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The concentration in applied German will provide you with skills to boost your career. Learning a new language also helps you to expand your intercultural awareness—a capability that will serve you in your personal life as well as your work.
This concentration can be completed in three or four years, even if you have not studied German before.
+4%
average annual salary boost in the U.S. and Europe for those who speak German
672,000
number of U.S. workers hired by German companies like Adidas, Bayer, Bosch, and Volkswagen
#4
German is the fourth most-spoken language in the world
In Their Words
While exploring potential career paths, Dr. Rick Chamberlin recommended I apply for an archival internship at the Lebanon County Historical Society. Translating, cataloging, and preserving German-language documents gave me helpful hands-on experience and made me feel confident that I wanted to become an archivist.
Julia Wiker
’18,
German and English; Archivist/Librarian, Mennonite Life
I cannot stress how important it is to have cultural competencies and to be able to see the world from another’s perspective. How better to do that than to learn another language or live abroad?
Genevieve Hugenbruch
’15,
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence