Overview
The German Language and Literature Department aims to develop the skills of the students of the language in all its aspects; translation, literature, and linguistics.
The department also focuses on cultivating the concept of critical and creative thinking in students in addition to encouraging them to perform scientific research as a method to improve their research skills.
These efforts are made to prepare qualified graduates who can satisfy the marketplace's needs.
The academic program includes theoretical and applied curriculums in addition to practical training which aims at providing the students with essential research and practical skills.
The department aspires to develop scientific research practice in the fields of theoretical and applied research in addition to comparative efforts in the field of the German language, literature, linguistics, and translation.
Vision
The German Language and Literature Department aspires to hold a unique position among similar departments across the Egyptian faculties. The department adopts a full-fledged system that ensures that graduates have the language skills and knowledge to compete both nationally and internationally.
Mission
The department strives to prepare well-qualified graduates who are capable of meeting national, regional, and international academic standards by exposing them to an environment that encourages critical and creative thinking.
Goals
- Developing the student's language and communication skills.
- Encouraging the students to be fully aware of the culture of the German-speaking countries.
- Improving the critical and creative thinking skills of the students in addition to enhancing their scientific research skills.
- Preparing excellent cadres in the German language who are capable of acting as a linking point between the different cultures.
- Focusing on improving the graduates' skills by exposing them to rich academic programs in the German language discipline in addition to a second language and the mother language.
Education system
- The faculty’s education language is according to specialization language (English – French- Chinese- etc.) except for Arabic courses and the second language.
- The student is allowed to enroll 12 credit hours (minimum) and 18-20 credit hours (maximum) per semester (spring-summer) according to the curriculum plan for different specializations.
- The student must attend not less than 75% of the course’s total hours.
- The student can add or remove one course or more until the 3rd week of the spring semester or until the 2nd week of the summer semester.
- The absence percentage is calculated in added courses starting from the day of enrollment.
- The course’s grade is out of 100. The minimum grade to pass any course is 50 out of 100.
- For any student to pass any course must achieve 40% of the course’s total grade or she will be considered to fail with (BF) grade.