Photo credit: Patricia Wiley

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  1. Austin Mendoza Investigates the Results of the 2017 Federal Election in Germany and the Rise of the Far-Right Populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party.

    Austin Mendoza Investigates the Results of the 2017 Federal Election in Germany and the Rise of the Far-Right Populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party.

      Austin Mendoza is a fourth year psychobiology major with a minor in German. He initially chose to study German in order to learn his grandmother's native...

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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

    Humanities Dialogues

    October 19, 2018 - May 31, 2019
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Student Testimonials

  • Sara Levy-Lambert

    Sara Levy-Lambert

    Being enrolled in German courses at UCLA allowed me to rediscover my love for the language, culture and country that I left behind when I moved to New York from Frankfurt ten years ago. My first upper division German course was challenging to say the least, as it made me realize how much of the language I had lost within a decade of moving out of the country I had called home for so long.... Read more

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Featured Courses

  • German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature

    Instructor: Todd Presner

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

  • German 152: Conversation and Composition on Contemporary German Culture and Society I

    Instructor: David D. Kim

    Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 6. Taught in German. Structured around themes as they emerge...

  • German 212: Contemporary Literature and Culture

    Instructor: David D. Kim

    Lecture, three hours. Analysis of current cultural issues and their relation to literary production and...

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