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The German department offers courses in the language, literature, and cultures of the German-speaking countries to help students reach high levels of linguistic and cultural proficiency and excel in the field of German studies.
The language and literature curriculum is designed to guide students in a professional, research-based manner from their current levels in the language through well defined stages of proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension so that they will reach college-level literacy in German.
Students who complete the elementary and intermediate course sequence (language requirement) can expect to reach a real ability to function in standard situations in a German-speaking environment and to have a solid base for the further study of German.
Students who complete advanced language, literature, and culture courses will gain an understanding and appreciation of German literature and civilization, past and present, will comprehend spoken and written German to a level that they can understand major works of German prose, drama, and poetry and will be well on their way towards the linguistic and cultural capacity for intellectual discourse in written and spoken German.
In teaching and scholarship, faculty serve as mediators between the American and German-language cultures. They have a broad firsthand knowledge of German cultural texts, traditions, issues and trends so that they can support students with diverse interests relating to the German language and cultures and thus help Hunter students in all their endeavors pertaining to things German.
The German Department also offers courses in German literature in English translation for students who have no knowledge of the German language. These courses cannot be applied to the foreign language requirement, nor to the regular German major.
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