January 14, 2005

Insight Seeing: Cultural Tourism Across Disciplinary Divides

By JULIA M. KLEIN

In Cologne, the bus was waiting as the last stragglers sprinted across the street. Our German bus driver, unaware that his fetish for punctuality was verging on caricature, was once again tapping his watch and preparing to admonish the latecomers. The rest of us braced ourselves -- for yet another day devoted to grappling with German culture both high and low.

Participants in a three-week Fulbright German Studies Seminar, we traversed the country last June in search of its "visual