Teaching Environments: Workshop on German Ecological Thought in the Classroom
Teaching Environments: Workshop on German Ecological Thought in the Classroom On April 11, 2022, the German and Dutch Graduate Students Association of the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosted a virtual workshop…
Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German Special Section on “Sustainability and Community Engagement in German Studies”
Kiley Kost, Dan Nolan, and Seth Peabody served as co-curators for a section of essays entitled “Sustainability and Community Engagement in German Studies” in the Fall 2021 issue of the…
Virtual Exhibition: Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur
The virtual exhibition “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur: Ein kuratierter Spaziergang durch eine Geschichte der Verwicklungen” on the Rachel Carson Center’s Environment and Society Portal was curated by…
Syllabus: Thinking Green: Sustainability, Literature, and Culture in Germany
Target Level English, B1-B2, C1-C2 Description The following is a course description and reading list from a course I developed and taught over Zoom in Spring 2021. The class was…
Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s “Der Tunnel”
Wir bewegen uns auf Schienen, der Tunnel muss also irgendwo hinführen. Friedrich Dürrenmatt Target Level: B1-B2, C1-C2 Description: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s short story “Der Tunnel” lends itself well to textual analysis…
Diigo social bookmarking site for German environmental topics
This site, maintained by Beth Kautz at the University of Minnesota, provides a continually updated set of links to topics of interest for environmental issues in German-speaking countries.
Naturgedichte und ihr Kontext
Level: Intermediate German Description: This work sheet asks the students to search the internet and find a German ‘Naturgedicht’ they like. Once they found a poem, the students are prompted…
Syllabus: Catastrophe! Natural Disaster in German Literature
Target Level: B1-B2, C1-C2 Description: The following is a course description and reading list from a German literature course I developed and taught in Winter 2020. The class was a…
City Symphony Film Project
Level: seminar in English, cross-listed between German and Environmental Studies, intermediate (200-level) Description The materials linked here were used for a creative assignment in a class about environmental film and…
Arbeitsblatt zu Raabes “Pfisters Mühle”
Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle (1884) is often identified as the first “Umwelt-Roman.” Published in 1884, the text is an important source that illustrates and highlights the complex social and industrial processes that were enabled by the industrialization at that time. Reading Pfisters Mühle in the German classroom can be one way to introduce students simultaneously to a German classic and to important questions concerning sustainability.
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