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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…

September 13, 2024

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Fall 2024 – Help Desk Hours

Do you need assistance with an assignment or revision from your German class? Or would you simply like to practice your German? Come to the German Help Desk for Levels I-IV and…

August 22, 2024

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Grace Philippon (SFS’ 26) wins Max Kade Prize for Best Paper at the 13th Undergraduate Research Conference for German Studies!

Grace Philippon (SFS’26) has won the Max Kade Prize for Best Paper at the 13th Undergraduate Research Conference for German Studies! On April 6, 2024, Grace presented her…

May 1, 2024

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What Class Changed Your Life? 3 Hoyas Answer.

When she entered Georgetown, Madeleine Ott (C’26) wasn’t sure what she wanted to major in. She tried sociology, linguistics, French, biology. But nothing seemed to stick —…

April 19, 2024

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Fulbright Teaching Awards in Germany and Austria

Three (!) of our graduating students (COL ’22) – Helen Poe, Ben Gaver, and Steven Kingkiner – and one of our recently graduated German minors – …

September 30, 2022

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German Major Steven Kingkiner Receives Fulbright Award

This year’s German graduate Steven “Stefan” Kingkiner (COL ’22) received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship   for 2022-23. He will begin teaching in North Rhine…

May 3, 2022

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Cindy Strizak (MSB’22) wins Award for College Minors from the German Society of Maryland!

The German Department is delighted to congratulate Cindy Strizak (MSB’22, German minor) for receiving the prestigious Award for College Minors by the German Society of…

April 20, 2022

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Congratulations to Desmond Allen Ferrell, SFS’18, recipient of a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship

When I arrived at Georgetown in the fall of 2014, I only intended to take enough German courses to satisfy the SFS language proficiency requirement. However, life had other plans…

December 6, 2021

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German Major Benjamin Lang Receives Fulbright Award

This year’s German graduate Benjamin Lang (COL ’21) received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship for 2021-22. He will begin teaching in North Rhine Westphalia in early…

July 13, 2021

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German Department Student Wins Dürrenmatt Essay Contest

Quentin Fidance, first year student in the School of Foreign Service (Major: International Affairs), has won first place in the Friedrich Dürrenmatt Centennial Essay Contest…

May 6, 2021