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Courses

Syllabi are for course approval and reference only. Students will receive up-to-date syllabi when their courses begin.

Required Courses

CAS DR 300 Intensive German Language and Culture
Students will be placed in intermediate (Level 1) or advanced German (Level II) depending on their language proficiency and the size of the class. The class meets for four hours, four days a week, to enable rapid development of communication skills (speaking, writing, reading, and listening). It also trains students in strategies for functioning in German culture in social, practical, and academic contexts. On the fifth day of each week, students take a field trip designed to engage them directly with the life and institutions of German society.

TUD Courses

The course titles below provide a general idea of the types of courses that may be offered at the Technische Universität Dresden. Because course offerings tend to change some of the courses listed may not be available during the specfic academic year or semester that a student plans to study abroad. Likewise, many additional courses may be offered that are not listed. All courses at the TUD are taught in German, by TUD faculty.

Economics and Business Management
Developing and Transforming Countries within the World Economy
Environmental Economics
International Financial Markets

German Language and Literature
I. Linguistics
Basis of Verbal Communication
History of Linguistics
History of the German language from the 16th to the 18th Century

II. German Literature
Classical and Romantic Literature in Germany
Expressionistic Poetry and Prose in German Literature
Novels of the Goethe Era

III. German as a Foreign Language
Advanced German for Foreign Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Advanced German for Foreign Students in the Technical and Natural Sciences
German for Business

History
German History Between 1789-1871
Germany's Occupation Policy of the First World War
History of the Education of Women and Girls
The Nazi Accession to Power, 1933-1934

Music
Music Education
Music History
Music Theory

The Dresden staff may be able to assist students with setting up private lessons and/or with participation in ensembles.

Political Science
Liberal Political Philosophy of the 20th Century
Political Elites in International Comparison
The United Nations as an International System

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Faculty

The Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) does not publish a listing of faculty biographies. All courses are taught in German by fully-qualified professors appointed to teach at the university level.

Silke Fimmel: MA, Professor of German as a Foreign Language. She is certified to teach both Russian and English, which she has done in Germany at both the high school and continuing-education levels, as well as at Acadia University in Canada and Wabash College in the USA. She teaches German as a Foreign Language at the TUD and is the Resident Director and Language Preceptor for the Boston University program.

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