Neues Curriculum

By Friederike Eigler, Gabi Kathoefer, Lisabeth Hock, Charlotte Melin, and Karen Remmler

The following contributions, including this introduction, are based on presentations for a roundtable discussion that took place at the 2008 conference of “Women in German” in Snowbird, Utah. The contributors raise a wide range of topics and concerns, a range that is in part a reflection of the diverse institutional context they represent and of the academic and administrative positions they have held:
Lisabeth Hock is associate professor of German at a Modern Language Department at Wayne State University, a large public university. The topic of her paper is “The MLA Report and the Urban, Public Institution.”
For many years, Charlotte Melin was Director of Language Instruction in the Dept. of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at U. of Minnesota, a large public research university. She is now chair of the department and currently serves on the MLA Committee on the Teaching of Languages. Her contribution addresses “Teaching Graduate Students about Teaching—Beyond the MLA Report.”
Karen Remmler is professor and chair of the German Department at Mt. Holyoke, a small private Liberal Arts College for women; prior to becoming chair, Karen Remmler served as director of the interdisciplinary Weissman Center for Leadership. Her paper is titled “Rethinking the Place of Languages in a Transcultural Curriculum: Faculty Desire Lines, Curricular Clusters, and the Liberal Arts.”

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