Kate Menlove and Dr. Michelle James, German & Russian My ORCA project centered on the book Das jüdische Weib, written by Nahida Ruth Lazarus in 1896. This book explores the contributions that Jewish women have made to the world and celebrates their strength and culture. While Lazarus was researching and studying to write this book, […]
Russian For Professional Purposes Russ 399R Academic Internship
Tyler Larsen, Jennifer Bown, Russian Department Introduction “Russian for Professional Purposes” was a project to design a curriculum that would teach students a way to independently specialize their Russian. The course directed students to choose a professional field and then do activities. Activities built vocabulary and confidence in communicating about and for the profession. During the […]
Russian for Professional Purposes: An Experiential and Instruction Based Approach to Advanced Competency Within the Russian Language
David Joseph, Dr. Tony Brown and Dr. Yekaterina Jordan, Department of German and Russian Introduction Originally, this project aimed to increase Russian language fluency in the legal domain by developing an advanced-level course titled “Russian for Professional Purposes.” As progress in course development proceeded, it was moved into conceptualizing the project as a whole and then […]
Eye Movements in Second Language Reading of Russian
Hunter Hill, Steven G. Luke, PhD and Jennifer M. Brown PhD, German and Russian Introduction When we read, our eye movements are influenced by our knowledge of the language we are reading. When reading in a second language in which we have less experience, it is likely that our under-developed language skills will have less […]
Lebensborn Mothers: The Women of the Thousand-Year Reich
Zachary Herzog and Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, German and Russian There have been few, if any, events during the 20th century that have drawn more interest from philosophers and historians than those leading up to and culminating in the Second World War. Consequently, much has been said already concerning the aims of the Third Reich. Yet, […]
Linguistic integration: A comparison of Spanish speakers in Austria and Germany with those in the U.S.
Nicole Gomez Bravo and Laura Smith, German Introduction This study examined factors influencing the linguistic and cultural integration of Spanish-speaking immigrants into the local language and culture. Immigration and the integration of recent immigrants is an increasingly polarizing topic worldwide, with many citizens complaining that new immigrants fail to learn the target language of their […]
We Don’t Need Another Hero: Historiography and the Sophie Digital Library’s Science and Technology collection
Michael Evans and Robert McFarland, Humanities Introduction The Sophie Digital Library is an online library and resource center for works produced by German-speaking women. These works are focused on the publications from pre- 17th century through the early 20th century. Unfortunately, the group of women in Germany living during this time faced many challenges and […]
Bridging Two Fields: Game Theory and Crime and Punishment
Sarah Matthews and Faculty Mentor: Mark Purves, Russian Introduction Many scholars have drawn on the tools of Game Theory to explore the Humanities as a whole, but have failed to make sense of the great contributions of Russian literature. In fact, the only two articles dealing with Russian literary works and Game Theory were made […]
Hildegard von Bingen: A Work of Virtues
Gina Fowler and Faculty Mentor: Rob McFarland, Department of German Researchers seeking historical primary and secondary source documents in a foreign language must often overcome the challenge of finding those resources without actually travelling to their country of origin. The Sophie Digital Library is an online database that was created by BYU faculty to address […]
Red Vienna Sourcebook
Blake Taylor and Dr. Rob McFarland, German and Russian Department Under the guidance of my ORCA mentor, Professor Rob McFarland, I teamed up this semester with an international working group that is producing the Red Vienna Sourcebook, a reference work that will help North American scholars to supplement their knowledge of German-speaking Europe in the […]
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