College of Charleston - German & Russian Studies

College of Charleston - German & Russian Studies Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston The Department offers a Major in German, a Minor in German, and a Minor in German Studies.

The Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston is the youngest department in the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs and provides students with opportunities to study the language, literature, cinema and culture of German-speaking Europe and Russia. America has many long-established social and cultural ties with the nations of the German-speaking world: Aust

ria, Germany, and Switzerland. Today, a knowledge of German has become important for anyone engaged in international commerce, research and technology. The Russian Studies program offers a multidisciplinary course of study, which combines the Russian language with courses related to Russian civilization, culture, history, politics and economic. A primarymajor goal is to provide an understanding of the relationship between the United States and Russia in the aftermath of the Cold War. The Department offers a Minor in Russian Studies. Both German and Russian programs offer a full range of extra-curricular activities
in which students and faculty participate.

Join us next Thursday, November 6th at 5pm for this public lecture by Dr. Ervin Malakaj of the University of British Col...
10/28/2025

Join us next Thursday, November 6th at 5pm for this public lecture by Dr. Ervin Malakaj of the University of British Columbia!

A great student turnout last night for the German-language film "Die Weisse Rose," the White Rose! The film screening w...
10/09/2025

A great student turnout last night for the German-language film "Die Weisse Rose," the White Rose! The film screening was a companion to the opening of our temporary display on the White Rose now located in the Addlestone Library rotunda. Last night's screening was wonderfully introduced by MA student, Chad Spear and co-hosted by the CofC Department of German and Russian.

Be sure to join us November 5 for the talk by Lauren Ashley Bradford (Clark University) on the White Rose group and its legacies.

Tonight's opening of the exhibit on the student-led anti-Nazi resistance group The White Rose and film screening of the ...
10/09/2025

Tonight's opening of the exhibit on the student-led anti-Nazi resistance group The White Rose and film screening of the 1982 film "Die Weiße Rose" drew a crowd of 70 students tonight. Many thanks to the Dr. Chad Gibbs and CofC's Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies for sponsoring the exhibit and to MA History Student Chad Spear for curating it and introducing it before the screening tonight!

09/29/2025
It's CofC day until 10pm tonight, March 20th! Please consider donating to support study abroad -- and check out this gre...
03/20/2025

It's CofC day until 10pm tonight, March 20th! Please consider donating to support study abroad -- and check out this greeting from Professor Stephen Della Lana aka Herr DL to all of our alumni!

Dec. 2nd, 7pm: Come check out the performance "Democrapocalypse Now! -- a work-in-progress by GRMN 468," the final proje...
11/26/2024

Dec. 2nd, 7pm: Come check out the performance "Democrapocalypse Now! -- a work-in-progress by GRMN 468," the final project of Dr. Koerner's upper level German course on Democracy and its Discontents in and through German theater. The 11 students of German 468 will be performing pieces that they have co-authored, curated and directed in response to the course readings. The performance is in German but there will be running English subtitles on a powerpoint.

The performance is Monday, December 2nd, starting at 7pm in SSMB 129 (the Science auditorium) on 202 Calhoun Street. Length: circa 50 minutes. Admission is free; democrapocalyptic catharsis is priceless!

Achtung, German program alumni in the Charleston area, German speakers in the community, and advanced CofC German studen...
08/22/2024

Achtung, German program alumni in the Charleston area, German speakers in the community, and advanced CofC German students! Stammtisch, the CofC German conversation group, is launching again and running Wednesdays from 6-7pm at Kudu Coffee this fall from from August 28th to Nov. 20th. Kommt vorbei und quascht mit!

Final intern Dylan, was placed at the Baden Württemberg state office for sustainable mobility housed at the University o...
06/18/2024

Final intern Dylan, was placed at the Baden Württemberg state office for sustainable mobility housed at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe. A double Computer Science and German major, Dylan will work with his team on rating the walksbility and bikeability of microregions around the state.

Trey King, an International Business and German Studies double major is doing his internship at SRAM in the Bavarian cit...
06/17/2024

Trey King, an International Business and German Studies double major is doing his internship at SRAM in the Bavarian city of Schweinfurt. SRAM the industry leader in high performance, precision bicycle components. Trey will rotate through after marketing sales, logistics, research and development and warrantee servicing. Thanks to Trey and his supervisors for giving Herr DL a comprehensive tour and the opportunity to shadow the day to day workings of this exciting company.

Herr DL is making his rounds to the first students participating the Summer Internship Program in Germany. On his first ...
06/14/2024

Herr DL is making his rounds to the first students participating the Summer Internship Program in Germany. On his first stop to Berlin, , he's visited Jalena Austen, a Computer Science and German Studies Major doing coding for the European Institute for Participatory Media, Yesterday was spent with Alex Geis, a Business Major with a concentration in Logistics (along with German studies as a minor) who is working at Tree Logistics, a partner in the Amazon organization that facilitates environmentally sustainable delivery.

Of course no experience in Germany is complete without a little Gemuetlichkeit in an old Berliner pub. Congratulations to both of these students for their flexibility, tenacity, willingness to learn and enthusiasm --on the side of both them and their respective employers!

Congratulations to all 14 of our high achieving German Majors and Minors inducted into the Delta Phi Alpha German Honor ...
04/25/2024

Congratulations to all 14 of our high achieving German Majors and Minors inducted into the Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society this week!

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