April 11, 2008
U. of Southern California to Shutter Its German Department
The University of Southern California has announced that, at the end of the academic year, it will disband its German department and no longer offer majors and minors in the language.
The decision, said Howard Gillman, the university's dean of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, was a pragmatic calculation based on declining enrollment, a nearly 17-year freeze on hiring new faculty in the department, and shifting priorities at the school.
But students of
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