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Language Program Description

Questions? Contact Marion Gehlker, PhD, Language Program Director

Classes

Beginning German:
G110 (First semester)
G120 (Second semester)

Intermediate German:
G130 (Third semester)
G140 (Fourth semester)

Intensive German (G125):
(First through fourth year German in one year)

Third-& Fourth Year Classes:
G150: Advanced German
G160: German Culture & History in Text and Film (offered in the spring)
G168: Current Events (offered in the fall)

Other Classes:
G198: German for Reading Knowledge
(geared towards graduate students preparing for the translation/reading exam)
Does not fulfill the language requirement!

For information on meeting times and location go here.

Summer Courses
Summer Sessions Courses:
General information and application

Elementary German (S110/120)
10 weeks in New Haven
June to mid-August
not offered every year, inquire with summer sessions
(credit for one year)

Intermediate German (S130/140)
4 weeks in New Haven (June),
4 weeks in Berlin with a host family (July)
(credit for one year)

Metropolis Berlin (Advanced German) (in progress)
5 weeks in Berlin

German for Reading Knowledge (S198)
(mainly for graduate students preparing for the proficiency exam for reading)
5 weeks in New Haven

Connecticut / Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program
(offered through the Dept of Germanic L+L):
Heidelberg, Tübingen, Freiburg et. al.
For more information inquire with Prof. Kirk Wetters

Internships:
Offered through Yale University Undergraduate Career Services Summer Internship Program in Germany

  1. CDS International
  2. Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program
  3. Other CDS internship programs
  4. Design your own internship

Self-Study Program
Fokus Deutsch
(Annenberg Media)
A video instructional series in German for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 48 fifteen-minute video programs, audio CDs, and coordinated books.
A co-production of WGBH Boston, Inter Nationes, and the Goethe-Institut. 1999.

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German4Everyone (free)
German for Beginners
7 interactive German lessons, with exercises, vocabulary games (crossword-puzzles, etc..) and German audio-examples.

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