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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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  • Afrikaans

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

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    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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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

  • 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...

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