=Germanistik http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/German_studies : German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Common German names for the field are Germanistik, Deutsche Philologie, and Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft. In English the terms Germanistics or Germanics are sometimes used, but the subject is more often referred to as German studies, German language and literature, or German philology.
Modern German studies is usually seen as a combination of two sub-disciplines: German linguistics and Germanophone literature studies.