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Prospective Students
Message from the Chair Welcome to the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, home to U of M’s German Studies, Dutch and Flemish Studies, and Scandinavian Studies Programs! Still deciding which language to study at U of M? Click on Why Study . . .? for brief presentations listing some of the many reasons for studying Dutch, German, and Swedish. Our language courses are wide-ranging, challenging, and fun! Fuller descriptions of each language program are available in the corresponding sections of our website: you can jump to these sections by clicking on the links at the top right of each web page. Minors are available in German or Scandinavian Studies, and German is an option in the Global Engineering Program. The undergraduate major in German takes advantage of our outstanding faculty, who hold degrees in a wide range of fields, and have won numerous awards for research and teaching. One of the largest German programs in the country both in numbers of majors and minors and the size of our faculty, we are able to offer courses not only in German language and literature, but also in Business German, Scientific German, German history, film, politics, music, and much more. For a full list of our upper-level undergraduate courses, click on German Studies Sequences. The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts recognized the excellence of our undergraduate courses by making Germanic Languages the first humanities department, and the first smaller department, to win the much-coveted Award for the Greatest Contribution to Undergraduate Education. Our graduate program is unique in its commitment to radical interdisciplinarity, which we understand as work across and beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries that is guided by faculty with deep methodological training and experience not only in language and literature, but in other fields as well. Please see the fuller description of the philosophy underlying our graduate program at What German Studies Means at Michigan. Whatever your interest, I hope that you will enjoy reading about our many dynamic and innovative programs. Geoff Eley
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