Come practice your German at our weekly Kaffeestunde, now meeting again on Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30p, at Espresso Royale in Urbana. All levels are welcome, and some classes offer extra credit for attendance (check with your instructor). Questions? Contact Laura Olbrich.
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Dr. Walker Horsfall joins the Department in Fall 2022 as Lecturer in Medieval German and Scandinavian Studies. Dr. Horsfall completed his dissertation at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies, with a focus on the interrelation of science, natural philosophy, and literature in the middle ages. At Illinois, he will teach the popular Viking Mythology course as well as other classes...
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- Enjoy coffee and pastries while learning about the University of Illinois Deutschklub! Wednesday, September 28 from 1-4p on the Main Quad near the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics (= Foreign Languages Building, FLB).
- Applications are welcome for this tenure-track assistant professorship in Scandinavian and German Medieval Studies. See https://jobs.aatg.org/job/assistant-professor/65619586/ for more information. Successful candidates are...
- Sophia Ebel double-majored in German Studies and in Comparative and World Literature, with minors in French and Arabic. She graduated in May 2022, and has won a Fulbright grant to teach English and conduct research in Austria in 2022-2023! At UIUC, Sophia served as president of UIUC Deutschklub,...
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Career Paths in Germanic Languages and Literatures
GER 465Explore 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...
GER 473We 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...
GER 396In 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...
GER 201It 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...
GER 261We 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...
GER and SCANCheck us out in Spring 2021! Some of our courses are highlighted here, and contact Prof. Laurie Johnson for more information about our full range of offerings!
GER 101This online course will be offered during the second half of the Fall 2020 semester. Vienna, Austria will be your virtual classroom as you learn German! You'll interact with Austrian students via online assignments, and investigate themes related to your major or minor (in ACES, BUS, ENG, LAS, FAA...
