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  1. Yizhou Chen is Admitted to the Graduate Program in Mathematics at the University of Bonn, Germany

    Yizhou Chen is Admitted to the Graduate Program in Mathematics at the University of Bonn, Germany

    Yizhou Chen graduated from UCLA in Spring 2018 with a double major in German and Mathematics. He initially chose to learn German because he has always been fascinated...

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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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Student Testimonials

  • Heather Smitelli

    Heather Smitelli

    The first German class I ever took was during my junior year of high school. I wanted to try something new that was different from the more commonly taught foreign languages in school. I had taken both French and Spanish for many years, but found myself completely discouraged at how unsuccessful I was at learning either of them. I even started to think that it was impossible for me to learn a foreign language at... 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...

  • 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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