The German Language and Literature program, whose staff members are involved in research in a variety of fields related to German language and literature, consists of an array of lectures and research guidance.
In the field of German language, research guidance includes both the basic area of syntax and historical sociolinguistics.
In the field of German literature, students study a diverse range of subject matter that spans eras and genres, including the works about Faust starting from the sixteenth century; Goethe and Grimm from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; K.
Krauss from the end of the nineteenth century; and German literature by twentieth-century Jewish authors.
Students can also pursue comparative research into Japanese and German culture from the perspectives of art and dwellings.