Cinema & Digital Media (and German)
UC Davis's Department of Cinema and Digital Media offers both a major and, in Film Studies, a minor with a wide range of courses that overlap and are cross-listed with the Department of German, including "GER/FMS 045: Vampire and Other Horrors in Film and Media,” "GER142/FMS 152: New German Cinema,” "GER/FMS 176A: Weimar Cinema” as well as a new course on film and media under fascism. The department also offers an annual, cross-listed summer course on film festivals that is based in central Europe. Such overlap and cross-listing makes sense given Germany’s many contributions to world cinema and the visual arts in general, and these courses attract students from across the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Comparative Literature (and German)
Undergraduate courses in Comparative Literature are normally comparative in scope, including literature from at least two languages, and taught in English. In addition to taking courses in Comparative Literature, undergraduates typically complete three years of study in the foreign language of their choice. A number of students in Comparative Literature select German as their primary foreign language, and German is one of the literary traditions featured in Comparative Literature courses. Hence many students elect to double major in German and Comparative Literature or to major in one and minor in the other.
History (and Russian)
International Relations (and Russian)
Jewish Studies (and German or Russian)
The undergraduate Program in Jewish Studies at UC Davis offers a minor with a wide range of courses in different disciplines, including several in German such as "GER 116: Readings in Jewish Writing & Thought in German Culture"; "GER 117: After the Catastrophe: Jews & Jewish Life in Post-1945 Germany"; "GER 141: The Holocaust & its Literary Representation"; and "GER 127: Major Writers in German" (when focused on a major German-Jewish writer like Franz Kafka or Heinrich Heine, for example). The minor in Jewish Studies is of interest to humanities and social sciences students, including those in German, Russian, History, Religious Studies, and Sociology.
Political Science (and Russian)