Innovative cross-disciplinary research and teaching

The Department of German is committed to promoting thinking across cultures. Our students achieve a heightened sensitivity to language and its uses for the representation of difference; to questions of translation and cultural transfer; to self-reflexive theory and methodology; and the critical potential of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Undergraduate Program

The department provides classes in German and English on language, literature, film & media, philosophy, and history.

Graduate Program

For students wishing to study German literature and culture through a multidisciplinary and comparative lens.

Courses

All students at UC Berkeley are welcome to take classes in the department of German. Explore all course offerings here.
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Past Event Spotlight

Mosse Lecture: Werner Herzog

The Department was honored to host Werner Herzog’s Mosse Lecture at BAMPFA in November 2023. The lecture is now available to watch on demand. View all past Mosse Lectures here. 

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Auf den folgenden Blättern werde ich den Nachweis erbringen, daß es eine psychologische Technik gibt, welche gestattet, Träume zu deuten, und daß bei Anwendung dieses Verfahrens jeder Traum sich als ein sinnvolles psychisches Gebilde herausstellt, welches an angebbarer Stelle in das seelische Treiben des Wachens einzureihen ist.
Sigmund Freud, Die Traumdeutung (1900)