Bachelor in Geisteswissenschaften

The academic program at Gutenberg is different from most colleges. Students do not sit in large lecture classes but actively participate in small discussion-based classes. Rather than reading textbooks that describe ideas, students read the great thinkers’ works firsthand. Rather than being one of the thousands of students studying at an impersonal institution, Gutenberg students are part of a small, family-like institution. Finally, rather than narrowing their education with early specialization, students take the same courses. There are no majors and no electives, although there are occasionally optional courses. Students enter as cohorts and spend four years with their classmates, learning from the faculty's texts, but mostly from each other.