The Student Experience

The Vienna Experience: History, Culture, Language | Austria, Summer 2024

"Irene Motyl-Mudretzkyj, senior associate professor in German and the coordinator of the Barnard Language Program, traveled with eight Barnard and Columbia students to Vienna — who completed at least two years of German language study at the College or the equivalent — for a monthlong, fully funded study abroad course that immersed them in the German language as well as in the history, politics, and culture of their host city."

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Student Film Projects

GERM BC3022

Vienna Stories: Filming Identities and Voices
Prof. Irene Motyl-Mudretzkyj's course includes a week-long project in Vienna during the spring break for Advanced German-language students from Barnard and Columbia.

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GERM BC3009

News and Views

Students apply their skills and findings, after conducting research in German and working with German, Austrian and Swiss cultural institutions, newspapers, companies, cultural centers located in New York. At the end of the semester, students create and write their own German-language documentary film, edit the documentary and present it to the class and other students of German.

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GERM BC3012

Telenovelas
In this German language course, students explore the genre Telenovela, watch segments of the German Telenovela “Verliebt in Berlin” and write, film, act in and edit their own Telenovela.

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