“Was ist Liebe/What is Love? German-American Relations(hips)”
An Exhibit as Part of the Deutschlandjahr, at the University of Illinois, August 2019
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German Studies has always grappled with navigating the relationship between geopolitical and linguistic-cultural spaces. Germany From the Outside brings current debates about curricular and institutional issues together with discussions about the relation between nation, language, and culture.
Charlie Webster, Director of the German Language Program, has been named the next Director of Illinois's Center for Language Instruction and Teaching (CLIC). He will assume that role in Fall 2019, while maintaining his position in the Germanic Department.
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- German minor and recent University of Illinois graduate Kiersten Heiman has been admitted to the School of Law at Washington University-St. Louis, one of the nation's most competitive law schools.
- German minor and recent University of Illinois graduate Emily Freiburger has won a grant to teach English in Austria, under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation and the Austrian-American Education Commission.
- Mara Wade was chosen to receive a 2018 Reimar Lüst Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Career Paths in Germanic Languages and Literatures
GER 403Introduction to the professions of language services and the discipline of Translation Studies. The course provides training in translation practice to and from German and English, including audiovisual, professional, scientific, and literary samples.
GER 472/574How Romantic are we? Where does Romanticism still persist today? Texts include *Frankenstein,* *The Terrors of Ice and Darkness,* contemporary films, paintings, and programmatic texts of German Romantic and Idealist philosophy. In English, with no prerequisites.
SCAN 225An introduction to the history, literature, and culture of Scandinavia and the Nordic region, from the Viking age until the modern era (700s-present). Includes discussion of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Svalbard, and Greenland. All readings in English.
GER 261Discusses the pre-history and history of the Holocaust, and examines cultural representations of the Holocaust in literature, film, and critical essays.
GER 251We read substantial parts of the Grimms' 19th-century collections and some of their French and Italian predecessors, and we consider other storytelling forms, film, and illustration. Why do we continue to tell and to know these tales?
