German Department

German Department was established in 2007 and began to offer a four-year undergraduate degree program in the same year. In 2012, the Department was authorized to initiate an MA degree program. Now, German Department offers undergraduate and graduate programs to German majors for the attainment of proficiency in German language and familiarization with German society, culture, history, and literature. The objectives of the Department are to help students become fully proficient in the German language to cultivate students’ expertise in German linguistics and literature, and acquire the basic tools for conducting cross-cultural research. In addition to maintaining the traditional discipline advantage of linguistics and literature, the Department adds the knowledge of German society, culture and Chinese-German relations into teaching and research to pave the way for a fuller integration in the field of humanities research.

The Department has established cooperative and exchange relations with Universit?t zu K?ln. Every year two excellent students are sent on a one-year exchange program to this university. The faculty of German Department consists of one professor, six lecturers, two assistants as well as a foreign teacher from German-speaking countries.

The compulsory courses in the undergraduate program include German Intensive Reading, German Grammar, German Extensive Reading, German Listening, Advanced German, and German-Chinese and Chinese-German Translation. Selective courses include Selected Readings of German Literature, German lexicology, Tourism German, Reading German Press, German Linguistics, German Movies Appreciation and German Fairy Tales. The well-designed curriculum offered by The German Department equips students with cross-disciplinary skills to assist students in applying for schools in German-speaking countries, finding employment opportunities in business world and in the government service, and obtaining teaching positions in schools.