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The German and Russian Studies Department offers BA and MA degrees in two cultures and languages of critical significance in the world today - German and Russian - and gives undergraduates the opportunity to study rich cultural traditions associated with several other languages of increasing importance in a global economy. We provide classes in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean language and civilizations, Israeli culture, and the Arabic language. Our internationally recognized faculty pursues research in the wider arena of German and of Russian cultural studies, including literature, film, media studies, philosophy, and the history of science.
-Greta Westerwald has been accepted for the Graduate School Experience being held at the Ohio State University this summer (more)
-Paul Bolfing will spend the 2009-2010 year studying in Moscow, Russia, and Bonn and Marburg, Germany. (more)
- Rachel Reed: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in German awarded (more)
- Paul Weber and Lindsey Foat: MU winners of the 2008 and 2009 DAAD interXchange internship and Marcus Vincent: winner of the CDIS Congress-Bundestag Scholarship (more)
- Monika Fischer and Megan McKinstry were awarded the 2007 Helen Williams Award for Excellence in Collegiate Independent Study. (more)
German Newsletter (Spring 2009 issue) (pdf)
NEW COURSE FOR FALL 2009! Discover the brave new media world: Blogging the World: The Web in Cultural Context (German 4005/7005, cross-listed as Russian 4005/7005) will be team taught by German Department Professor Monika Fischer and Journalism Professor Clyde Bentley. The course will be taught in English, but employs the special skills of both language students and journalists.
The goal of the class is to glean compelling cultural information from the Web, organize or rewrite it as necessary and package it in an English-language blog available to all MU students and the community interested in international studies and languages.
If you are interested in the class, please contact Clyde Bentley at
bentleycl@missouri.edu or Monika Fischer at fischerm@missouri.edu as soon as possible for a consent number.
GERMAN 3830 REFORMATTED FOR FALL 2009! History of the German Film: Screening The Past (same as Film Studies 3830)
German films are now more than ever engaged in representing the German past, particularly the Second World War and the Holocaust. This course investigates how German cinema screens its confrontations with issues of history and memory. It analyzes how German film negotiates questions of German responsibility and the violence that the Third Reich enacted on those around it. How do German films address a past of perpetration? How do box-office friendly “thrillers” engage with the past, either directly or indirectly? How do German films elide empathies with Jewish victims of the Holocaust? This course examines these questions in light of both German history and film history. English dubbing or subtitles. No foreign language credit. Prerequisites: sophomore standing or instructor's consent.
- German course number and name changes (in Word)
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