Describes the restructuring of the German department at Stanford University: paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, December 26, 1973, Chicago, Illinois. (RL)

Discusses the merits of a practice examination modeled after the final examination administered in German classes at the University of Nebraska. (RL)

Describes an innovative, college-level, German course offered at the University of Hull, England. (RL)

An intensive elementary-level language course for college students, seeking to provide meaningful application of language skills and to improve student attitudes toward second language learning, is described in this report. The three-term course in which students work extensively with undergraduate apprentice teachers while living in language…

An experimental, intensive German language course for graduate students at Washington State University is described. (RL)

Underscores the importance and influence of positive attitudes as a factor which affects achievement in second language learning. (RL)

A successful course at the University of Delaware teaches German literature in translation. Sample paper topics and class projects are noted, and it is argued that translation courses do not weaken a language program, but often stimulate students to study the language itself. (CHK)

German as a Foreign Language Philology is a new subject developed at the New Philology Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. Students whose native language is not German can earn a Master of Arts in this field. The study plan, educational goals, and the content and organization of the curriculum are described. (Text is in German.) (TL)

Assesses a volume of essays evaluating German studies in the United States. Problems pointed out in the essays include isolation of Germanists; lack of flexibility in choice of syllabi; the place of "culture" in German studies; lack of basic language skills in college students, and language teacher training. (CHK)

A "German Semester" concentrates four or five simultaneous courses in German language; literature; art and music; science, philosophy and psychology; and social sciences, with faculty as well as outside lecturers from the various disciplines. (CHK)

Describes an experimental language program for students of architecture in its fifth year at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (RL)