Join us for German conversation every Thursday from 7-8 p.m., on Zoom! Kaffeestunde begins Thursday, February 4th, and will continue until Thursday, April 29th. Contact John Slattery (jslatte2@illinois.edu) for Zoom link and meeting ID. Speakers on all levels, from GER 101 to native, are welcome! You'll need to bring...
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Join us for Swedish conversation every Thursday from 4:30-5:30 p.m., on Zoom! Fika begins Thursday, January 28th, 2021. 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!
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- 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.
- Marie is a German Education major who plans to become a high school German teacher in the state of Illinois after graduation. Marie is also a member of the Marching Illini, the German national honorary society Delta Phi Alpha, and a recipient of the 2019 Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois...
- Explore our new degrees in German Studies! As of Fall 2020, it will be easier to add the major, and/or you may be much closer to the minor. We continue to offer our ...
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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...
