Norbert Hedderich (Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana) is an Associate Professor of German. He completed his doctoral work in the area of foreign language methodology with minors German linguistics and educational technology in 1991. Since then he has been teaching at the University of Rhode Island. He teaches all levels of undergraduate German courses, including beginning and intermediate courses. At the upper levels he has been teaching courses on the history and present-day varieties of the German language as well as a course on business German. He also is serving as President of the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)

His scholarly activities focus on the areas of Language for Special Purposes, educational technology and the teaching of German. He has published articles in Die Unterrichtspraxis, The Journal of Language for International Business (JOLIB at Thunderbird), and Global Business Languages, has published numerous book reviews and has served as manuscript reviewer for the Modern Language Journal. Inspired by the University of Rhode Island's extensive internship and study abroad program in Germany both of which are part of the International Engineering Program and the Business Language Program, he is now working on intercultural communication and training issues.

He spends his summers as Director of the Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik, a German immersion program, offered annually at the University of Rhode Island.

Updated: 10/07/2003