Overview

We offer a bachelor degree in German at the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. A step-by-step systematic progression of language courses aids students to achieve fluency in German and allows them tp later concentrate on chosen areas of linguistic specialization. 

To gain intercultural competency, students acquire a solid knowledge of contemporary life in the German-speaking countries and learn to compare their institutions, customs, and mentalities with contemporary U.S. culture. Students also gain intercultural competency through critical knowledge of the historical and cultural movements and personalities that have had the most impact on contemporary culture in the German-speaking countries, especially Germany.

Student Learning Outcomes

• develop and deliver well-organized oral presentations that exhibit critical thinking skills in academic, intercultural, and professional areas

• create written products that exhibit critical thinking skills in academic, intercultural, and professional areas using major tenses and moods and linking paragraphs into composition length products

• when listening, demonstrate understanding of main facts and supportive details of conventional narrative and descriptive discourse in most genres including those in various time frames in many familiar and unfamiliar academic, social, and professional contexts

• when reading, demonstrate understanding of conventional narrative and descriptive texts in major tenses and moods on a variety of familiar and unfamiliar topics of general and professional interest

• when talking with others, converse fully on topics including matters of public and community interest in an organized way with appropriate detail using paragraph-length discourse in various time frames

• explain the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied and their own