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Basil Agu
Congratulations Basil Agu!
Ernst A. Philippson Graduate Research Travel Award: Awarded to a graduate student in the department for dissertation research travel abroad. 
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Congratulations Meredyth Morin!
Edelweiss Scholarship Award: Awarded to students intending to become a high school teacher. 
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Congratulations Charlie Mayschak!
Edelweiss Scholarship Award: Awarded to students intending to become a high school teacher.
Anne Olmstead
Congratulations to Anne Olmstead!
Congratulations to Anne Olmstead, Office Manager in the Departments of Germanic Languages & Literatures and French & Italian! Anne is a recipient of this year's Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award in the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. Anne not only demonstrates the...
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Join us for Andrew Schwenk's Defense
FINAL EXAMINATIONofAndrew Schwenkconsisting of the oral defense of the thesisImagining New Worlds: Narratives of Mobility in the German Volksbuch during the Age of Global Reformationsprepared under the direction of ProfessorMara Wadeand the Doctoral Committee of...
Noel B
Congratulations to Noel Brindise!
Noel Brindise, who completed the MA as well as the BA in German, has successfully defended her doctoal dissertation in Aerospace Engineering, also at the University of Illinois! Noel notes that GLL is "a fantastic department...endlessly supportive. It's also clear to me all the time how my...

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Comprehensive curriculum in language, culture, and linguistics

In addition to courses in German for the complete immersion experience, we offer numerous classes in English, most of which fulfill General Education requirements. Undergraduates can also pursue study abroad in Vienna or elsewhere in the German-speaking world via Illinois Abroad and Global Exchange, and our graduate students regularly win fellowships to do research at a wide range of universities and libraries in Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia. Join us!

Illinois in Vienna Graduate study and research

GER 465 - Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich

GER 465 - Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich

Explore the German language in Austria from a sociolinguistic perspective.

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.

GER 473

 GER 396 - 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.

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.

GER 201

 Holocaust on Film

GER 261 - Holocaust on Film

We investigate literary and filmic representations of the Holocaust.

GER 261

 courses 2025

Germanic Department Courses Spring 2025

Check us out in Spring 2025! Some of our courses are highlighted here, and contact Charlie Webster (cwebste@illinois.edu) for more information about our full range of GER and SCAN offerings!

2025 Course Offerings