General Competence
• Understanding of the history of German immigration to the United States 
• Understanding of the social, cultural, and political institutions established by German-Americans in the United States
• Understanding of the language and literary tradition of German-Americans, during the 19th and early 20th centuries

Specialized Knowledge
• Broad overview of the theoretical approaches and experimental methods to studying language maintenance or language shift, as caused by language-external factors
• Close familiarity with primary demographic sources used to reconstruct contemporary German-American social, cultural, and political institutions
• Close familiarity with German-language literature, newspapers, travel logs, meeting minutes, court records, and audio corpora that represent contemporary language use
• Familiarity with (publicly) available German-language ego documents (diaries, letters, personal ledgers) 

Specialized Abilities
•The ability to identify the effects of German-English bilingualism, including dialect influence, standard language ideology, cross-linguistic transfer, and also independent linguistic innovations
•The ability to recognize cross-cultural differences between German-Americans and their Yankee neighbors, through contemporary literature and meta-linguistic discourse
•The ability to apply historical cultural lessons to modern (cross-)cultural situations

1.	Introduction: Emigration and Immigration
2.	(European) German Perspectives on America
3.	Anti-immigrant Sentiment
4.	The World Wars
5.	The Temperance Movement
6.	German-American Dual Identity: Language and Citizenship
7.	Assimilation and Post-vernacular
8.	Modern Analogs: Spanish in the Americas and Turkish in Germany