2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Dec 13, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

German Studies Minor


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The minor in German Studies centers on German culture and language from a historical and contemporary perspective. This program requires completion of twenty-four (24) units in German altogether.

Program Learning Outcomes


  • Communicate in German at the novice-high to intermediate-low level based on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012, or at the A.2 to B.1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
  • Comprehend day-to-day oral discourse produced by native speakers of German
  • Explain major historical, intellectual, and artistic movements which have influenced German-speaking cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries
  • Analyze the main ideas of various cultural phenomena in German speaking countries, such as literature, art, music, film and popular media
  • Appreciate the linguistic, ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diversity within German countries and communities

Minor Requirements (24 units)


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