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The Red & Black student newspaper talked to students who had to pivot to online learning from their Study Abroad plans after the pandemic happened.

One student's experience with online Study Abroad in Freiburg

Like so many changes that have happened since COVID-19 became a part of lives worldwide, having to switch your study abroad experience to online classes is not what anybody envisioned. But students made the best of the situation, taking classes online from home, such as Dr.

A summer schedule for Stammtisch and Kaffestunde virtual conversation tables, held the last Friday and First Monday of each month through Aug. 2020 via Zoom.

Summer Schedule for Kaffeestunde & Stammtisch

If you've never experienced a conversation group to practice your German, summer is the perfect time to check it out. Of course, the summer of 2020 is virtually the best opportunity to participate in either Stammtisch or Kaffeestunde -- both via Zoom this summer.

Dr. Berna Gueneli, Associate Professor of German at the University of Georgia.

Fellowships, visiting lecturers, and a new book project

We congratulate Germanic & Slavic Studies faculty, Dr.

Slide from the Graduation and Awards Ceremony congratulating Germanic & Slavic Studies' Class of 2020

Virtual Graduation and Awards Ceremony celebrated Class of 2020

Graduates of the Germanic & Slavic Studies Class of 2020 and Department award winners were celebrated in a virtual ceremony on May 8th, via video conference. Students and their families were invited to the ceremony and the brief virtual reception that followed.

An image of the new website created by German students in the Senior Seminar Class 2020. It was a collaborative project the students took on after classes had to start meeting remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions.

German Senior Seminar creates a collaborative newspaper for final project

by Katherine Hoovestol

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UGA Student Presents at Annual German Studies Association Conference

This year the German Studies Association held their annual conference in Atlanta from September 26th-29th. Sara Adkins, a Russian and German double major at UGA, presented her project titled, "Post-Wall Russian-German Interventions in German Literature."    The project was formed this… Read full article

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