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Germanic & Slavic Studies is offering the following courses in the Spring 2022 term (May to August 2022):

German:
GER 101 online: Elementary German 1 
GER 102 online: Elementary German 2

Dutch:
DUTCH 101 online: Elementary Dutch 1
DUTCH 102 online: Elementary Dutch 2

Russian:
RUSS 101 on-campus: Elementary Russian 1
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:00pm to 5:20pm

Professor Alice Kuzniar received a SSHRC Insight Grant for her research about the influence of the writings and practice of the renowned homeopath Clemens von Bönninghausen on the poetry of Germany's foremost female writer, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. For this, she asks the question: How can one meaningfully bring together the very different fields of medicine and literature? Professor Kuzniar says that this grant allows her to pursue this line of research and form a team of medical historians and literary scholars.

Read the summary of her proposal below: