Application deadline: January 18, 2016
In co-operation with the German Pedagogical Exchange Office (PAD), the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German is accepting applications for positions as English-language assistants in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Kyle Scholz - around the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, it's practically a household name. Kyle first came to the University of Waterloo in 2004 to start his undergraduate degree, and he has been here ever since. After completing a Joint Honours BA in English and German, he went on to do an MA in German, and right now he is just months away from completing his PhD.
Recently a group of GSS students and faculty made the trek to the underworld. Well, not exactly the great beyond, but just the staging of Wagner's opera Die Walküre in Toronto. Read student Lisa Marie Schmidt's recent review of the trip that was organized by Prof. Ann Marie Rasmussen.
Congratulations to Hiu Laam (Yolanda) Cheung and Christopher Fulton who have been awarded the 2014 J.W. Dyck Honours Scholarship!
Katharina Schröder, a PhD student from the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, is looking for people interested in participating in her PhD research. She is exploring the experience of adults who were raised in (partly) German speaking families in Canada (and/or other places where German is not a majority language). Specifically, she is looking for participants who are taking steps to further develop their German, either formally or informally, or who have done so, as adults, in the past.
This course studies changing notions of German identity and nationhood by exploring a foundational myth of the German nation: the life and death of the hero Siegfried the Dragonslayer.
Prof. Alice Kuzniar will be teaching a new course on German transnational film in Winter Term 2015. GER 359: Transnational Film, Intercultural Encounters will explore recent German cinema's involvement with other cultures.