This Spring, the department is offering: Game of Thrones, Babylon Berlin, Fairy Tales in Context, Holocaust in Context (both as a full-semester and as an 8-week ACP course), Vikings to Volvos: Scandinavia, Viking Sagas in Translation, Vikings in the West, Intro to German Literature, and German Cultural History. In addition, Aura Heydenreich, Max Kade Visiting Professor will teach: “Flight,...
Spring '22 classes
Germanic Studies
Game of Thrones
Babylon Berlin
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The German Filmabende (with English subtitles) begin again on Wednesdays at 7p in 249 Bevier Hall. Registration is required: please sign up on the Google form at least three days before the event: https://forms.gle/P2vEt3WrDq1buDmJ8...
Come practice your German with us at our informal weekly Kaffeestunde! Our participants range from beginners to native speakers, and all are welcome! Mondays 6-7p on the patio of Espresso Royale, corner of Oregon and Goodwin in Urbana, beginning on September 13! Contact John Slattery or Laura Olbrich ...
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- At "Undergraduate Program in German at Illinois Urbana-Champaign," you'll find information about upcoming events, internships, fellowships, study abroad, and all things GLL! Join our online community today!
- 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.
- Sophia is a double major in German Studies and in Comparative and World Literature, with minors in French and Arabic. After graduation she hopes to conduct research on representation in children’s books and school materials, eventually going into education policy and curriculum development. Sophia...
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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...
