Commitment to Teaching and Service

Diversity is about counting people… Inclusion is about insisting they count.

~Atif Choudhury, Diversity & Inclusion

We provide outstanding teaching from many years of experience as educators, community scholars and activists. We build confidence in every student’s linguistic and cultural competency through a structured learning environment. We serve every student with empathy, dedication, and enthusiasm.

The Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies

• offers language, literary, and cultural studies teaching

• organizes unique, small adult group, study tours to Germany

• provides one-on-one instruction and small classes in German, as well as bilingual (German/English) seminars with a learner-centered approach

• specializes in teaching for students, professionals, family members, and travelers interested in knowledge of German-speaking countries

• teaches speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills in German within cross-cultural contexts

• evaluates students’ differing learning styles and supports students’ strengths

• uses high-quality text- and workbooks, interactive CD ROMs, audio- and videotapes, online resources, and promotes innovative teaching materials

• offers a variety of courses, such as elementary, intermediate, and advanced German, seminars in Holocaust history and literature, philosophy, women’s and minority literature, autobiography, and oral history

• facilitates public readings and discussion groups in the community