Students choosing the Language and Literature concentration will likely fall into one of two categories:
- Students who choose to complete a majority, if not all, of their coursework in the German language and through German program offerings (i.e. courses with the “GER” designation), which are largely culture-, literature-, history-, and film-oriented.
- Students who have an academic or professional interest in the structures and mechanics of language, along with questions of second language acquisition and cognition. The “Language” part of this concentration allows students to take elective courses in Linguistics and/or Second Language Acquisition from departments and programs around the university.
After declaring the German major with the Language and Literature concentration, students should meet with the German Program Director to discuss which of these two pathways best fits their interests and academic/postgraduate goals.
Electives (16 quarter hours)
One additional GER 300-level elective - choose from GER 330, 331, 332, or 321
and
3 courses from MOL, GER, or affiliated departments, from the list below.
| Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Select 4 courses of the following: | 16 | |
| LANGUAGE AND CULTURE | ||
| LANGUAGE, POWER AND IDENTITY | ||
| TEACHING ADOLESCENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND DIALECT SPEAKERS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM | ||
| LANGUAGE, LITERACY AND CULTURE | ||
| EQUITY ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE LEARNERS | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND CULTURE | ||
| SOCIOCULTURAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION | ||
| ANALYZING RESEARCH ON IDENTITY, CULTURE & LANGUAGE EDUCATION | ||
| BILITERACY PRACTICES IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND ESL | ||
| SECOND, WORLD AND HERITAGE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | ||
| FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | ||
| LANGUAGE, LITERACIES AND CULTURES | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN COMMUNICATION | ||
| INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| TOPICS IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| TOPICS IN RELATIONAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| DECEPTIVE COMMUNICATION | ||
CMNS 328 | ||
| CULTURES IN CONVERSATION | ||
| COMMUNICATION NETWORKS IN A DIGITAL AGE | ||
| GENDER AND COMMUNICATION | ||
| AUTOMATA THEORY AND FORMAL GRAMMARS | ||
| LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD (BIRTH TO 8) | ||
| BILINGUAL THEORY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT | ||
| SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND EARLY LITERACY DEVELOPMENT | ||
| HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | ||
| WORKING THROUGH THE PAST: MEMORY AND MEMORIAL IN GERMANY AND THE U.S. | ||
| REVOLUTION ON THE STAGE: BERLIN, EPIC THEATER, AND THE 20TH CENTURY | ||
| COFFEEHOUSES AND CULTURE IN TURN OF THE CENTURY VIENNA | ||
| MAKING GRIMMS' FAIRY TALES | ||
| ORIGINS OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE TO 1600 | ||
| PLAY, PERSONALITY, AND POLITICS IN SCHILLER'S LETTERS ON ART | ||
| WORD-SCRIPT-STAGE-WORLD: DAS THEATER | ||
| COMPOSING REALITY: WRITING IN GERMAN | ||
| THE NOVELLE | ||
| FROM SOUND TO STRUCTURE: GERMAN POETRY | ||
| GOETHE AND HIS ERA | ||
| BREAKING NEWS IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD | ||
| GERMAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY | ||
| TURN OF THE CENTURY VIENNA | ||
| BERLIN AND THE GOLDEN TWENTIES | ||
| LITERATURE AFTER 1945 (EAST AND WEST) | ||
| WOMEN WRITERS OF GERMAN EXPRESSION | ||
| MULTICULTURAL GERMANY: LITERATURE, FILM, FOOD, CULTURE | ||
| ADVANCED COMMERCIAL GERMAN | ||
| GERMAN TRANSLATION | ||
| MEISTERWERKE OF GERMAN CINEMA | ||
| GERMAN PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS | ||
| FOREIGN LANGUAGES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS IN GERMAN | ||
| STUDY ABROAD | ||
| TEACHING MODERN LANGUAGES | ||
| METHODS OF TEACHING MODERN LANGUAGES IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | ||
| THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS/CURRENT RESEARCH SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | ||
| PSYCHOLINGUISTICS | ||
| TEACHING CULTURE IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO NEUROSCIENCE | ||
| SYMBOLIC LOGIC I | ||
| SYMBOLIC LOGIC II | ||
| PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE | ||
| THEORIES OF LEARNING AND COGNITION | ||
| COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE | ||
| THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF TEACHING ESL AND WLE | ||
| STANDARD AND CONTENT-BASED METHODS OF TEACHING WORLD LANGUAGES K-12 | ||
| SECOND, WORLD AND HERITAGE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | ||
| LANGUAGE, LITERACIES AND CULTURES | ||
| LANGUAGE, SELF AND SOCIETY | ||
| LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS | ||
| SEMIOTICS | ||