New Winter 2026 Education Abroad Class: "A Green Giant? Environmentalism and Technology in Germany, Today and Yesterday."

Explore the history and future of green technologies in Munich! This three credit study-abroad course will focus on Germany’s role as an economic and technological powerhouse and its claim to be a global environmental leader from the 1930s to the 2020s. Topics include the roles of scientists and engineers during and after the Nazi dictatorship, the complicity of big business in the Holocaust, and the rise of environmentalism and of green technology in recent decades. Munich is an ideal site to study these issues. We will work with curators at the Deutsches Museum, the world’s largest museum for the history of science and technology, tour the Dachau concentration camp memorial site, and visit the BMW factory.
 
The deadline to sign up is 9/30. You can earn credit for one of these three-credit courses: HIST252, ECON258G, ENES269Z, GERS262, CPSP279G, and PHPE308Q. This course also counts as an elective for the Sustainability minor, as an elective for the STEP minor, and as a practicum for the STS Scholars program under the ENES designation. Scholarships are available.
 
To learn more, visit the Fall 2025 Study Abroad Fair in the Stamp Grand Ballroom on  Wednesday, 9/10, from 2pm-5pm, or an information session on Wednesday, 9/17, at 5 p.m. in 2120 F. S. Key Hall. You can reach the program leader, Dr. Thomas Zeller, at tzeller@umd.edu. Details are also at go.umd.edu/germany-HIST