German (BA)

DePaul University

The German BA at DePaul offers students an extensive background in German and Austrian culture, language, and literature, and prepares them to think and work in an increasingly globalized world. German is the most widely spoken first language in the European Union, and German-speaking countries drive international politics, culture, and business today. The German-speaking world is multifaceted-these are the cultures of Mozart, Goethe, Freud, Kafka and Marx-and the study of German also explores the critical questions of memory, history, and race that link the German past to the present day. We encourage our students to participate in the study abroad options associated with the German program: a long-term study abroad program to Vienna in the Fall quarter or for an academic year, and a short-term, human rights-oriented service-learning program to Berlin and Vienna, which focuses on history, memory, and the current refugee situation in Germany and Austria. Both of these programs are affordable and can be financed through scholarships offered by DePaul’s Study Abroad Office and the Department of Modern Languages. Our students of German have received Fulbright Scholarships, DAAD Fellowships, and the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange Grant obtained internships at the Goethe Institut, the German Consulate, the DANK Haus, the German-American Chamber of Commerce, and the German International School Chicago and have worked in other German and Austrian businesses throughout Chicagoland. Post-graduation, our alumni have continued with postgraduate studies in the U.S., Germany, and Austria secured internships at embassies or with U.S. government agencies worked in German-based businesses in Chicago and abroad and applied the skills they learned in our German Program in a multitude of other careers.

• Commercial German
• German Language and Literature
• German Studies

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences