The Department of German at Georgetown University offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of the German-speaking world. Georgetown offers a uniquely diverse, interdisciplinary context for studying the German language as well as literature and culture. Students are equipped with the skills and knowledge to engage thoughtfully with the German-speaking world, both academically and professionally.
Our department’s mission comes alive in our excellent graduate and undergraduate programs. We are committed to incorporating diversity at all levels of our curriculum. The Department is also proud to foster intellectual life outside the classroom by inviting speakers and hosting an annual Max Kade professor from a German-speaking country, alternating between a scholar and a writer-in-residence.
At the undergraduate level, our internationally recognized curriculum helps students to become competent and culturally literate users of German while pursuing a German major or minor.
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At the graduate level, we offer a challenging yet supportive environment for pursuing an M.A. or Ph.D. in German and, with the BMW Center for German and European Studies, the joint MAGES/Ph.D. degree.
More About Our Graduate Program M.A. & Ph.D. Requirements BMW Center for German and European Studies
Faculty members in the German Department are engaged in a range of research projects and topics many of which address cross-disciplinary issues, such as gender and performance, notions of belonging and Heimat, visual culture and digital humanities, cultural negotiations of economic concepts, globalization, and the role of multiple literacies in Second Language Acquisition.
Meet Our Faculty Learn More About Faculty ResearchFor general matters and undergraduate concerns, please contact Professor Peter C. Pfeiffer, Department Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies.
For M.A. and Ph.D. studies, as well as general matters and undergraduate concerns, please contact our Director of Graduate studies, Professor Mary Helen Dupree.
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Announcements, PhD Students, Undergraduate Students
SFS Proficiency Exams – December 4-6, 2024
REGISTRATION: November 20-24, 2024 Once we know the exact number of examinees, you will be contacted on Monday, November 25, to provide your availability. The exam schedule will be sent by…
September 13, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Spring 2024
Dr. Astrid Weigert receives 2024 Distinguished Service Award
May 18, 2024
Researching Digital Storytelling – Methods and ApplicationsOct. 18
Researching Digital Storytelling – Methods and ApplicationsOct. 19
How to Handle the New Occupiers? Margret Boveri’s Amerikafibel and U.S. ‘Reeducation’ PoliticsOct. 22
Kaffeestunde – German Department Conversation HourOct. 29
Trier Summer Program – Information SessionOct. 30