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German - B.A. Program Requirements

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences;KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity and writing-intensive requirements.

I. DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE  (1 credit)
Type Course Title Credits
  US 10097 Destination Kent State: First Year Experience 1
II. PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS*
Type Course Title Credits
  GER 11201 Elementary German I (4)
  
    11202 Elementary German II (4)
  
    21201 Intermediate German I (3)
  
    21202 Intermediate German II (3)
  
III. MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (30 credits)**  Courses count in major GPA 
Type Course Title Credits
  GER 31201 Intensive German Grammar 3
    31211 German Composition and Conversation 3
    31215 German Phonetics and Diction 3
    31303 Introduction to German Literature 3
    31421 German Civilization 3
    41211 Advanced German Composition and Conversation 3
WIC   41216 Contemporary German Culture*** 3
DG
MCLS 21417 Multiculturalism in Today's Germany 3
  Choose from the following: Upper-division German electives
 6
  GER 31240 Conversation for Business and Special Purposes: German (3)  
    41095 Special Topics (3)  
    41096 Individual Investigation (3)  
    41240 Business and Special Texts: German (3)  
    41330 Twentieth-Century German Authors (3)  
    41332 German Literature by Women (3)  
    41334 The German Novella (3)  
    41335 German Drama (3)  
    41338 German Poetry (3)  
    41340 History of German Literature to 1750 (3)
  
    41341 History of German Literature 1750 to the Present (3)  
    41365 Classical German Literature (3)  
    41731 Survey of German Cinema (3)  
IV. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (90 credits)  
Type Course Title Credits
  Kent Core Additional (must be from two categories) 6
  Kent Core Basic Sciences (must include one laboratory) 6-7
  Kent Core Composition 6-8
  Kent Core Humanities and Fine Arts (minimum one course from each)
 9
  Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning 3-5
  Kent Core Social Sciences (must be from two disciplines) 6
  College General Requirements (must be from Kent Core Basic Sciences)****
 3
  College General Requirements (must be Kent Core Social Sciences)*****
 3
  College General Requirements (taken from any Kent Core Categories or Foreign Language)
 14
  General Electives (minimum 12 upper-division credit hours)
Credits required depends on meeting minimum 121 credit hours and minimum 42 upper-division credit hours
 34
MINIMUM TOTAL 
 121

*Student majoring in German are expected to have some proficiency in German through high school study. Students with previous German study should take the German Placement Test and enroll in the correct course(s) based on their score. Students who have completed three or four years of high school German should see a German major advisor for placement. Student lacking in sufficient major-level proficiency to take the first major courses (GER 31201 and 31211) can reach it by taking courses in the prerequisite sequence (GER 11201, 11202, 21201 and 21202) based on their placement score and high school training. Students with sufficient German to place into higher semesters are not allowed to take Elementary German I (GER 11201).

** All courses taken from the list of major program requirements are used in the calculation of the major GPA.

***A minimum C (2.0) grade must be earned to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.

****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Basic Science courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Biological Sciences (BSCI), Chemistry (CHEM), Geography (GEOG), Geology (GEOL) or Physics (PHY). Students may take the courses listed in the "introductory" sequences with the restrictions noted above in the Kent Core Basic Science section. The course may not be from the student's major.

*****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Social Sciences courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Applied Conflict Management (CACM), Geography (GEOG), Criminology and Justice Studies (JUS), Political Science (POL), Psychology (PSYC) or Sociology (SOC). The course may not be from the student's major.