Current Courses

Fall 2024

  • CLCS 6900-001
    Special Topics
  • GERM 304-001
    Tpcs - Lit & Culture
  • GERM 360-001
    German Conversation
  • GERM 3040-001
    Tpcs - Lit & Culture
  • GERM 3600-001
    German Conversation

Spring 2024

Professional Organizations

  • American Association of Teachers of German. 01/01/2018 - present. Position : Member Fundraising Committee.

Pedagogical Publications

  • “Sparking Interest in German through the Goethe / AATG--sponsored SPARK Program.” Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 55.1 (2022): 126-142. Co-authored with Connor Brown, Isabel Demschar, David Rellaford, Keaton Tanner, Alyssa Thomas . Paper published, 02/28/2022.
  • "Reading Johanna Spyri’s Heidi in the Beginning German Classroom. In: Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. 50.2 (2017): 151-161. Paper published, 10/30/2017.
  • “Strategies for Hybrid Course Design in Second Year German.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 48.2 (2015): 211-228. Paper published, 10/2015.
  • “‘Ich kam unter die Schweizer.’ Teaching Switzerland as a Multi-Ethnic Society.”. Paper published, 10/2012.
    http://www.academia.edu/4982506/_Ich_kam_unter_die...

Teaching Projects

  • German through SPARK. Project Lead: Karin Baumgartner. Goethe Institute 08/01/2020 - 06/30/2021. Total Budget: $1,500.00.
  • The Digital Humanities in the Language and Literature Classroom. Project Lead: Karin Baumgartner. Collaborators: Gema Guevara. University Teaching Grant 06/05/2016 - 06/30/2018. Total Budget: $4,266.00.
  • Hybrid German Business Course. Project Lead: Karin Baumgartner. Teaching and Technology Center (TACC) 07/01/2012 - 06/30/2013. Total Budget: $5,000.00.
  • German for Professional Purposes: A New Three-Semester Sequence. Project Lead: Karin Baumgartner. University Teaching Grant 07/11/2011 - 07/15/2011. Total Budget: $3,000.00.
  • German for Professional Purposes: A New Three-Semester Sequence. Project Lead: Karin Baumgartner. Utah Foreign Language Association Vitality Award 07/11/2011 - 07/15/2011. Total Budget: $689.00.
  • “Post-War to Post-Wall: Modern German Literature and Culture, 1945-present” . Project Lead: Karin Baumgartner. Technology Assisted Curriculum Center Fellowship 08/24/2009 - 12/07/2009. Total Budget: $5,000.00.
  • Modern Switzerland: From Multiculturalism to Cultural Hybridity. Project Lead: Karin Baumgartner. University Teaching Grant 06/07/2009 - 06/19/2009. Total Budget: $3,000.00.