Laura Franz

Laura Franz

Adjunct Instructor in German
Department
Modern Language
Office hours

Fall Semester: 
MWF, 12 - 12.45pm & Tues 9-10.45 in my office

Spring Semester:  
MTWF, 10am - 12pm, in my office

Both semesters:  Friday 1-3pm at Mojava & by specific appointment via Zoom.  

If you're one of my students, all the info regarding my contact numbers, calendly page and Zoom meeting room is on our Canvas site.

German table:  Fridays,  3 - 4pm @ Mojava

Email
lfranz [at] NebrWesleyan.edu
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"Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt." Ludwig Wittgenstein
(The limits of my language determine the limits of my world.)

Learning German will open your world, broaden your perspective and enrich your life ... for life.

Background

Grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska

  • attended Sheridan School, Irving Middle School & Lincoln Southeast High School

Worked at 

  • Citibank, New York, NY. Dept of Financial Institutions, Europe
  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
  • Raiffeisenbank, Vienna, Austria (Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity in Eastern Europe)
Education

M.A. German Language & Literature and Foreign Language Pedagogy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • included Secondary Teaching Certification


B.A. French Language & Literature and Art History, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 

  • Junior Year Abroad at the University of Paris-Sorbonne
  • graduated Phi Beta Kappa & summa cum laude.
Courses taught

NWU: German Stages I, II, III & IV, and ...

  • German:  Adolescent Literature (Pünktchen & Anton; Damals war es Friedrich; Momo), 
  • German:  Youth in 20th century German history (Elisabeth & Rudolf; All Quiet on the Western Front; The White Rose Resistance; Opera:  Fidelio), 
  • German:  Immigration to Germany (Almanya, Im Lande der Schokolade und Bananen, Zafira:  ein Mädchen aus Syrien, Mutti auf der Flucht!)
  • Archway Seminar: Coffee, Cake and the Kiss (Vienna at the Dawn of the 20th century)
  • Archway Seminar:  Profiles in Courage (Russian Resistance to Government -isms)

UNL: German 101, 102, 201, 202, 204

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