Requirements
The German Studies Minor consists of 19 credit hours (six three-credit courses + a one-credit capstone) broken down as follows:
Required Courses (13 credit hours)
- GERM 103 Intermediate German I
- GERM 104 Intermediate German II
- German Studies Capstone (offered as needed)
Electives: Students choose four courses from the following. In order to qualify as an elective, a course must have at least one-third of its content devoted to German cultural history.
- COMM 260 Film History: New German Cinema (offered every two or three years)
- GERM 250 Conversation and Composition I (offered every fall semester)
- GERM 251 Conversation and Composition II (offered every spring semester)
- GERM 370 German Film
- HIST 290 Medieval Culture (offered every other year)
- HIST 300B Barbarians and the Fall of the Roman Empire (offered every other or third year)
- HIST 300C Poland and Germany (offered every other or third year)
- HIST 300C: Topics in European History (post-1700) (offered every other or third year)
- HIST 310A The Early Middle Ages 600-1150
- HIST 310B Medieval Culture, 1100–1500 (offered every other year)
- HIST 315 The Reformation
- HIST 321 Europe to Germany in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1900(offered every other year)
- HIST 327 Contemporary Europe, 1945 to the Present(offered every other or third year)
- HIST 330 The Second World War (offered every other or third year)
- HIST 333 Germany in the Twentieth Century
- HIST 334 Nazi Revolution (offered every other or third year)
- HIST 335 The Second World War (offered every other or third year)
- HIST 336 Contemporary Europe, 1945 to the Present (offered every other or third year)
- HIST 338A History of European Communism
- PHIL 306 19th Century Philosophy (offered every other year)
- PHIL 309 Classical Modern Philosophy (offered annually)
- PHIL 375 Philosophy of Marxism (offered irregularly)
- PLSC 308 Contemporary Political Thought (offered every other semester)
- SOCL 205 Social Theory (offered every semester)
- THEO 281 Christianity through Time (offered annually)
- THEO 319 Reformation Theology (offered irregularly)
Not less than 8 credit hours in the individual student’s transcript must be unique to the German Studies Minor; that is, the courses in question are considered as actually fulfilling requirements of one minor, not of more than one minor or major.