About the Program

Earlham's German Langauge and Literature Program offers students opportunities to acquire real-life communication skills, while also exploring the rich diversity of the German-speaking world. Understanding a culture other than your own is a valid tool to increase intellectual and global awareness. To that end, it is our central mission to provide our students at all levels with sound language instructions and to equip them with a high command of that language.

In Earlham's basic, intermediate and advanced language courses, you can expect

• to learn to communicate with speakers of German in every-day situations
• to acquire reading strategies that enable you to understand the focus and logic of different types of authentic texts, from advertising and newspaper articles to poems and short stories.
• to write various text types comfortably - letters, descriptions, fairy tales, book critiques and video reviews
• to understand the connection between language and culture
• to interact with one another in a challenging and highly supportive learning environment.

In Earlham's German literature, culture and film courses, you can expect

• to achieve a high level of language proficiency to improve skills in presenting arguments and defending positions
• to learn to read, analyze and interpret a great variety of texts in their social, cultural, and historical contexts
• to learn to interpret and respond to literary texts, from medieval to modern to contemporary
• to acquire comparative perpectives of literary texts across time and genre
• to appreciate and understand the complexity of today's German-speaking Europe, the challenges of tomorrow, and Germany's and Austria's role in the European Union
• to think aut how language shapes our view of the world and
• to collaborate with instructors on special topics.

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This page last updated: July 12, 2005