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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

Dr. Joshua Bousquette leads a class discussion with graduate students at the University of Georgia.

UGA Faculty Member awarded fellowship to study linguistic diversity in the German language

Our warmest congratulations to Dr.

Germanic and Slavic Studies at UGA alum Robert Klosinski teaching an online class from Germany after getting stuck due to travel restrictions.

Former UGA German grad student stuck in Germany teaching online classes for Penn State

Germanic & Slavic Studies' M.A. alum Robert Klosinski has been profiled in a feature story about teaching his Penn State classes remotely from Germany, after Covid-19 travel restrictions prevented his return to the U.S. as a non-citizen.

Dr. Sasha class leads a discussion of Russian literature at the University of Georgia.

Two Germanic & Slavic Studies Faculty earn promotions

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SPARK Fellowship Awarded to German Studies Student

German & English Double Major, Cooper Sunderland, has been chosen for the 2024 SPARK Award in Creative Writing for his project proposal titled, "Art-A Refuge Abroad."

In his own summary of the project Sunderland shared, "Through this project, Dr. Uelzmann and I intend to document how… Read full article

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