Program History
So far, it took an enormous amount of time and effort to succeed in that mutual exchange program as we have it today. The program was initiated by the student body of the faculty of Psychology, and with the heavy backing of Prof. Dr. Werner W. Wittmann from the University of Mannheim and Prof. Georg Matt from the University of San Diego.
April 2001
A German delegation consisting of Prof. Werner Wittmann, Dipl-Psych.
Markus Held and the graduate Mannheim psychology students Marco Behrmann and
Jessica Ippolito met the San Diego exchange developing partners at SDSU.
A few weeks later
Dr. Keith Hattrup, Dr. Jeff M. Conte, Keren Brooks (graduate student)
and Benjamin Ingram (graduate student) visit UM in Germany. Again, a large amount
of discussion possibilities, insights in the German university system, taking
part at UM classes, site
seeing in and around Mannheim, presenting San Diego as well as research and
science at SDSU to Mannheim psychology staff and students are offered.
Here you can see an advertising poster for the presentations at UM:
September 2001
The agreement contracts finally came into effect and one year later the first
SDSU graduate student and Dr. Keith Hattrup (SDSU faculty member) came to
Mannheim. Dr. Keith Hattrup work for one year at the UM Department of
Psychology and enriched the local teaching offers.
September 2003
The first UM students started their studies at SDSU.