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The College of Arts & Sciences
We are a community of students, teachers, and scholars devoted to the cross-disciplinary study of language, literature, and culture within a transnational framework. Working in an environment that fosters cooperation and the pleasure of discovery, our programs include courses in German and English on subjects ranging from medieval to contemporary literature and from film and visual culture to philosophy, music, and postcolonial studies.
Years after visiting Croatia while studying abroad, Penny Smith Eifrig ’90, an alumna of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences ,lives there. She teachies pickleball and ponders the power of saying ‘yes,' as she writes in a Chime In column for the Cornellians website.
18 veterans, including 10 studying STEM topics and eight in a college readiness cohort focused on American democracy participated in an academic boot camp at Cornell. Representing the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines, they ranged in age from 20 to 42, including active-duty personnel, reservists and veterans.
Accepting Applications!
Niamh Gunning is a German studies major.
Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate Nov. 6.
Click here to learn more about our 2023 graduates in German Studies.
Your support enables the program to enhance the experience for undergraduate students. Gifts can help fund lectures and conferences, student research, distinguished speakers, and other program priorities. We will greatly appreciate and immediately put into use any gift, no matter the amount.
Please consider a donation to the German Studies Gift Account.
Or send checks payable to (include a note that indicates that the gift should be directed to the German Studies Program):
Cornell University
Box 37334
Boone, IA 50037-0334
