Requirements and Courses

A student can moderate into German Studies with a focus in German literature and culture. Joint majors moderate separately into German Studies and the related discipline (e.g. philosophy, music, history, written arts) or they may integrate German Studies and another field of inquiry into one moderation.

Requirements

Students who wish to pursue a second focus in German Studies must complete at least 16 credits in the German language sequence. They must also take either
two upper-level German literature/culture courses, or one upper level German literature/culture course and two German culture courses taught in English and cross-listed with German Studies.

Moderation
A student moderates into German Studies with a focus in German literatures and cultures. Joint majors may moderate separately into German Studies and the related discipline (philosophy, music, economics, etc.), or they may integrate German Studies and another field of inquiry into one Moderation.

Before Moderation, potential majors are required to participate in the annual German intensive program, which includes
- a semester of intensive language study at Bard in the fall followed by a month’s study in January at Bard College Berlin
- a survey course in German literature
- and at least one semester of German or European history, thought, or culture (including philosophy, music, art history, etc.).
At Moderation, students demonstrate progress in their primary discipline and are actively pursuing inquiry into aspects of German Studies.
Graduation Requirements

Over the course of their degree, students must take 12 courses (48 credits) accredited by the German Studies Program. These 48 credits include the 8 Senior Project Credits. Typically, 8 of the 12 courses are conducted entirely in German.
After successfully moderating into the German Studies Program, students take at least one upper-college literature/culture course per semester in ascending sequence.We strongly recommend and support students spending a Junior Year Abroad at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Graduating in German Studies culminates in writing a Senior Project over the course of the last two semesters.

More about the Senior Project

Sample Four-Year Plan

First Year	Sophomore Year	Junior Year	Senior Year
GER 106: Beginning German Intensive plus Intensive Abroad in Berlin GER 202: Intermediate German II	GER 301 GER 302 GER/LIT 200 HIST 100/200	GER 401 GER 402	GER 400-level Senior Project

Core Courses

100-Level GER 106: Beginning German Intensive plus Intensive Abroad in Berlin	200-Level German 200: Accelerated Transitional German German 202: Intermediate German II
300-Level German 303: Grimms Marchen: Once Upon A Time; The Folktales of the Brothers Grimm German 308: German through Film German 320: Modern German Prose German 325: German Theater Between Moral Institution and Participatory Happening German 331: Poetry and Philosophy	400-Level German 400: German Expressionism German 405: Exit Metaphysics-Enter Sauerkraut: Nineteenth-Century German Literature German 421: The Experience of the Foreign in German Literature German 422: Contemporary German Literature and Film German 426: Kleist's Works German 467: Correspondences: Figures of Writing