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GERMAN, RUSSIAN, AND EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY - Languages & Cultures |
Department Resources
The department reading room and lounge, 115 Shatzel Hall, holds variety of reference works, newspapers, and magazines from all of the countries represented in the department. Guests are always welcome! A library of information on study abroad, travel abroad, internships and other opportunities is housed in the reading room. Feel free to come in and browse. The German Club, Japanese Club, Russian Club, and Chinese Club host a variety of weekly activities, including field trips to cultural events. There is a weekly Stammtisch at a locale near campus. All interested may join in German conversation with other students, graduate students, and guests from Germany and Austria. The weekly International Film Series. Each semester at least twelve feature films from around the world are shown in the university's attractive Gish Film Theater. The IFS is organized by the department with major funding from the BGSU Foundation. The BGSU Language Learning Center is one of the most advanced learning centers of its kind in this region of the U.S. An extensive departmental videotheque holds approximately 500 feature films and television programs. More films on foreign affairs are available on campus closed circuit televsion, BGSU Channel 27. TV news and general interest programming is broadcast twenty-four hours
on campus closed circuit channel 2. Please stop at the department reading
room, 115 Shatzel Hall, to watch. The daily schedule is as follows:
8 A.M. - in English
Full-length German drama productions are staged every other year. The Department has had a writer-in-residence program for the past 10 years. Writers from Germany or Austria regularly offer courses on their work and on contemporary German literature during the fall semester. Special facilities are available for Japanese cultural activities at the Nakamoto tea ceremony room and the Nakamoto room for Japanese Studies. |
