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Photo credit: Patricia Wiley

Photo credit: Patricia Wiley

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  1. Professor Todd Presner will deliver the 24th Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture at the United States Holocaust Museum on October 18, 2018

    Professor Todd Presner will deliver the 24th Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture at the United States Holocaust Museum on October 18, 2018

    Professor Dr. Todd Presner will deliver the 24th Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture entitled From Wire Recorder to Database–Testimony Technologies and the Digitization of the Holocaustat...

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Languages Offered

  • Afrikaans

    Afrikaans is a West Germanic language and is spoken in South Africa by approximately 6... Read More

  • Dutch

    Modern Dutch is a West Germanic language (and, as such, a sister language of Modern... Read More

  • German

    German is a West Germanic language within the Indo-European family of languages and, as such,... Read More

  • Yiddish

    Yiddish has been taught at UCLA for well over 30 years. UCLA is one of... Read More

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Upcoming Events

  1. Humanities Dialogues Spring 2020

    Humanities Dialogues Spring 2020

    April 10 @ 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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Graduate Courses for 2019-2020

The graduate courses for the European Languages and Transcultural Studies in the 2019-2020 school year have been confirmed. Click Learn More to see what courses will be offered.

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Student Testimonials

  • Noorvik Minacian

    Noorvik Minacian

    My personal experience with the German language and the German culture began as an immigrant in 1990, when I was two years old. My family and I arrived as refugees from Iran to Germany in 1990. In Germany, we lived for seventeen years until we moved to the United States in 2007. Thus, I finished my high school education in Germany and graduated from the “Gymnasium” with the “Abitur” degree. After being accepted as an... Read more

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Featured Courses

  • German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature

    Instructor: Renata Fuchs

    Lecture/screenings, five hours; discussion, one hour. History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination...

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