Study Abroad
German majors are strongly urged to spend time overseas
to improve their facility with German and to gain experience
of life in German-speaking countries. The College offers
programs for beginning and advanced students in Germany
and Austria. The Goethe Institute, for example, offers a
semester-length program of intensive language study at a
center in Germany. In the one semester of one year program
for juniors at The Institute of European Studies in Freiburg,
Berlin, and Vienna, students take intensive language courses
and German-university taught courses in a variety of disciplines,
as well as in German literature and history. Courses
at Freiburg and at the Humboldt University in Berlin are
conducted entirely in German. Courses at Vienna are taught
mostly in English, and students with beginning German
proficiency are usually eligible.
Life After Wooster
Recent German majors have entered careers in teaching,
research, translation work, foreign service, international business,
and international service organizations. Students who
minored in German are employed in journalism, the natural
and social sciences, and in work involving transcultural communication.
Some Wooster graduates who major in German
choose to spend a year in Germany on internships with
German companies and organizations.
Some of our students have explored the opportunities to teach English
to German Gymnasium students. Kristin Dill, for example, who
graduated in 2004 with a double major in German and History, enjoyed her
year of study abroad in Berlin so much that she applied for and won a
Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Vienna in the year following her graduation.
Kristin is one of many German majors who have been awarded Fulbright teaching
assistantships in Germanspeaking countries.
As Fulbright Teaching Assistants, Jessica Riviere (’05) spent 2005-2006
near Berlin, Germany (she is currently a graduate student in German at
Vanderbilt University), and Leah Suter (’06) spent 2006-2007 in
Vienna, Austria. After her year teaching English in France, Ashley Lackovich
(’06) began graduate school this fall in German at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Upon graduating, Heidi Erdman (’02) had a year-long internship
with the Siemens company in Munich. She is now Marketing Communications
Manager of Altova, Inc., an Austrian-American software company just outside
of Boston. Cecily Raynor (’04) worked as an intern for the regional
Chamber of Commerce in Bremen and has more recently completed an M.A.
at the London School of Economics. She is planning on pursuing graduate
work in Germanic linguistics in the future. |
