Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
German Program
Image: Castle Neuschwanstein at Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany Credit: Softeis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
German Studies at California State University, Fresno offers courses in German language,
culture, literature, and film, and is designed to serve both our Minor and the needs
of students from our campus and community.
In treating the language and culture of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein,
German Studies prepares you to communicate in German so you can work, travel, and
study in the very center of Europe. Many of our courses are specifically geared to
the needs of students from business, music, English, history, and linguistics.
Professor Amila Becirbegovic is our German Professor and can assist students in creating a plan to complete a German minor.
Minor in German and fulfill your General Education Area C2 requirement
- German 1B, German 2A and 2B meet the General Education C2 Requirement.
Credit by examination (CBE) for German courses
Academics
Die Welt: Links to the World
Languages are international as well as personal. Here are some links to the world of German, some academic, some political, some cultural.
Dictionaries and Lexika
- DWDS, Das Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jahrhunderts. Very useful Lexikon (German/German) with lots of examples and synonyms.
- Leo German & English Dictionary useful and modern translation tool
- Beolingus.com Good German and English dictionary, shorter and more sorted than dict.leo; many links
to other useful dictionaries.
- wortschatz.uni-leipzig a thesaurus with word lists but short on definitions.
- Deutsch/Englisches-Lexikon mit Synonymen
- Adelung, Johann Christoph: Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart (Wien,
1808)
- A great glossary of words currently in the news aber in keinem Lexikon
- List of Dictionaries
Other Links
- Tatsachen über Deutschland
- German News (from Abendschau)
- Yahoo aktuelle Nachrichten (dpa)
- European Business Directory
- AATG
- Goethe Institut
- ActiLingua language and cultural program in Vienna
- German Information Service
- Unicum Online
- Bundesregierung Informiert
- Spiegel Online
- Yahoo in German(y)
- German Studies Trails from U North Carolina Greensboro-- one of the best!
- Projekt Gutenberg
- germanistik.net Internet Resources for Germanists from the University of Wisconson, Madison
- Deutsche Welle OnlineListen to Deutsche Welle radio news over the net
- Deutscher Wetterbericht
- New Mastodon German Bookstore in Los Angeles
- Teleauskunft (Yellow Pages, Telephone book, place directory, eMail directory)
- International Cooperative Education provides university students with the unique opportunity to gain practical work experience
abroad
- dmoz Nachschlagewerke
- wikipedia.de
- Conversions/Maßeinheiten