UPCOMING EVENTS

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About Us

Our faculty is nationally ranked for its research productivity, and recognized for its teaching record and intellectual contributions to the field. Through a wide range of courses, we provide our undergraduates with a an excellent background in German culture, literature, and language to educate them to live and work in an ever-increasing global world. Graduate students engage in advanced study in German, preparing them for a variety of professions, including teaching, translation, and foreign service. Through our High School Day and other public events, our department acts as a resource for German culture in the greater Chicago area and is grateful to earn significant donor support for its students and programs.

News

Jeffrey Saba, an undergraduate double-major in German and Anthropology, was awarded a Flaherty Scholarship from the Honors College to support study abroad at the Humboldt University in Berlin for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Bradley Prager, Associate Professor of German and Film at the University of Missouri, will give the following talk at the Institute for the Humanities on Wednesday, April 4th at 2:00 p.m.: "The Images Dominate: Reconstructing Propaganda and Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished (2010)".

Awards Day 2012 will be held Tuesday, April 10th at 3:00 p.m. in the Jane Addams-Hull House Dining Hall.

A workshop on Creative Grammar Teaching (PDF of event poster) will be held FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd, 2012 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in the Daley Library, Conference Room 1-470. Contact Professor Mareike Müller (mareikem@uic.edu) for information.

Click here to download the Spring 2012 Calendar of Undergraduate Events.

Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, was featured in a recent article on unique college courses in Chicago (link to article in the Tribune's Red Eye Newspaper). The "Golden Twenties in Berlin" is part of Hall's GER 318 (PDF), which is being taught this semester.

Click here for a photo of graduating Germanic Studies and Teaching of German majors and minors at the Spring 2011 Commencement, pictured with Professor David Weible. Congratulations to graduates Mihail Tsvetkov, Stephanie Mayer, Matthew Antinucci, Jessica Rawlings, Christine Beggan, Christopher Mueller, Alexis Thomas, Allyson Zelewsky, Jeffrey Tyson, Sandra Kneip, Matthew Galik and Julie Deptner (pictured left to right).

Germanic Studies Earns High Marks

In 2008, the Department of Germanic Studies was ranked third in the country by the Chronicle of Higher Education for its scholarly production. Only Harvard and Georgetown earned higher marks. READ ON