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The first and foremost goal of the
Department of German and Russian
at the University of Vermont is to provide excellent instruction in our
language, culture, and literature classes. (We offer the B.A. and
M.A. degree in German, the B.A. degree in Russian, and two years of
Hebrew
instruction.) The Department has an outstanding teaching
reputation.
The dedication to serious scholarship is equally strong and
successful.
Faculty members have gained national and international recognition for
their published books and articles.
Language, literature, and culture play the major part in pursuing the
study of German and Russian. Basic linguistic skills need to be
mastered first, but they open the possibility of reading and studying
literary texts from the Middle Ages to the present time. While an
historical background is of much importance for meaningful
understanding of newer intellectual developments, greater emphasis is
placed on the language and its various uses in the past two
centuries. With this solid background students can go abroad and
enlarge their knowledge through first-hand experiences in
Russia or in one of the German-speaking countries. Fluency in the
German
and Russian languages is enhanced through study abroad, and the
personal and
intellectual experiences result in a more informed view of the
world. Future employment opportunities using either German or
Russian are also very much in the realm of possibility.
University of Vermont
414-422A Waterman Building
85 South Prospect Street
Burlington, Vermont 05405-0160
Telephone: (802) 656-3430
Fax: (802) 656-8028
Email: German-Russian@uvm.edu
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