring-break study will challenge students to extend their understanding of themselves and their capabilities to a more global perspective, one where they regard themselves as part of a larger global narrative, see common threads linking the past to the present, and begin to imagine ways in which they can help change the world.
Students participating in this spring break experience should expect to walk many miles a day, have early morning starts, and participate in night adventures designed around learning and team building.