CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT: Associate Professor Goebel
DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Assistant Professor Siegel
COORDINATOR OF THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM: Dr. Dortmann

The department’s undergraduate program offers a broad range of courses in the language, cultures, and literatures of German-speaking countries. Students may choose among three majors: German language and literature; German studies; and German and linguistics. Minor programs are available in German language and in German literature in translation.

Along with its German language programs, the department offers interdisciplinary courses taught in English that address issues of German culture, history, philosophy, science, art, and literature for students who do not have German language skills.

The department sponsors the activities of the German Club as well as a series of annual awards in recognition of outstanding achievement by undergraduate students in the study of German language and literature. Deutsches Haus, the German cultural center at NYU, provides a varied program of films, concerts, lectures, and exhibitions.

The Department of German places high priority on fostering personal contact between faculty and students, maintains relatively small class sizes (15 or fewer students on average), and offers comfortable spaces for socializing, studying, and holding informal meetings. Advanced courses and some basic language courses are taught by full-time faculty members, all of whom are also involved in student advising.

Faculty

Professors Emeriti:
Becker, Guilloton, Hüppauf, Herzfeld-Sander, Sander

Professors:
Baer, Ronell

Associate Professors:
Fleming, Goebel, Ulfers

Assistant Professor:
Siegel

Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow:
North, Kolarov

Language Lecturer:
Dortmann

Adjunct Associate Professor:
Cohen