About Our Department
The Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures is administrative home to the following language and culture programs: Arabic, Chinese, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, and Swahili. The Department is also closely connected to various interdepartmental programs: Africa in the New World (ANW), Asian Studies, Communication and Media Studies (CMS), International Relations (IR), International Letters and Visual Studies (ILVS), Judaic Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.

The Department offers eight majors and two graduate degrees. The undergraduate majors are Chinese, German Language and Literature, German Studies, Japanese, Judaic Studies, ILVS, Russian Language & Literature, and Russian and East European Studies. The graduate degrees are M.A. in German and M.A. in German with Teaching Licensure. Students can minor in Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Judaic Studies, and Russian. (For majors in Asian Studies, IR, and Middle Eastern Studies, as well as minors in ANW, Asian Studies and CMS, please consult their websites).

We offer not only excellent language and literature courses but also cutting-edge literary and visual theory courses as well as a number of international film courses in English. The department is located on the third floor of Olin Center.

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