Major & Minor Requirements

The German Studies Major

Note: The grade point average of the coursework comprising the major must be no less than 2.00 with no course grade below C- (1.70).

9.5 units, including

GERM 301 Conversation and Composition
GERM 311 Culture & Civilization
GERM 321 Introduction to German literature (18th-20th century)
Three 400-level courses in German
GERM 498-499 Senior Research Project I and II
Three additional courses selected from the list below (no more than two courses can be taken in a specific area; LAC in German required for all three courses) ART 318 Twentieth-Century Art ECON 210 The Economics of the European Union MLC 256 Psychoanalysis, Literature and Culture MLC 340 European Romanticism MLC 350 Introductory Linguistics MLC 351 Contemporary Literary Theory MLC 360 Representing the Holocaust MLC 365 German Film in Context HIST 240 European Thought 1650-1850 HIST 241 European Thought since 1850 HIST 242 Modern Germany HIST 244 The Hapsburg Empire and After HIST 248 European Diplomacy from Bismarck to Hitler HIST 249 Twentieth-Century Europe HIST 399 Holocaust PHIL 272 Modern Western Philosophy PHIL 275 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud PHIL 336 Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy PHIL 339 Topics in Existentialism PHIL 344 Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy PHIL 357 Nietzsche RELG 356 Renaissance and Reformation

The German Major/International Business Option

(Earned in conjunction with a major in the Robins School of Business with an international business concentration.)

9.5 units in addition to completing all requirements of the international business concentration for the business administration major, including

Five units in German at the 300 or 400 level
GERM 498-499 Senior Research Project I and II
One semester full-time study at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (four courses)

The German Major/International Business Option represents a joint project between the Department of Modern Literatures and Cultures in the School of Arts and Sciences and the International Business Program in the Robins School of Business. The curriculum includes a semester abroad at one of the University's partner institutions. There, students will continue their Robins School concentrations in classes with both local and other international students.

In order to prepare for the experience abroad, students in German will need to have completed at least German 202 on the Richmond campus; they must take at least one concurrent course in German while in Vienna.

The German Studies Minor

Note: The grade point average of the coursework comprising the minor must be no less than 2.00 with no course grade below C- (1.70).

Five units, including

GERM 301 Conversation and Composition
GERM 311 Culture & Civilization
GERM 321 Introduction to German literature (18th-20th century)
One 400-level course in German
One course from the following list, with LAC in German MLC 256 Psychoanalysis, Literature and Culture MLC 340 European Romanticism MLC 350 Introductory Linguistics MLC 351 Contemporary Literary Theory MLC 360 Representing the Holocaust MLC 365 German Film in Context