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URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/gsll-our-research-symposium/
SUMMARY:GSLL OUR Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Students and faculty will meet for presentations about student 
 research in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures.\n
 \nThis is an in-person\, CLE Credit event.\n\nThe study of Germanic Langua
 ges and Literatures has enjoyed a long tradition of excellence at the Univ
 ersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Instruction in German first becam
 e a permanent part of the curriculum in 1857\, when the first Professor of
  Modern Languages joined the UNC faculty. In 1901\, the first Professor of
  Germanic Languages and Literatures was appointed\, soon to be assisted by
  others. By 1915\, more students were studying German at Carolina than any
  other modern language. Although that preeminence in enrollments waned by 
 1918\, the department’s activities continued to expand. By the 1930s the
  former Department of Germanic Languages offered M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. T
 he first M.A. thesis was produced in the Department in 1931 and the first 
 Ph.D. was awarded in 1936. In the summer of 1962 the department took up re
 sidence in what was then a brand-new Dey Hall\, moving into its current qu
 arters after the 1969 expansion of the building.  In August 2008\, the Dep
 artment entered into a permanent collaboration with Duke University’s De
 partment of German Studies to create the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in
  German Studies\, the first public-private partnership of its kind in the 
 US.\n\nThe former Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures\, one of 
 the oldest programs in Slavic in the southern United States\, began with I
 ndo-European linguist George Lane\, who provided Russian instruction on an
  adhoc basis during World War II\, when Carolina was serving as a Navy tra
 ining center. Professor Walter Arndt introduced formal Russian courses at 
 Chapel Hill around 1960\, as part of the curriculum in what was then the D
 epartment of Linguistics and Oriental Languages. UNC-Chapel Hill first off
 ered courses leading to a graduate degree in Slavic in 1965. When the Depa
 rtment was established as a separate unit\, it was set up specifically to 
 include not just Russian\, but all the major Slavic languages and literatu
 res. To this day\, the mission of Carolina’s Slavic faculty reamins incl
 usive and wide-ranging. As before\, Slavic research includes versification
 \, literary translation\, literary critical theory\, literature and Orthod
 ox theology\, gender studies\, literature and the Holocaust\, performing a
 rts studies\, and émigré culture.\n\nBeginning on July 1\, 2011\, German
 ic and Slavic merged to form a single unit\, GSLL\, a larger department wi
 th a more streamlined administrative structure. With over 100 undergraduat
 e majors and minors\, and currently roughly 35 graduate students\, GSLL ma
 kes a central contribution to the work of the College of Arts and Sciences
 .  Every year\, more than 1\,300 students at Carolina take courses offered
  by our unit.  Our 17 permanent faculty members contribute to the liberal 
 education of Carolina undergraduates by training them in the vital skills 
 of analysis\, interpretation and logical argument\, while at the same time
  introducing them to the languages\, literatures and cultures of central\,
  northern\, and eastern Europe and northern Asia. At the graduate level we
  provide an academic environment that encourages interdisciplinary work an
 d innovative scholarship while placing particular importance on the role o
 f teaching.\n\nLocated in North Carolina’s Triangle area\, a flourishing
  center for education and business in the Southeast\, GSLL also provides i
 ts students access to courses and libraries at nearby universities.
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CATEGORIES:CLE Credit Event,College of Arts and Sciences,Department of
 Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures,In-person Event
LOCATION:Dey Hall\, Toy Lounge\, 200 South Rd\, Chapel Hill\, North Carolin
 a\, 27514\, United States
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