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Carlee Arnett, German Section Head
University of California/Davis
clarnett@ucdavis.edu

AAUSC at ACTFL:  The AAUSC will hold a session sponsored by AATG at ACTFL 2010 in Boston.  The session is entitled “Content Based Instruction in Intermediate German”.  The session will have three papers. “Through the Lens of the Media” by Alexandra Hagen (University of Cincinatti), “Content Based Teaching in the Second Year:  A Comparison of Two Approaches” by Tina Boyer (Wake Forest University) and “Teaching Momo” by Verena Hutter (University of California/Davis).

AAUSC Fall Meeting:  The fall German AAUSC meeting, to be held in conjunction with the CIC German Chairs meeting, will be Nov. 5th in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  We would like to invite papers for 20-minute presentations on the topic of the undergraduate curriculum.  Building on the articles by Walther and Maxim in the Fall 2009 issue of Unterrichtspraxis, we would like to focus on the undergraduate curriculum as it is currently taught, i.e. the major/minor, requirements, electives, content/language skills, language of instruction, etc.   Please send a 500 word abstract to Carlee Arnett (clarnett@ucdavis.edu) and Beth Kautz (kautz001@umn.edu) by September 1.

            The president of AAUSC, Stacey Katz (French, Harvard University), has successfully applied to move the AAUSC general session to the MLA.  The annual Executive Board Meeting and Business Meeting will remain at ACTFL.  These changes will begin in 2010 (ACTFL)/2011 (MLA).