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Each student will prepare and present a teaching portfolio, a three-credit individual project, in the academic year following the completion of the twenty-seven credits of course work. This teaching portfolio, which will reflect the student's course work, will be a compendium of documents, lesson plans, and teaching materials pertinent to the work situation (teaching level, class focus, particular school system, etc.) of each candidate.

The Graduate Director, in consultation with the student, will form an advisory committee to mentor the student and foster the completion of the teaching portfolio. Each committee will consist of at least three members or associate members of the department's graduate faculty, or of at least two from within the department and one non-program member, according to the standards of the Graduate School. The student will make a formal presentation of the work submitted for this degree requirement only after the advisory committee has approved the teaching portfolio.

The M.A.T. is intended to provide not only advanced language-specific training, but also broad intellectual resources to those involved in the teaching of German culture. Accordingly, some coursework will expressly not include segments on pedagogical applications. Students are welcome to enroll in up to three German Studies courses outside the department's normal offerings.

Eligible courses, which must be pre-approved by the Graduate Director, include, for example, 19th and 20th Century German History, History of German Art, Politics of Modern Germany, etc. Courses with a "substantial German cultural content," as determined by the Graduate Director, and based on a review of the respective course syllabus, will be considered under this rubric.

The M.A.T. in German is considered to be a terminal degree, in that it does not automatically lead to a consideration for the Ph.D. Any student who wishes to seek admission to the Ph.D. program in culture after having completed the M.A.T., or one who wishes to switch programs before completing the M.A.T., must apply to the appropriate program through the normal application process

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The Department considers all qualified current and incoming graduate students for various forms of financial support, including the prestigious Charlotte M. Craig Graduate Fellowship in German ($20,000/year + tuition coverage); the Transliteratures Fellowship ($23,000/year + tuition coverage); the Max Kade Scholarship in German Studies, the Theodor Fontane Fellowship; and the Juliana Ratych Memorial Fellowship. Students may also be considered for a number of other University fellowships that carry a range of stipends. Fellowship packages, of up to five years, typically include one or more years of a Teaching Assistantship. This includes tuition coverage, health benefits identical to that of faculty, and a stipend.

Students may also have the opportunity to serve as a PTL (part-time lecturer), renewable every semester, as an instructor in the department's undergraduate summer programs at Rutgers and at the Rutgers-Duke Summer Program in Berlin, Germany, or as a director of the German Housing in Frelinghuysen Hall throughout the academic year.

In addition, the Department actively supports student applications for outside fellowships such as those from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and the Fulbright Commission, and offers financial aid to graduate students presenting papers at national conferences.

Outside Fellowships * The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
* DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dients German Academic Exchange Service)
* Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Erna Neuse Prize for Best Graduate Essay in German StudiesFounded in honor of Erna Kritsch Neuse, Professor II in the Department of German at Rutgers, this prize recognizes excellence in graduate studies in the German program at Rutgers. Professor Neuse was for many years Graduate Director in the Department. She retired in 1996. All essays written within the context of any graduate seminar in the German program at Rutgers are eligible for nomination. Essays will be judged for originality, soundness of research, and quality of writing. Each professor may nominate the best one or two essays per seminar. The Prize carries an award of $100, as well as a certificate.

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