Center for German and European Studies

Graduate School of German and European Studies, Chung-Ang University

Chung-Ang University’s DAAD-Center for German and European Studies runs a graduate school program (a Master course and Ph D.) in the Department of German and European Studies under the support of DAAD. It is the nation's only academic program that is supported by DAAD in fostering experts in this area.

Our department operates in cooperation with other eleven departments of Chung-Ang University. The list of joint cooperative departments includes: Department of European Culture (Departments of German Literature, French Literature), Department of English Literature, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Department of Social Welfare, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Department of Economics, Department of Mass Communication, Law School.

Academic Goal

Fostering the World's Best German European Experts

The first and foremost academic goal of Chung-Ang Graduate School of German and European Studies is to foster field experts with comprehensive and all-around knowledge relating to these two regions. This is also a common goal held among other prestigious universities' departments of German and European Studies around the world which are also being supported by the DAAD. Experts with in-depth perspective and outlook are needed in our current society at the intersection of the Department of German and European Studies with various other fields such as politics, economics, sociology, and culture. This kind of interdisciplinary interaction is becoming prevalent in leading universities and research institutes in these fields, along with an increasing interest in German and European society around the world. To meet these interdisciplinary needs of the current generation of scholars and students, Chung-Ang University's Department of German and European Studies is attempting to foster the world's best experts in the field.

Fostering Experts In Praxis

Chung-Ang Graduate School of German and European Studies requires one year of mandatory field training in Europe. Graduate school students must take at least six credits from universities in Germany that have exchange programs with our university. Students' participation in these exchange programs is fully supported by scholarships from DAAD. By allowing graduate students to experience German culture first-hand, we will foster field experts who also have well-developed theoretical skills.

Carrying Out Interdisciplinary Integration

Chung-Ang Graduate School of German and European Studies is based on the academic collaboration of the Colleges of Humanities and Social Science. Such collaboration allows literary imagination and insight into the findings of Social Sciences, and can stimulate Social Science's analytic and critical skills in looking at the Humanities. By adapting these analytic and critical skills to the Humanities, we aim to generate significant synergetic effects in both fields. By integrating the Humanities and Social Sciences, we also hope to foster experts with a more comprehensive view of the world than has typically been seen in the academic or professional worlds, and to bring awareness in these fields to a whole new level.