Our courses are designed not only for students who choose to pursue graduate studies in literature, but also for students interested in careers in such areas as business, government, law, medicine, mediatechnology, and translation.

The Department offers undergraduates an exciting range of opportunities to familiarize themselves with German language and culture, from beginning language classes to in-depth study of complex literary, political and cultural topics.

Our German language courses are taught almost exclusively in German by competent, dedicated Graduate Student Teaching Assistants supervised by Dr. Evelyn Wade.

The first two years of language courses help students gain both communicative and grammatical competence in German. The third year focuses on advanced written and conversational skills as integrated within a literary and cultural context. Advanced courses include "German Language and Society,", "History and Culture of German Speaking Countries," as well as classes on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literature.

The department also offers an exciting selection of lecture classes for an in-depth study of complex literary, political and cultural topics. Titles include "Testimonies of the Holocaust," "Psy-Fi: German Science Fiction," "German Women Writers," "Revolutions: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud," "Mediatechnology," "Vampirism in German Literature and Beyond," and "Mysticism."

All of our classes are taught by internationally renowned and award-winning scholars. Faculty research areas include German literature and philosophy from the 18th century to the present, psychoanalysis, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies, mediatechnology, German cinema, linguistics, East-Central European and Russian Studies, and twentieth-century art.

For a complete list of German course, see the General Catalog:
http://catalog.sa.ucsb.edu/current/depts/c_search.asp?Course=ger