German Studies Minor

Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department | College of Liberal Arts

Program Declaration

Completion of a Major, Minor, Concentration Declaration Form .

Minor Requirements

Complete at least 18 credits from six courses including two intermediate German language courses and four electives.

GPA: A minimum GPA of 2.0 from all minor courses.
Pass/fail: No courses taken pass/fail may be applied toward the minor.
Residency: No more than two courses applied toward the minor may be from subjects other than German. At least three courses applied toward the minor must be taken at UMass Boston.

Course Requirements

Intermediate German Proficiency (6 Credits)

Students who place out of GERMAN 201 must complete an additional elective course with approval from the German Studies program director.

GERMAN 201 Intermediate German I 4 Credit(s)
GERMAN 202 Intermediate German II 4 Credit(s)

Electives (12 Credits)

Complete four courses from below.

At least three courses must be at the 300-level or higher.

GERMAN 230 Crisis and Continuity: German Culture and Society in the 20th Century 3 Credit(s)
GERMAN 372L German Cinema 3 Credit(s)
GERMAN 379 Independent Study 1 - 3 Credit(s)
GERMAN 280 Special Topics in German Literary and Cultural History 3 Credit(s)
ANTH 232 The Viking World 3 Credit(s)
ART 309 Northern Renaissance Art 3 Credit(s)
MDNLNG 255L Pacting with the Devil: The Faust Tradition 3 Credit(s)
ECON 308 History of Economic Thought 3 Credit(s)
ECON 372 Comparative Economic Systems 3 Credit(s)
HIST 220 History of European Imperialism 3 Credit(s)
HIST 307 Renaissance and Reformation 3 Credit(s)
HIST 313 Nineteenth Century Europe 3 Credit(s)
HIST 315 Europe 1900-1945 3 Credit(s)
HIST 316 Europe since 1945 3 Credit(s)
HIST 326 Hitler, A Man and His Times 3 Credit(s)
HIST 329 Germany Fr 1815-1945 3 Credit(s)
HIST 342 Cinema in Hitler’s Germany: Movies, Propaganda, Politics in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1919-1945 3 Credit(s)
PHIL 397 Marxist Philosophy 3 Credit(s)
PHIL 455 Hegel and German Idealism 3 Credit(s)
PHIL 462 The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant 3 Credit(s)
PHIL 465 Kant’s Moral Philosophy and Its Critics 3 Credit(s)
POLSCI 252 Modern Political Thought (D) 3 Credit(s)
POLSCI 355L The European Union (B) 3 Credit(s)
THRART 318 Modern European Drama 3 Credit(s)