Graduate Program in German Studies

Teaching

Graduate student teaching is integral to the program. Graduate students receive extensive teacher training and mentoring, and have the opportunity to teach undergraduate courses in German language, literature, and culture at all levels. Beginning in their second year, students normally teach one course per semester. In addition to teaching workshops and a dedicated foreign language pedagogy seminar, students receive on-going, constructive feedback from professors who visit their courses each term. Outstanding teachers may have the opportunity to develop and teach an advanced undergraduate literature or culture course based on their dissertation research.