The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) offers the only Master of Arts degree in German from a state university in Missouri.<br><br>We attract a diverse range of M.A. candidates from across the United States and around the world, most incoming cohorts include both domestic and international students.<br><br>The M.A. program prepares students interested in German language, literature, and culture for a variety of future careers:<br><br>teaching, both in the United States and abroad <br>Ph.D. study in German Studies, Jewish Studies, Applied Linguistics/Second-Language Acquisition, and other interdisciplinary fields<br>international business, journalism, and law <br>hospitality and tourism<br>government and foreign service<br>Over the course of the two-year program, students usually take three graduate seminars each semester. Some of these courses cover professional issues, these include our seminar on language-teaching pedagogy and our introduction to graduate studies in foreign-language cultural studies. Most of the coursework, however, focuses on specific intellectual concerns located over the chronological spectrum of German Studies, from the medieval to the postmodern periods. Through courses examining literature, film, and various theoretical and philosophical texts, students gain familiarization with current questions driving intellectual inquiry in the field while also acquiring a firm base in the German cultural canon.