Matthew Lange | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Hessen-Wisconsin Student Exchange Opportunities

Hessen-Wisconsin: 10 Years of Academic Partnership

Hessen has been highlighted as an academic destination by The Chronicle of Higher Education and the full report is available here .

The Hessen-Wisconsin Student Exchange was initiated and inaugurated in 1998 to expand the long-established cooperation between the two sister-states by offering a Student Exchange for all Hessen and Wisconsin Institutions of Higher Education. The ultimate objective was to serve as an “umbrella agreement” for as many bilateral cooperations between Hessen and Wisconsin universities as possible. After ten years this goal has been more than achieved. For the past decade, this unique transatlantic initiative has fostered collaboration between individuals and institutions of various disciplines and fields of research. Almost 300 students from Wisconsin have studied in Hessen and over 150 students from Hessen were given the chance to study in Wisconsin in return. Beyond the student exchange, new international programs have been developed, and important initiatives have been taken to provide and increase the variety of disciplines/topics of the short-term summer programs in Hessen, the International Summer Universities to meet the US students' demands. This program is supported by the Hessen Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts and the University of Wisconsin System.

The current administrative home of the program in Hessen is the Universität Gießen. The Hessen website provides information about specific offerings for Wisconsin students including year-, semester-, and month-long programs. General cost estimates can be found on the website of the UW-Oshkosh, which hosts the program on the Wisconsin side. The UW-Oshkosh also provide an outstanding guide to study in Hessen.

NOTE: The applications for all study abroad programs are processed by the UWW Center for Global Education (Hyland Hall, Room 1227), which maintains the following deadlines:

October 15:

for spring semester programs
A. the German "summer" semester runs April –July
B. IUSP runs mid-February through mid-June (specific dates)

March 15:

for summer ISU programs
June, July, or August

for the fall semester programs
A. the German "winter" semester runs October–February
B. IUSP runs September through mid-December (specific dates)

year-long programs
September-July

Please visit the out-bound advisor, Kevin Spears, well ahead of these deadlines to give yourself adequate time to compile the application.

Financial aid and scholarships for study abroad are available on campus. In addition, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD) provides more than adequate funding for well-qualified undergraduate students. Application deadlines are typically in the fall for the following year.

For more information about specific programs see the following links.

The Study in Hessen website provides an overview of all study opportunities in Hessen, not just Wisconsin-specific offerings.

A listing of ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COURSEWORK AND PROGRAMS can be found here (see link) and here .

The International Undergraduate Study Program (IUSP) runs in the fall or spring semester in Marburg to correspond to the US semester dates. Coursework is primarily in English.

The International Summer University (ISU) allows the student to earn 6 credits (3 in German plus 3 in numerous disciplines) during a month-long program. As a Wisconsin student, you are required to pay for only 6 UWW credits, your flight, a few administrative fees, and miscellaneous daily expenses: cost estimate. The accomodations and excursions are subsidized by the Hessen government. Below are the specific offerings.

Frankfurt
http://www.isu-frankfurt.de/
"European Studies / Finance"
July 15-August 11, 2012

European Studies:

Intercultural Communication

European History

European Economic and Social Policy

European Law

European Central Banking

Finance:

Money & Macroeconomics

Behavioral Finance

Corporate Finance

Negotiations in Debt Financing

Gießen
http://www.uni-giessen.de/isu/
"Intellectual Property and Biotechnology - Linking Law, Business, and Science"
July 14-August 11, 2012

Biotech Ethics

Intellectual Property Rights - Law

Intellectual Property Rights - Business

Biotech Applications

Kassel
http://www.uni-kassel.de/isu/
"New Perspectives for a Globalized World: Environmental and Cultural Dimensions"
June 16-July 14, 2012

Environment & Technology Module:

Environmental Engineering And Integrated Environmen-tal Studies (in English)

Adaptation Strategies To Climate Change (in English)

Civil Engineering: Introduction to Earthquake Engineer-ing (in English)

Culture Module:

German History and Politics of the 20th Century (in English) // Deutsche Geschichte und Politik im 20. Jahr-hundert (in German)

German Fairytales (in English and German)

Intercultural Communication (in English)

Documenta 2012 (in English)

Marburg
http://www.uni-marburg.de/isu
"Peace and Conflict / Near and Middle East: Political, Cultural and Economic Aspects of the Arab Spring – A European Perspective."
July 21-August 18, 2012

Political Science

Sociology

History

Cultural and Regional Studies

Fulda
http://www.isu-fulda.de/
"Advancing Sustainability - Economic and Social Dimensions from a European Perspective"
July 17-August 13, 2012

Culture & Society Module:

Intercultural Communication

Social Work

Health and Nutrition Module:

Music Therapy

Stress Management

Public Health

Management

The Universität Kassel also offers the International Winter University (IWU)for engineering students during the winterim (December 29-January 19, 2012).

Environmental Engineering: Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change
Cultural Studies: Reflections on German History, Literature and Art