Department Chair: Lisa Vollendorf
Program Director: Jeffrey High
RGRLL Language Coordinator: Markus Muller
Single Subject Coordinator for L.O.T.E.: Jean-Jacques Jura
Department Office: Academic Services, Room 309
Telephone: (562) 985-4318
Faculty: Nele Hempel-Lamer, Jeffrey High
Administrative Analyst/Specialist: Cindy McCarty
Students desiring information should contact the department office for referral to one of the faculty advisors. Credential advisors, Undergraduate Advisor, Graduate Advisor.
Customs Officer • Immigration Officer • Importer/Exporter • Foreign Service Officer • International Marketing Representative • Travel Professional • Social Worker • Linguist • Foreign Correspondent • Community Organization Worker • Lawyer • Librarian • International Student Advisor • Educator • Peace Corps Worker • Interpreter • Teacher Professor • Translator • CIA/FBI Agent (Some of these, and other careers, require additional education or experience. For more information, see www.careers.csulb.edu.)
The German program develops the student's language skills and knowledge of literature, history, and current affairs in German-speaking countries, as well as cultural literacy, all of which play an important role for study abroad and employment in a variety of careers. In cooperation with the College of Engineering, the German Program promotes a double major of German and Engineering. In addition, the Program offers a BA in German Studies with a concentration/certificate in the Administration of Travel and Tourism. German Studies maintains exchange programs with the University of Bielefeld, Essen, and Oldenburg as well as Freiburg (Switzerland) and Salzburg (Austria), and all of the universities in Bader-Württemberg. German students are also eligible to participate in the German-American Business Student Workshop with the Polytechic University Hamburg, Germany.
