German Studies - Cornell University

German Studies from Cornell University is a Campus Master Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. OVERVIEW The extraordinary changes in central Europe over the past two decades have again brought the study of the German-speaking countries of Europe to the center of academic interest in the United States. Cornell University's Field of Germanic Studies has been leading the development, in research as well as teaching, of the new and lively field of German studies. In this transdisciplinary program, the faculty has a strong interest in cultural and intellectual history, as well as literary theory, gender studies , film, and music. Members of the faculty are also affiliated with the Medieval Studies Program, Program of Jewish Studies , Department of Music, Department of Theatre, Film & Dance, Program of Cinema Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, the Field of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies and the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program. The New German Critique, an interdisciplinary journal, is also based in the Department of German Studies . In past years faculty members have team-taught courses with colleagues from the Departments of Psychology, Music, History of Art, and Comparative Literature. The course work offered in the field reflects this transdisciplinary approach: students take a wide variety of courses from within the core program (ranging from seminars on topics such as sixteenth-century popular literature, and German feminist response to the Shoah, to seminars on Wolfram von Eschenbach, Schiller, the brothers Mann, and Adorno's Aesthetics). Students are also encouraged to take seminars offered in German-oriented areas from throughout the university (from the history of German Education through German political philosophy). COURSES OF STUDY The graduate program in German Studies allows students to tailor their program to their own academic interests. Graduate students, whatever their concentration, work closely with a Special Committee of their choice that advises them and administers the examinations required for an advanced degree . The Graduate School permits any combination of major and minor subjects approved by the candidate's Special Committee. Students with a major in German Literature will acquire a general knowledge of the field and become familiar with the tools and methods necessary for research and analysis. A concentration in German Intellectual History also draws on the faculty of neighboring departments, such as Philosophy, History, Government, Psychology, Music, etc. Students may also concentrate in German Cinema Studies . View more details on Cornell University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.