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Read article: Prof. Hunt receives EU Center grant
Prof. Hunt receives EU Center grant
  Prof. Hunt receives EU Center grant and affiliation for her GER 199 CHP class: The Holocaust and Discourse of Human Rights, which she is currently teaching for the Campus Honors Program. World War II (1939-1945) marked a dramatic shift in how international communities think about trauma...
Read article: Charlie Webster develops “Multilingual European Cities”
Charlie Webster develops “Multilingual European Cities”
Charlie Webster, who is the Director of the Basic Language Program and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, was awarded a course development grant from the European Union Center to develop a new course about how multilingualism manifests itself in European cities. The award includes a course...
Read article: Congratulations to Professor Anna Hunt!
Congratulations to Professor Anna Hunt!
Prof. Hunt was selected to participate in the Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Program, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. This highly competitive award will provide 12 selected faculty participants with...
Read article: Meet our new Assistant Professor, Walker Horsfall!
Meet our new Assistant Professor, Walker Horsfall!
Walker Horsfall joins the department this year as an Assistant Professor. Get to know him and our Scandinavian program. Check out his SCAN 252: Viking Sagas in Translation...
Read article: New Book by Prof. Emeritus Karl-Heinz Schoeps-Jensen
New Book by Prof. Emeritus Karl-Heinz Schoeps-Jensen
Professor Emeritus Karl-Heinz Schoeps-Jensen has published Von Hitlers Deutschland zu Trumps Amerikaan autobiographical reminiscence about two brothers, about the twentieth century, and about the...
Read article: Register Now for Great Spring Classes!
Register Now for Great Spring Classes!
Check out this page for more information about GLL's Spring 2024 offerings. Add a German major or minor, fulfill General Education requirements...

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Career Paths in Germanic Languages and Literatures

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Comprehensive curriculum in language, culture, and linguistics

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In addition to courses in German for the complete immersion experience, we offer numerous classes in English, most of which fulfill General Education requirements. Undergraduates can also pursue study abroad in Vienna or elsewhere in the German-speaking world via Illinois Abroad and Global Exchange, and our graduate students regularly win fellowships to do research at a wide range of universities and libraries in Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia. Join us!

GER 465 - Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich

GER 465 - Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich

Explore the German language in Austria from a sociolinguistic perspective.

GER 465

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GER 473 - Protest Memory: Post-1989 Literature, Film, and Theory

We 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 473

GER 396 - Babylon Berlin

GER 396 - Babylon Berlin

In 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 396

GER 201

GER 201 - German Popular Culture: Tales of Horror

It 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 201

Holocaust on Film

GER 261 - Holocaust on Film

We investigate literary and filmic representations of the Holocaust.

GER 261

Spring 2024 Course Offerings

Germanic Department Courses Spring 2024

Check us out in Spring 2024! Some of our courses are highlighted here, and contact Charlie Webster (cwebste@illinois.edu) for more information about our full range of offerings!

2024 Course Offerings