The Essentials
All Programs
Year/Semester High School
Green Summer School
Global Prep STEM – Bielefeld
Global Prep STEM – Braunschweig
Global Prep – Elbe Green Summer Session
Global Prep – Global Peers
Digging Deeper
Language Resources
- Basic German Questions for your Host Family
- Rosetta Stone: German (see below)
- Duolingo (free language learning app)
- Memrise: German
- BBC German Language Guide
- LiveMocha
- Deutschwelle
- The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Learning German FAST
Cultural Resources
- Goethe Institute
- German History in Documents and Images
- Hofstede Center: Germany
- Culture Grams
- –Username: afsusa – Password: cgrams
News and Media
- Der Spiegel (English and German)
- Deutschewelle (German)
- Die Zeit (German)
- The Local (English)
- ZDF German TV
- My Pass Comedy
- ARD Mediathek TV
Movies and Documentaries
- Pappa Ante Portas (1991)
- The Miracle of Bern (2003)
- The Tunnel (2001)
- Make me a German (BBC 2013)
- The Rural Exodus in Germany (2014)
- Hitler’s Children (2011)
- Half a Century in Germany: Alamanya Alamanya (2011)
- The First World War (2005)
- Apocalypse: the Second World War (2009) (6-part series)
Books
- The Book Thief
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- Oh, wie schön ist Panama
- All Souls day
- Stones from the River
- A Concise History of Germany
- Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany
- The Meaning of Hitler
- Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
- Germany: Unraveling an Enigma
- The German way: Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs in the German-Speaking World
- When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do
- The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany
- Spoonfuls of Germany: German Regional Cuisine
LGBTQ Resources (Diversity)
Heritage and Ethnicity Resources (Diversity)