The university of Duisburg-Essen now offers a bilingual field of study. A master of science in business informations systems (“Wirtschaftsinformatik”) will be offered from winter term on.
Due to a press release the English spoken lessen will be 30 to 80 percent. The lesson will be hold by native speakers or people with long term experience in English language surroundings.
Via the website of the British German Club in Duisburg, I found a hint to an English theater group at the university of Duisburg. The university is now the university of Duisburg and Essen after they joined. The group is already nearly 30 years old and consists of students and aluminis. It calls itstelf the “Duisburg University Englsih Thespians”
Pamela told me, Canada-Day is July 1st. Well, at the Ruhr University in Bochum it July 3rd. Looking for the English theater group “The Edna’s” I just found a conference about history and politics of Canda: “Canada-Day 2009: The Other America. Canada in historical and political reasearch” is the (tranlated) title of a conference on Wednesday, 3rd of July.
Looking at the program there seem to be some speechs and talks in English language. I wonder a little bit that they didn’t offer an English translation for the conference. I wonder even more because it is organized by the chair for history of North America.
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/canada-day/
3. Juli 2009, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Veranstaltungszentrum; Ebene 01, Tagungsraum 2
Das andere Amerika.
Kanada in der historischen und
politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung
I’m still on holiday in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, but I found an interesting note in today’s edition of WAZ Bochum – the local paper of the regional newspaper: Someone called Eva Masuch is going to found a Toastmaster Club in Bochum. The first meeting shall take place in the “Haus der Freunde” (house of the friends… of the Ruhr-University Bochum) next Monday, April 20th at (the articel doesn’t say).
A toastmaster is the person (man or woman) offering toast at the a dinner or some other formal meals, e.g. a wedding. There is an international organization that tries to teach people how to give public speeches. I think, it’s mainly an anglo-saxon thing. Nevertheless, the German toastmaster movement – with clubs in Berlin, Munich – focusses on giving speaches not in German but in plain English. The groups seems to aim at teaching people to speek freely – in English, with not more than school English. That sound interesting to me. I will try to have a look at the group and the way they work. Due to the newspaper article, everybody gets a manual.
The weekly appointment is the same time/day of the week the English natives speaker meetings take place in Game and Grunewald in Bochum. Well, “native speaker” are a minority there but working language is English.
According to the WAZ you shall contact the organizer:
“Infos gibt’s per Email (toastmasters-bochum@email.de) oder unter Tel. 0234/32-29368 (tagsüber).” (WaZ, 16.04.2009)
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