Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [German Studies] From Brandeis University

German remains one of Europe's most important cultural languages. German is spoken in four countries with separate cultural, political, and economic traditions: the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is also the mother tongue of significant minorities in neighboring countries, as well as one of Luxembourg's official administrative languages. After English, German has become the leading political and economic language on the European continent and remains the most useful second language in the former communist bloc countries.

The significance of German for the humanities is incontestable. German speakers of many nations?from Beethoven and Einstein to Kafka, Canetti, and Wittgenstein?occupy a distinguished place on any list of the cosmopolitan artists, writers and thinkers who have defined Western modernity. Almost every academic discipline has a strong tradition of German scholarship and in many cases one that largely defines the field. In fact, the modern university itself, with its combination of teaching and research, is a German invention, stemming from the practical imagination of Wilhelm von Humboldt.