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The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies makes every effort to support qualified graduate students. The total package offered to excellent students is financially competitive with other major institutions and intellectually supportive because of the valuable teaching experience it affords.

Fellowship support in a variety of forms is available for particularly strong candidates. Qualified incoming students in the humanities will be considered for the University's Regents Special Fellowship and Humanities Special Fellowship, each of which awards $20,000 plus payment of fees, health insurance and tuition for up to two years. In addition, fellowship recipients receive teaching assistantships in the department for three years. Truly exceptional students will be considered for the Chancellor's Fellowship, which awards $20,000 plus payment of fees, health insurance and tuition for up to three years, and awardees receive teaching assistantships for two to three years. Highly qualified incoming students will also be considered for the one-year Small Department Regents Fellowship/Dean's Fellowship, which awards $18,000 plus fees and health insurance.

The Stuart Atkins Fellowship, an endowment named after the distinguished late professor of German and Comparative Literature, will award qualifying students with one to three quarters of teaching or research fellowships.

Research in the humanities is encouraged and supported in many other ways as well. Advanced graduate students may apply to the Graduate Student Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant Program, which awards grants of up to $2,000. Doctoral students doing interdisciplinary research may apply for Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Predoctoral Fellowships, which award up to $4,500. Tuition fellowships may also be granted to out-of-state students with distinguished records. Graduate students may also apply for graduate student travel funds and intercampus exchange funds that enable them to use library and research facilities at other UC campuses, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and the Huntington Library.

Most financial support for graduate students in German comes from teaching assistantships. Students are responsible (with supervision) for teaching a variety of German language courses at various levels. Teaching assistantships currently provide a stipend of $15,610.50 for nine months, plus health insurance and partial fee remission for the academic year.

Funding for the final years of the academic career are also available for qualifying students. The Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship offers a stipend of $5,000 plus payment of fees and health insurance, intended to enable full attention to dissertation writing. Meritorious students may also apply to the President's Dissertation Year Fellowship, which provides a $15,000 stipend, plus a $500 research allowance, and payment of fees and health insurance. Fellows are also required to present their research at UCSB.