Elena Wilson (German Studies and Molecular/Cell Biology, 2020) demonstrates the breadth and depth of what German majors can do! She currently is a post-baccalaureate fellow at the National Cancer Institute under a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA). Elena has been admitted to the masters program in Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University.
We Welcome You in Spring 2021
Meet the Germanic Department at Illinois!
Reflections on a multi-lingual exchange in AustriaSophia Ebel shares her virtual global experience with a family in Vienna.
SWEA Scholarship Opportunity
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Student CommunityFind your place with us!
Meet some of our current MA and PhD students here! And learn much more about our graduate programs and life as a graduate student at Illinois.
Join us for Swedish conversation every Thursday from 5-6p.m., on Zoom! Fika begins Thursday, September 10. Contact Dr. Theo Malekin (malekin@illinois.edu) for Zoom link and meeting ID. Speakers on all levels, from novice or self-taught to native are välkommen! Vi ses!
More Department News
- Join us for German conversation every Wednesday from 6-7 p.m., on Zoom! Kaffeestunde begins Wednesday, September 2.
- Marie is a German Education major who plans to become a high school German teacher in the state of Illinois after graduation.
Events
Career Paths in Germanic Languages and Literatures
GER 465Explore the German language in Austria from a sociolinguistic perspective.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
