Highlights for students and instructors alike are the excursions outside of Berlin, which are integrated into the academic program. Students explore the broader context of Berlin and Germany as they pursue trends and ruptures in European culture, politics, and arts. The tentative day-trip itinerary includes several of the following sites: Dessau with its Bauhaus legacy, Dresden, the Baroque “Florence on the Elbe,” the architecture of Absolutism in Potsdam, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, and a weekend trip to Weimar and nearby Buchenwald concentration camp.