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For
more than a century, the Department of German Studies
has successfully trained its graduate students to compete in the professional
world. The graduate program enjoys a national and international reputation,
and its graduates hold teaching positions at some of the most distinguished
American universities and colleges. In recent years--years in which the
department has had an enviable, nearly one hundred percent success rate
in placing its PhDs-- those institutions have included Georgia Tech, Washington
and Jefferson, Calvin College, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, University
of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wabash College and Texas Christian University. The
department's excellence rests above all on its well-roundedness. The faculty
members are active, internationally recognized scholars and innovative,
dedicated teachers. Teaching is, in fact, one of the strengths of the department;
within the UC system, German Studies has the highest percentage of winners
of the University of Cincinnati Excellence in Teaching Award.
Graduate students accepted into the program are eligible for teaching assistantships in addition to tuition remission. Graduate students also have access to a number of fellowships, among them the prestigious Max Kade Graduate Fellowship and the distinguished Taft Fellowships, as well as stipends to study abroad. Most graduate students earn additional money by teaching summer school in the department. German Studies also offers editorial assistantships to students interested in working with the journals published by the department, which include, the Lessing Yearbook, the Journal for German-American Studies, and Focus on German Studies. The department is medium in size, priding itself on its spirit of congeniality and cooperativeness. Through visiting lectureships, through the annual presence of a Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, and through lectures by its faculty at conferences and other institutions, the department maintains lively contacts with scholars and other institutions both here and abroad. The course offerings of the department range through the entire spectrum of German literature to philology and film, and from literary theory to Business German. The department is strongly student oriented, and is comparable to any graduate program in the country in providing both theoretical and practical experience in the teaching of German language, literature, and culture. The library has a superior collection in the field, and its German-Americana collection is among the finest in the world. Though the departmental graduate program is focused on training American students, it has a pronounced international flavor. In recent years, we have had students from Austria, Germany, Hungary, India, Mongolia, Slovakia and Sweden. The involvement of graduate students in the department goes beyond representation on department and university committees. They participate in conferences and read papers at professional meetings. Annually they organize a German Day which draws hundreds of Cincinnati area high school students to the department for academic competition and an array of cultural activities. The department is the site of the Max Kade German Cultural Center, housing seminars, lectures, and conference facilities, all of which contribute to a lively and effective graduate program. Click here to meet our graduate students for the 2005-2006 year. |
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