<p>I’m seeking information for a young family friend who is studying German. His school promotes a year-long program (jr. year) that won’t work for him. He is an athlete and isn’t prepared to give up his sport. He would prefer a semester abroad or, perhaps more ideally, a summer program. We are only beginning our research, so any first-hand experience or other sound information this forum could provide would be appreciated!</p>
<p>Rutgers and Duke have a program they co-sponsor in Berlin. They have a six week summer program. This is information from last year, but you can check back to find out about 2009:</p>
<p>[The</a> Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures](<a href=“This page cannot be found!”>This page cannot be found!)</p>
<p>If you don’t need the college credit and just want good language classes the Goethe Insitutes are quite good. [Goethe-Institut Learn</a> German in Germany â German courses and exams - Learn German at the Goethe-Instituts in Germany](<a href=“ᑕ➊ᑐ Deutsch lernen am Goethe-Institut | Online und Präsenz”>ᑕ➊ᑐ Learn German at the Goethe-Institut | Online and Face-to-face)</p>
<p>Last summer, my son took part in a German program called DAAD-RISE. The program consists of paid, summer undergraduate internships in the sciences and engineering. If these subject areas are of interest, check out their website [DAAD</a> - wandel durch austausch - change by exchange - cambio por intercambio](<a href=“http://www.daad.de/rise/en/]DAAD”>Welcome to RISE - DAAD). It was a great experience for my son.</p>
<p>…bumping this thread as we are ‘shopping’ for similar programs–summer programs only for us. I’m also wondering if anybody knows which program for German study abroad is recommended by Penn. I’m told it’s a great program, but don’t know the name.</p>