Germanic Studies at UT...
The Department of Germanic Studies is one of the largest and most diverse departments in the country, combining traditional coverage and breadth with new interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches. We offer undergraduate and graduate programs in German Studies and Scandinavian Studies that include language, literature, and culture courses in German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Old Norse, Dutch, and Yiddish. Our students receive a comprehensive introduction to the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Germanic-speaking countries and the increasingly multicultural, transnational, and global contexts that define these cultures today. At a time when many departments are shrinking or specializing, we maintain a firm commitment to the idea of a core curriculum and emphasize the historical dimension of cultural studies and the interrelatedness of linguistic competency and cultural literacy. In our course offerings and in our research, we cover all periods of literary, cultural, and intellectual history as well as a range of interdisciplinary specializations that include linguistics, applied linguistics, foreign language pedagogy, film studies, gender studies, intellectual history, cultural theory, German-Jewish studies, and Swedish studies.