The Department of German Language of MSLU's Translation and Interpretation Faculty offers A Practical Course of German (from the 1-st to the 2-nd years) and A Practical Course in Verbal Communication Culture from the 3-d to the 5-th years) to students who pursue degree in Translation and Interpretation Studies (German as a Second/Third Language). The Department also provides a wide range of theoretical courses, such as Theory of German Phonetics, Introduction to Specialized Philology and History of German, Theory of German Grammar, German Lexicology and German Stylistics to students who have selected German as a Second Language and a Course in Basics of German Language Theory to those who study German as a Third Language.

   The Department has an academic staff of 12 (including 2 full professors, 3 associate professors, 5 senior instructors). The Department's academic interests and instruction support activities focus on research in linguistics, development of textbooks and study aids for students of German at MSLU's

   Translation and Interpretation Faculty and MSLU's Institute for Foreign Relations and Politic-Social Studies.

   The Department provides academic supervision to full-time and part-time post-graduate students, as well as to interns.
Since 2000, the Department of German Language has been headed by Elena Stanislavovna Baturina, Candidate of Philology (PhD), a graduate of the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages ( now MSLU).