The language component provides three to four hours of daily instruction in German grammar and conversation at a level appropriate to each student's proficiency. The language component carries two credits, with courses offered on several levels. Students are integrated in the regular language classes according to what level they placed into after taking the placement exam, and after an oral interview on campus before the summer session begins. Students in the German for Singers Program who placed into level 1, beginning German, will take courses with our regular beginning German students for three hours and will then have an additional hour of special language and culture training in the Singers program.

This course will use short German prose to enrich cultural context, increase vocabulary, reinforce grammatical and communicative structures, and introduce methods of literary interpretation.

Required texts:
- Ludwig Tieck: Der blonde Eckbert (Reclam);
- Franz Kafka: Das Urteil & andere Erzählungen (Fischer Taschenbuch);
- Peter Handke: Publikumsbeschimpfung & andere Sprechstücke (Suhrkamp);
- Georg Büchner: Woyzeck (Suhrkamp).