Curricular Goals
Language proficiency
- The development of students’ ability to use the German language effectively in the interpretation, negotiation, and communication of meaning within German-speaking cultures in a range of personal and professional contexts.
Foreign Cultural Literacy
- The development of knowledge and understanding of German history, culture, and society.
- The development of cross- and intercultural awareness through a profound and multi-faceted confrontation with difference.
Critical, Reflective, and Creative Engagement
- The development of aesthetic, interpretive, critical, and creative capacities through engagement with cultural products and processes.
- The development of students’ ability to explore relationships between culture and identity, language and power, reader and text.