A second, informal exchange with the University of Erfurt was initiated three years ago. To date, we have exchanged six students with this partner institution. A dozen students per year travel with a director to Wittenberg, live with German families, study the language and culture, and take part in study and research excursions. Furthermore, students have the opportunity to participate in USC's exchange with the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Small stipends to support study abroad are available to eligible students on a competitive basis.
All programs serve a combined total of twenty-five to thirty students annually.
Studies, Comparative Literature, the Film Studies Program, Linguistics, and Education on both the graduate and the undergraduate level. We serve those programs though teaching, advising, and supervising or serving as readers of M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations. We even give one of our assistantships to a graduate student in Comparative Literature who has a concentration in German. Comparative Literature has participated in the exchange with the University of Bamberg since 1978. In addition, we are engaged in the MIBS Program, training international business students in German.