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    Charlie Webster develops “Multilingual European Cities”

    Charlie Webster, who is the Director of the Basic Language Program and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, was awarded a course development grant from the European Union Center to develop a new course about how multilingualism manifests itself in European cities. The award includes a course development stipend and funding for a graduate assistant. “Multilingual European Cities” will be taught...
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  • Walker Horsfall

    Meet our new Assistant Professor, Walker Horsfall!

    Walker Horsfall joins the department this year as an Assistant Professor. Get to know him and our Scandinavian program. Check out his SCAN 252: Viking Sagas in Translation class this Spring. Follow us on Instagram to learn more about our professors and classes! ...
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    Register Now for Great Spring Classes!

    Check out this page for more information about GLL's Spring 2024 offerings. Add a German major or minor, fulfill General Education requirements with a great class, and more!
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  • Congratulations to Professor Anna Hunt!
    Prof. Hunt was selected to participate in the Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Program, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. This highly competitive award will provide 12 selected faculty participants with...
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  • Prof. Hunt receives EU Center grant
      Prof. Hunt receives EU Center grant and affiliation for her GER 199 CHP class: The Holocaust and Discourse of Human Rights, which she is currently teaching for the Campus Honors Program. World War II (1939-1945) marked a dramatic shift in how international communities think about trauma and...
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  • Congratulations to Fellowship Winners!
    For the Academic Year 2023-24, GLL doctoral candidates Felix Ayanbode and Zack Hader have been awarded, respectively, the competitive Graduate...
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  • GER 465
    GER 465

    Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich

    Explore the German language in Austria from a sociolinguistic perspective. Topics include the linguistic history of Austria, pluricentricity and standard language variation, Austrian dialects, language contact and linguistic minorities, language policy, multilingualism, and second language pedagogy...
    Course Description for GER 465
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    GER 473

    Protest Memory: Post-1989 Literature, Film, and Theory

    We will discuss a diverse archive of post-1989 literature, film, and memorials in order to reexamine the so-called Peaceful Revolution and the interval year of ’89-90. More specifically, we ask what kind of cultural memories of street activism, resistance, and alternative social vision were left...
    Course Description for GER 473
  • Babylon Berlin
    GER 396

    Babylon Berlin

    In 1929, Berlin was known to be a hedonistic city of extremes: corrupt wealth existed alongside destitute poverty and an underground world of wild parties and glamour. In this course we delve into the internationally acclaimed television series “Babylon Berlin” to explore the Golden Twenties in...
    Course Description for GER 396
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    GER 201

    German Popular Culture: Tales of Horror

    It is hard to overstate how central vampires and zombies, doppelgänger and killers, ghosts and artificial humans—haunted hybrids—have been to the construction of German identity. Few exercises reveal more about a culture than exploring its evolving pathologies, which is exactly what those seemingly...
    Course Description for GER 201
  • Holocaust on Film
    GER 261

    The Holocaust on Film

    We investigate literary and filmic representations of the Holocaust. While a single course cannot do justice to this complex topic, we read four novels and screen five films concerning cultural representations of victims and perpetrators, and Holocaust denial and documentation. Please note that you...
    Course Description for GER 261
  • Spring 2024
    GER and SCAN

    Germanic Department Courses Spring 2024

    Check us out in Spring 2024! Some of our courses are highlighted here, and contact Charlie Webster for more information about our full range of offerings!
    Course Description for GER and SCAN

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