GERMANY

The University of Trier

A full-year or spring semester program located in the Moselle River Valley on the border to Luxembourg, our Trier program runs on the German academic year, which begins in mid-October and ends in early July, with a break from mid-February to April. To participate in the program, students must have taken at least one intermediate level course in German (GERMAN 103). In some individual cases, we will arrange for students with little knowledge of German to join an intensive German as a Foreign Language Program.

All students, including advanced German language students, will take placement exams in order to determine their level of German as well as which of the courses in German as a Foreign Language they will have to take while in Trier. As a rule, this required course is taken for one or two units. In addition, advanced students select two or three seminar courses in the general curriculum.

In order to help you appreciate the experience more fully, you are required to take part in select orientation programs. Full-year students participate in the International Ferienkurs, a month-long orientation program that takes place in Trier in August, while spring-semester students attend a one-month language training program at a Goethe Institute during the month of March, followed by a two-week orientation in Trier at the beginning of the semester.

University accommodations are guaranteed for full-year students in the Martinskloster, a dormitory located downtown (a twenty-minute bus ride from the University), which was a cloister in the 16th century, or in university housing on the main campus.