German studies course offerings?include a full range of language courses, as well as two to three English-language seminars per year on German topics. Upper-level courses focus on a specific period in German cultural history or a specific aspect of literature, such as recent courses about the fall of Berlin Wall, sexology in Berlin and Vienna, and masculinity in the 1920s.
At all levels students typically complete a variety of creative projects, such as designing a digital mapping exhibit about refugees using ArcGIS and Neatline, creating a lifelike reenactment of life in East Germany, or adapting the Grimms' Fairy Tales in a variety of media. Whether you enter college with substantial previous study in German or none at all, there are a host of courses, clubs, and events to push boundaries and develop language skills and cultural competencies.