We are open at 2:00 to 2:45 p.m. ET (Session 1) and 4:00 to 4:45 p.m. ET (Session 2) via Zoom. Students can meet with faculty to learn more about the department, its course offerings, study abroad and internship opportunities, major and minor degrees and extracurriculars like German club and our Max Kade on-campus housing community.
Green City is a joint foreign study program between the Department of German Studies and the Thayer School of Engineering that will be piloted in the spring 2022 (pending final approval). This program invites students to combine engineering coursework that focuses on "green" and sustainable engineering with a fast-track German course (GERM 2–3) that satisfies Dartmouth's foreign language requirement.
Our Fall 2020 Course Offerings are now online. Study German language, culture, literature, film and more this fall.
Petra McGillen has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She additionally received the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement, as well as the David Bloom and Leslie Chao Fellowship.
Since 1970, well over a hundred Dartmouth graduates have been awarded Fulbright scholarships or the German equivalent, DAAD fellowships, to spend a year either teaching or pursuing research in the German-speaking countries. In 2020, they are joined by three more Fulbright awardees: Chase Yakaboski, Thayer '23; Mary Tobin '20; and Claire Votava '18.
Two alumni, Claire Scott '11 and Alexander Lambrow '10 won the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition for German Studies in America.
The German Studies Department mourns the death of our beloved alum Christopher McMullen-Laird (Zeke)
German and Music double major John Moreland presents his perspective on studying German at Dartmouth.
Am Sonntag jährt sich der Unfall des Atomreaktors in der Ukraine. Wann können wir wieder sorglos nach draußen gehen? Das fragten wir uns damals. Und es gibt noch andere Parallelen zum Lebensgefühl in Corona-Zeiten.
The Department of German Studies has moved its spring 2020 curriculum from face-to-face instruction to remote learning.
