Program Highlights

Program Dates

Summer 2026

Faculty Director

Ian F McNeely, Professor of History and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Program Highlights

Led by UNC’s Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, students in this 4-week Burch Field Research Seminar will use Berlin as a case study to research the quality of life in European cities. Students will examine the modernization and reunification of Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With German-speaking Europe boasting some of the highest measures of human development anywhere, this immersive program will explore on a deeper level as to why and how these findings apply across Europe more generally. The program is based in Berlin for four weeks with an excursion to Vienna, regularly ranked as the world’s most livable city. Students who participate in this program will receive 3 UNC (Honors) credits and the HI-RESEARCH requirement of the IDEAs in Action curriculum.