Germanic Languages and Literatures

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FROM STUDY TO SKILLS

All academic programs offered at the UM help students develop valuable transferable skills. So why study German?  German is the most widely spoken language in Europe, and the German economy is one of the world’s largest. Many of the great minds of the last 300 years thought and wrote in German, and German is often required or recommended for graduate study in the humanities and social sciences.

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