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Students who choose the German Studies concentration will have tremendous flexibility in building their own cluster of courses to align with a particular facet of German, based on their academic interests or intended career path. In the case of double majors, the German Studies concentration allows students to meaningfully align their two programs of study so that one complements the other, with the concentration courses potentially double-counting between both majors. Students with German as a secondary major may also be able to double-count their Studies concentration courses with courses taken for the learning domains.

After declaring the German major with the Studies concentration, students should meet with the German Program Director to discuss ideas and options for crafting a tailor-made German Studies concentration that best fits their college and post-graduate goals.

Electives (16 quarter hours)

One additional GER 300-level elective - choose from GER 330, GER 331, GER 332, or GER 321
and
3 courses from MOL, GER, or affiliated departments, from the list below.  No more than two of the four courses shall be taken in the same department unless German Program Director permission is secured.

Course Title Quarter Hours
Select 4 courses from the following:16
CULTURES OF EUROPE
LANGUAGE, POWER AND IDENTITY
ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD MOVEMENTS AND PRACTICES
ANTHROPOLOGY AND MUSEUMS
HERITAGE DISPLAYS AND MUSEUMS
TOPICS IN LITERATURE
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
NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART
ART FROM 1900-1945
THE EVOLVING MUSEUM: HISTORIES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
THE VIKINGS: MEDIEVAL AMBASSADORS OF TERROR, TRADE AND MULTICULTURALISM
THE MAKING AND REMAKING OF MODERN GERMANY
ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1914 - 1941
AXIS AND ALLIES: THE SECOND WORLD WAR
MUSEUMS, MATERIAL CULTURE AND MEMORY: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HISTORY
FASCISM AND COUNTER REVOLUTION
TOPICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
THE HOLOCAUST
READING MARX'S CAPITAL
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LAW
LANGUAGE AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR
KANT & 19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
BASIC CONCEPTS OF PHENOMENOLOGY
GERMAN IDEALISM
HEGEL
MARX
SELECTED FIGURES AND TEXTS
TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
EUROPEAN POLITICS
MODEL UN
CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT
MARXISM
THE EUROPEAN UNION
JUDAISM IN HISTORY: FROM 1492 TO PRESENT
JEWISH RELIGIOUS WORLDS
MODERN JUDAISM