German Studies
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Focused on Success
CSB/SJU German is flexible, actively engaged with big ideas,
and focused on student success in and after college.
Courses
Faculty
Kurt Hollender, Ph.D. |
Brooke Kreitinger, Ph.D. |
Florian Bundschuh, Mag. |
Study and Intern Abroad
University of Eichstätt |
Augsburg, Germany |
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Fall and/or Spring Semester Study Abroad |
Summer Intern Abroad |
Careers and Post-Graduate Scholarships
What Can I Do With German?
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Current Student and Faculty Successes
Amanda Bjerke '20
- Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2020-2022)
- The National 2020 Future K-12 German Teacher Award from The National German Honor Society Delta Phi Alpha (2020)
- Future Language Educator Award, Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures (MCTLC) (2020)
- The Sister Margretta Nathe Scholarship for German (2018-2020)
- American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Mit Deutsch in die Zukunft Leipzig Summer Seminar Grant (Summer 2019)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
Florian Bundschuh, M.A.
- Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant at CSB/SJU (2020-2021)
CSB/SJU German Section
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Chapter Grant (2020-2021)
- American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) FL-A-CH Mini Grant (2020)
- Goethe-Institut Poster Exhibition Märchenwelt (2020)
- American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Deutsch macht Spaß Grant (2019)
Valerie Doze ’21
- Truman Scholarship (2020-2021)
- The Sister Margretta Nathe Scholarship for German (2020-2021)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
- Jackson Fellowship (Summer 2019)
Max Ditzler ’21
- The Otmar Drekonja German Cultural Studies Scholarship (2019-2021)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
- Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (2016-2017)
Channa Kalsow ’22
- The Otmar Drekonja German Cultural Studies Scholarship (2020-2021)
- CSB/SJU Undergraduate Research Summer Collaborative Grant Student Recipient, “Using Advances in the Visual Display of Information to Enhance Grammar and Vocabulary Instruction” (Summer 2020)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
- Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (2017-2018)
Julia Petron ’20
- Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2020-2021)
- Declined - Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2020-2021)
- The Sister Margretta Nathe Scholarship for German (2018-2020)
- DAAD Summer Language Grant, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) (Summer 2019)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
- German Summer Internship Program, Klinikum Augsburg Hospital, Augsburg (Summer 2018)
Ilyse Putz ’20
- CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences PhD. Scholarship - Universität Düsseldorf, Universität Köln, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, and Forschungszentrum Jülich (2020-present)
- Declined - Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2020-2021)
- The Sister Margretta Nathe Scholarship for German (2018-2020)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2018)
- Internship WETSCAPES-Projekt, Universität Greifswald (Summer 2018)
Kathryn Weinmann ’20
- Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2020-2021)
Joshua Bashore, ’23
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
John Engh ’22
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
Sara Hoppe ’24
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
Dr. Brooke Kreitinger '01
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
- German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award (2016)
- Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2001-2002)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society (2021)
- German Embassy “Wunderbar Together” Campus Weeks Grant (2019)
- Excellence in Advising Award for New Advisors, awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2018)
- Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars (2017)
- German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award (2016)
- German Embassy “Germany Meets the U.S.” Campus Weeks Grant (2016)
- German Embassy “25 Years Fall of the Berlin Wall” Campus Weeks Grant Recipient (2014)
- Fulbright Summer Seminar for American Faculty of German Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany (2013)
- DAAD Research Grant, University of Trier, Germany (2010-2011)
- Graduate School Scholarship, Georgetown University, (2005 - 2012)
- Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2001-2003)
William Lee ’22
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
Oliver Peterson ’22
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
Megan Radermacher ’23
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
Perrin Thompson ’23
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
Sydney Richter ’23
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
Dr. Kurt Hollender
- CSB/SJU Undergraduate Research Summer Collaborative Grant Faculty Recipient, “Using Advances in the Visual Display of Information to Enhance Grammar and Vocabulary Instruction” (Summer 2020)
- Sonderprogramm zur Förderung von Deutsch in USA Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington D.C. Grant to attend the AATG Curriculum Seminar for College Faculty (October 2019)
- Mellon Foundation, Becoming Community Travel Grant (2019)
- Mellon Foundation, Becoming Community Practitioner Certificate (2019)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2018)
- DAAD Study Grant, Freie Universität Berlin (2017)
- Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Hamburg (2006-2007)
Brittany Elsen ’09
- Minnesota American Association of Teachers of German (MNAATG) Minnesota German Educator of the Year Award, New Prague High School (2019-2020)
Allison McGraw ’19
- Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2019-2020)
Nathan Libra, ’18
- Declined - Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2019-2020)
Matthias Milchrahm
- Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant at CSB/SJU (2019-2020)
Danica Simonet, '19
- Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2019-2020)
- Declined - Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2019-2020)
- Upper Midwest Emmy Student Production Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Upper Midwest Chapter for "Bayt Jadeed: Seeking Home" (2019, co-producer and co-director)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
- Finalist – Truman Scholarship, Minnesota (2019)
- The Otmar Drekonja German Cultural Studies Scholarship (2018-2019)
- Brandl Scholarship, Jubilee USA Network, D.C. (Summer 2018)
- Jackson Scholarship, New American Services, St. Paul (Summer 2017)
Jessica Thwaites '19
- Fulbright Research Scholarship, Austria (2019-2020)
Benjamin Gjerde ’21
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2020)
Megan Handelin ’21
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2020)
Emmerich Sack, M.A.
- Honorary Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2020)
- Minnesota American Association of Teachers of German (MNAATG) Minnesota German Educator of the Year Award, Saint John’s Preparatory School (2014-2015)
Katharina Huetthaler
- Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant at CSB/SJU (2018-2019)
Michael Schocker, ’19
- The Otmar Drekonja German Cultural Studies Scholarship (2018-2019)
- Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
Sebastian Braunsberger
- Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant at CSB/SJU (2017-2018)
Matt Beck ’09
- Minnesota American Association of Teachers of German (MNAATG) Minnesota German Educator of the Year Award, Saint John’s Preparatory School (2016-2017)
- Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2009-2010)
Dr. Wendy Sterba
- DAAD Study Grant, Universität Passau (1985-86)
- DAAD Study Grant, Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich (1975-76)
For an archive of more student and faculty achievements, visit Fr. Mark Thamert's German blog.