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 Walter
von Reinhart
(Ph.D., Brown University)
Office: 208 Lippitt Hall
Tel: (401) 874 - 4818
Fax (401) 874 - 4694
E-Mail: waltaire@uri.edu
Office hours in Lippitt 208:
M, W, F: 8.45 - 9.45 (just walk in)
W, F: 11.00 - 12.40 (sign up in Lippitt 208)
In Roosevelt 113 B:
Th 9.00 - 12.00 (make appointment through E-Campus)
Walter von Reinhart is
an Associate Professor of German and Associate Director and Scholarship
Coordinator for the URI Honors
Program. He is also the Academic Advisor for the German
International
Engineering Program. He has developed and taught specialized
language courses with technical content for engineering students.
His research interests in applied language pedagogy focus on German
for science and technology and business German. His literary research
concentrates on utopian and apocalyptic texts and on Exilliteratur.
Dr. von Reinhart teaches specialized language courses for engineering
students and general language courses at all levels. He also teaches
a German culture course based almost exclusively on popular German
songs from the 1960's to the 1990's. In addition, Dr. von
Reinhart is the Academic Adviser for IEP German Majors.
At the
Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik, Dr. von Reinhart
teaches the second-year language course and business German. He also directs the Deutschband,
a German-language rockband that performs annually at the closing night of the Sommerschule.
Click here for a copy of Dr.
von Reinhart's original job description.
Publications
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"German for Science and Technology: Teaching
Strategies for Beginning Students." Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching
German 34.2 (Fall 2001): 119-132.
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"The Long Silence: A Moment of Hope in
Heiner Müller's Macbeth." Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und
Geschichte 24.1 (1998): 71-85.
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"Zipp-Zapp." Teaching Ideas IV:
A Collection of Successful Classroom Strategies. Ed. James W. Scott. Cherry Hill:
American Association of Teachers of German, 1997. 3.
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"Utopie und Utopiekritik in Stefan
Heyms Roman Schwarzenberg." Zeitgenössische Utopientwürfe in Literatur und
Gesellschaft. Ed. Rolf Jucker. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 41.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. 359 - 377.
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"Connecting with the World: Using the
World Wide Web in the Foreign Language Classroom." Schatzkammer der deutschen
Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte 22.1 (1996): 37-50. (Refereed journal).
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"A Company of Their Own: A Case-Study
Approach to Teaching Business German." Handbook for German in Business and
Technology. Ed. Bettina Cothran. Cherry Hill: American Association of Teachers of
German, 1994. 110-133.
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"The Changing Purpose of Language
Instruction." Language for a Multicultural World in Transition. Ed. Heidi
Byrnes. Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Reports 1992. New York:
National Textbook Co., 1992. 123-169. [With Kandace Einbeck and John Grandin].
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