German

UPEI's Department of Modern Languages provides its students with the opportunity to study various languages and to obtain a good grounding, but also sees languages within their appropriate cultural contexts. In other words, the acquisition of languages is seen as a vehicle to enter the thought, history, literature, and cinema within which each of the languages is associated.German is not presently taught in P.E.I.'s high schools, UPEI presents the only opportunity for learning this language. This means that students wishing to study German start with 101, which demands no prior background in the language. Those who have had some contact with the language either through exchanges, family background, or travel may enter at a higher level.

Field of study: German Language and Literature