DEUTSCHLAND HEUTE – Facets of Contemporary Germany June 6 – 26, 2021
This study abroad program is coordinated by the Northern Illinois University Study Abroad Office (SAO), in cooperation with the NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
The International Academy Internationales Haus Sonnenberg, St. Andreasberg, Germany, will be a cooperating institution overseas.
PROGRAM DATES: The program will officially begin on Sunday, June 6, 2021 in St. Andreasberg, Germany, and will end on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Students will be responsible for making their own air travel arrangements in order to arrive in St. Andreasberg/Internationales Haus Sonnenberg (IHS) on Sunday, June 6, 2021.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Friedemann Stuebing, Department of World Languages and Literatures, NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
After his studies in Vienna (Austria) and Marburg (Germany), Friedemann Stuebing worked as a teacher in a college-preparatory high school. Since 1998, he is Instructor of German at NIU. He is an active member of AATG, participates in workshops and was involved in writing the book “Prüfungstraining Deutsch – AP German Language and Culture”, and a collection of STEM teaching units. In cooperation with Volker Langeheine (University of Braunschweig, Germany), he created workbooks for teachers of German as a Second Language with the title “Deutschland erleben – Die deutsche Märchenstra e” (Arbeitsheft Deutsch als Fremdsprache I), “Märchenwerkstatt – Märchen von der Deutschen Märchenstra e im Unterricht“ (Arbeitsheft Deutsch als Fremdsprache II), Currywurst ist Kult“ (Arbeitsheft Deutsch als Fremdsprache III), and Unterwegs im Märchenland“ (Arbeitsheft für Anfangsunterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache IV). Since 2019, Stuebing is the Coordinator of the World Languages Learning Center (WLLC).
Co-director and lecturer will be Volker Langeheine, who holds degrees in German, History and Pedagogy from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. He is a certified high school teacher in Germany and the US and held teaching positions at various schools and universities in both countries for the last 30 years. Currently he is teaching German language and culture to American IT and Business exchange students at TU Braunschweig and conducts professional development seminars for teachers and courses for students of German as a foreign language in cooperation with the International House Sonnenberg in Germany. Most recently he published
Deutschland Heute – Facets of Contemporary Germany – 2021 Page 2 preparatory materials for the new AP German Language and Culture exam (Deutsch als Fremdsprache - Prüfungstraining AP German Language and Culture, Berlin: Cornelsen 2013) with a team of experienced American educators as well as workbooks for the German Youth Hostel Association (2012) and the German Fairy Tale Road ( 2014,with Friedemann Stuebing). He also developed web-based teaching units for the Goethe Institute’s Wirtschaftsdeutsch online project, published articles on business German, creative writing, linguistic pragmatics, fairy tales, language pedagogy and edited a book on Deutsch in der beruflichen Kommunikation. He served as President of AATG Nebraska as well as the Nebraska International Languages Association and as a member of the AATG Executive Council. He has been a frequent presenter at AATG/ACTFL national conventions and other conferences as well as a member of the AATG/Goethe Institute Multiplikatorennetzwerk
PROGRAM OVERVIEW/OBJECTIVES: Students will be introduced to an international culture through this immersion into Germany’s language and culture. Participation in this program will greatly benefit the language competence of the students and is therefore an integral part of the German Language Curriculum at NIU. The language objectives for students of the program are as follows: