Teaching
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2020 -: Exchange professor at the University of Trier
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2007 - : Professor at Appalachian State University
2004 - : Exchange professor at the University of Trier
1995-2007: Associate Professor at Appalachian State University
1990-95: Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University
1994-96: The first professor to teach via distance at Appalachian State. Taught German via Distance to 4 high schools in Catawba County, NC, and to UNC-Asheville
1992-93: Taught German via the North Carolina Impact System (Distance Learning Technology) to Watauga High School
1992-97: Taught German at Watauga High School to establish German Program
1989-90: Visiting Lecturer, Appalachian State University
1989: Visiting Lecturer, North Carolina State University
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​Quality Matters Certificates
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2020: Designing Your Online Course (DYOC)
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2017: Designing Your Blended Course (DYBC); Designing Your Online Course (DYOC); Independent Applying the QM Rubric (APPQMR) : (Statewide Systems)
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Awards
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2016: AppOn. Online Course Development Grant. Center for Academic Excellence. Appalachian State University ($2500)
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2014: Fourteen for 2014. Online Course Development Grant. Learning Technology Services ($5000)
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2013: Award Nominee for the Wayne Duncan Faculty enrichment and Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in General Education
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2012: Recipient of the UNC Board of Governor’s Excellence in Teaching Award (Appalachian State University School/College Award) ($1500)
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2000-01: Appointed member of the College of Arts and Sciences Academy of Outstanding Teachers
2000-01: Nominated for the UNC Board of Governors Teaching Award
1999-00: Nominated for the UNC Board of Governors Teaching Award
1998-99: Recipient of the University of North Carolina Board of
Governors Excellence in Teaching Award (Appalachian State
University School/College Award)
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Courses Taught
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Beginning German I and II
Intermediate German I and II
German Grammar Review I and II
German Conversation and Composition I and II
Advanced Conversation I and II
German Phonetics and Diction
German Customs and Folklore
Goethe's Poetry and Faust
The Age of the Enlightenment
German Culture and Civilization before 1900
German Culture and Civilization of Modern Germany
German Through Film
German Literature and Film
Modern German Culture Through Film
Great Cities I and II
Various Independent Study German Courses
Das Amerikabild der Deutschen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert
Deutsche Literature im Kontext
LLC Film Adaptations of European Works I and II (Pre and Post WWII)
European Literature Through Film
German Business Culture
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New Course Development
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Fall 2021: Cultural Aspects of the German Diaspora
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Spring 2021: The German Image of America
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Spring 2020: GER 1010: the first asynchronous online GER Beginning I course taught in the German section.
Spring 2020: GER 2005: the first asynchronous online GER Grammar course taught in the German section.
Summer and Fall 2020: LLC 2025: “Literature and Film of the World Wars”
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Summer 2016: Literature in Translation: Pre World War I
Summer 2016: Literature in Translation: Post World War I
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Summer 2011: Written in Blood: A Literature of War and The Wars of our Fathers - in collaboration with Dr. Cameron Lippard (Sociology) and Ryan Jones (History)
Summer 2010: Literature in Translation. Film Adaptations of European Works.
Summer 2009: Germany’s Place in a Changing World - in collaboration with Dr. Cameron Lippard (Sociology) and Ryan Jones (History)
Spring 2008: M.A. Thesis Committee member for Katrin Deil, Department of History (“ A Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Relationship Between the German Christian Democratic Union and Women Since 1982) (Thesis)
Fall 2008: German Language Through Film
Spring 2007: Germans in Jamaica
Fall 2005: Children's and Youth Literature in Intermediate German
Fall 2004: Das Amerikabild in den deutschen Medien. Lecture series at the University of Trier, Germany
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Fall 2003: Das deutsche Lied im kulturellen Kontext. A German Studies Consortium course taught to UNC-A, UNC-G, ECU, WCU
Spring 2003: A Survey of German Poetry
Summer 2002: Intermediate German I and II and German Culture and Civilization I and II in cooperation with the University of Trier, Germany
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Spring 2000: German Business Culture in cooperation with the College of Business
Fall 1999: World Civilization in German. Distance to UNC-A and UNC-W. Co-taught with Dr. Peter Petschauer, History
Fall 1998: Goethe and His Age, Distance Seminar to UNC-A, WCU
Fall 1997: Modern German Studies, Distance Seminar taught to UNC-A, WCU
1995: Honors course: German History and Literature. Co-taught with Dr. Don Saunders, History
1994: Germany‘s New Cinema Film
