Abbreviation | CAUTG/APAUC |
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Formation | 1962 |
Type | Organizations based in Canada |
Purpose | to promote German studies in Canada |
Region served | Canada |
Official language | English, French, German |
President | John Plews Associate Professor Department of German Saint Mary's University |
The Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) is a professional, not-for-profit learned society promoting German Studies in Canada. The association was founded by professors from twelve Canadian Universities in 1962.[1][2] Since then, the CAUTG has enabled faculty, graduate students, and supporters to advance German Studies in higher education. For example, since 1973 the CAUTG has administered the Canadian Summer School in Germany, which enables Canadian undergraduates to travel to Kassel to improve their German.[3] The association also helped run the now-defunct Werkstudentenprogramm (Work-Student Program), which allowed Canadian students to spend their summers working in Germany.[4][5] The CAUTG hosts an annual conference[6] as part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, where speakers present research related to German language, literature, culture, and pedagogy.[2][7] The association also publishes Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies through the University of Toronto Press.[8] In 2012, the CAUTG recommended that German departments at Canadian universities update their programs to comply with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.[9]
Seminar:
editFounded in 1965, Seminar publishes scholarship related to German-language material or German-cultural material,[7] and is supported by the CAUTG in conjunction with the German Section of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA).[10][11] Seminar has appeared quarterly since 1974,[10] and since the early 2000s has featured special theme issues that often alternate with general issues.
Seminar Editors:
edit- Robert Farquharson
- 1965-1970
- Michael S. Batts
- 1970-1980
- Heinz Wetzel
- 1980-1985
- Patrick O'Neill
- 1985-1990
- Rodney Symington
- 1990-2002
- Raleigh Whitinger
- 2002-2011
- Andrew Piper
- 2011-2016
- Karin Bauer
- 2016-2017
- Carrie Smith-Prei and Marcus Stock
- 2017-[12]
External links:
edit- CAUTG Website
- The CAUTG's Forum page, hosted by the Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences (German)
- Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Program overview of the CAUTG's most recent (2017) annual conference
- Seminar's page at the University of Toronto Press.
See also:
editReferences
edit- ^ Government of Canada. Termium Plus. [1]
- ^ a b Guse, Anette (2010). "Kanada: Deutschstudien im Wandel—von neuen Gegebenheiten zu Ansätzen einer Selbsterneuerung" [Canada: German Studies in Transition: From New Conditions to Self-Renewed Approaches]. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German (in German). 43 (1): 2–10.
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(help) - ^ "The Canadian Summer School in Germany". Queensu.ca. Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Queen's University. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
The Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG) offers university-level language and culture studies in Kassel, in a unique and intensive immersion program. The CSSG is organized under the auspices of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) and offers courses at the intermediate and advanced level. For a period of approximately 6 1/2 weeks, students participate in a full course (approximately 85 hours of classroom instruction) and in numerous additional activities.
- ^ "The Work-Student Program (Werkstudentenprogramm)". Queensu.ca. Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Queen's University. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
The Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG), in co-operation with the Zentrale Arbeitsvermittlung (ZAV) and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), organizes a program of work and travel in Germany from May until August each year. This program gives Canadian students looking for valuable work experience or want to improve their command of the German language the opportunity to work at summer jobs in Germany. Through this program students will find employment in the tourist, service, or manufacturing industries and in business, for an eight to twelve- week period, after which, if so arranged, they are free to travel.
- ^ Work and Travel in Germany. Berlin, Ottawa: Embassy of Canada (Berlin); Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Ottawa. 2008. p. 4 (PDF download).
- ^ Krumm, Hans-Jürgen; et al. (2010). Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache [German as a Foreign and Second Language] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 1707. ISBN 9783110205084.
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(help) - ^ Seminar's journal page hosted by the University of Toronto Press
- ^ Arnott, Stephanie; et al. (2017). "The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) in Canada: A Research Agenda". Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 20 (1): 31–54.
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(help) - ^ a b Gibbs, Marion E; Johnson, Sydney M, eds. (2002). Medieval German Literature. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 9781135956783.
- ^ Bauer, Karen, ed (May 2017). "About". Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 53 (2): Inside front cover.
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