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Language Placement Exams

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Sign-up Information & Department Contacts Taking the Language Placement Exam (See Exam Schedule) will be a two-step process unless you can satisfy the language requirement with an AP or SAT II Test – see below. You must register on Online Placement Exams...

"The Use and Value of Language Skills in the Workplace"

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The Language Center and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures present Dr. Tobias Schroedler, Junior Professor of Multilingualism and Social Inclusion at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Dr. Schroedler holds an M.Phil. (2011) and...

Scandinavian 90r. Scandinavian Language Tutorial

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Day/Time TBA Instructor Broomé Individualized study of a Scandinavian language at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. Any language not listed as a course is taught under this number...

GermPhil 280. Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching

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Day/Time This course is not being offered during the current academic year. Instructor Parkes A practical and theoretical introduction to foreign language instruction. Emphasis on historical and current theories of second language acquisition and their...

Language Citation

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Requirements in German Four of the following half-courses: German 20a, 20b, any 60-level course, or any 100-level or 200-level course conducted in German. OR Three courses: German 20ab (full-year course, 8 credits), any 60-level course, or any 100-level...

Why Choose Germanic Languages & Literatures?

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The department offers students a rich and diverse program of literary and cultural studies and several pathways through either German Studies or Scandinavian Studies, including  a secondary field, a joint concentration and a double concentration with...

Online German Language Placement Exams

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The German exam is one of four languages that uses the Harvard Placement Exam platform and is available June 21-August 24. To access the exam visit https://onlineplacement.fas.harvard.edu. Upperclass students and graduate students must register for this...

German, Dutch, Scandinavian Languages Virtual Drop-In

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Find out about German Studies, Scandinavian Studies, advising in language placement, language courses in German and Swedish, tutorials in Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, and Norwegian, as well as study and work abroad opportunities. Add this advising session to...

German 90R. Germanic Language Tutorial: Dutch

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Day/Time TBA Instructor TBA Individualized study of Dutch at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.

Germanic Languages and Literatures Open House

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Find out more about our concentration and secondary field options, as well as study and work abroad in German and Scandinavian languages.

EFoS Drop-in Advising in Germanic Languages & Literatures

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EFoS Drop-in Advising in Germanic Languages & Literatures (click on link for further information) By Advising Programs Office, Office of Undergraduate Education

Anne Dymek (Harvard) - ‘This Image is Sound’ — Nietzsche’s Anschauungsmetapher as a Theory of the Ontogenesis of Language

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In “Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne” (1873), Friedrich Nietzsche offers a fascinating but convoluted theory of the ontogenesis of language and the mentalia involved therein. I argue that his concept of Anschauungsmetapher (perceptual...