Special Programs

Fall Semester in Cologne, Germany

Every fall semester students are invited to participate in the semester study abroad program cosponsored by the Pennsylvania Colleges in Cologne Consortium (PCIC). This program is open to all students, sophomore through first-semester senior, regardless of major, who have completed a minimum of one year of college German or the equivalent. Students register for a normal course load (4-5 courses). Two courses are German language courses:

203, 204 Intermediate German
214 Cologne: 2000 Years of History and Culture
303, 304 Advanced German
325 German Literature since 1945

The other courses (taught in English) are from the areas of political science, history, art history, and literature and may satisfy distribution and/or major/minor requirements in those areas.  These include:

Art Hist. 215 German Art from the Middle Ages to Today
History 218 History of Germany from 1815 to the Present
Pol. Sci. 273 Political Systems of Germany

Credit for the two German courses is for the 200- or 300-level and constitutes the completion of the language requirement. Students live with German families as regular members of the family. Regular Gettysburg College tuition, room, and board cover all but personal expenses.

Junior Year Abroad

Qualified students are encouraged to study abroad one or both semesters of their junior year. Students can choose from programs administered by American institutions at universities in Munich, Freiburg, Marburg, Heidelberg, Bonn, and elsewhere.