World Canonical Texts
This is a real department - and just like the "Celtic" one, this is also European in scope and named as "Languages and Literatures" rather than broader in designation.
Courses breakdown:
| No. of Courses | Comments | |
| German | 38 | Includes language and literature courses |
| Germanic Philology | 1 | |
| Germanic Studies | 1 | |
| Scandinavian Langauges | 8 | Includes Swedish (focus, also has cultural and literature components), Danish, Finnish and Norwegian |
|
Scandinavian Literature and Culture |
10 | Includes a few courses about Old Norse / Vikings |
|
Total |
58 |
1. To get a Ph.D. in this Department, the language requirement is simple: German and French. Plus if focus is on medieval period, then Latin is required.
2. For "German," 9 courses are languages, the the rest (29) are Literature. Names included in the course titles are: Goethe (3), Nietzsche (3), Kafka (2), Jelinek, Marx, Freud, Thomas Mann, Sebald.
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