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Professor Schueller cares about her students and wants them to do well. She provides helpful feedback and grades fairly. During finals/midterms she would bring us treats, which is so sweet. Overall a great professor and a great class, although the workload can be quite challenging, especially towards the end of the semester.Rate My Professors ↗
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Prof. Schueller is just SO sweet, empathetic, kind, and caring, and it's reflected throughout the course. She's flexible with deadlines, great at answering questions, and makes the class quite enjoyable. Not an abundance of homework but a few large projects/papers. Very doable. Go to class, participate, do the work, and you're golden.Rate My Professors ↗
Prof Schueller is excellent just like the other UW German professors. The final book is difficult and the test can be hard so be prepared for that. The homework assignments were also tedious (yet easily graded) and took way longer than they should have. Attendance is mandatory and is worth around 15% of your final grade.Rate My Professors ↗
Super caring and understanding prof! Assignments weren't difficult, but often took a lot of time and reading. Final wasn't hard as long as you paid attention in class and read the book. Excellent feedback and grading was fairly easy, but many of the assignments were due on Saturdays and the lectures could be boring.Rate My Professors ↗
Mid-semester assignment worth 9% of the grade was left ungraded for a month and a half. On the final day of semester, I was notified that I missed a portion, and my grade dropped from an A to a B. Never had any clue that I had missed a portion and was given no chance to submit the part for some level of credit. Also awful at responding to emails.Rate My Professors ↗
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First Semester German teaches proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing German within a cultural context.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.50 GPA, 75.8% A/AB (n=33 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.63 GPA, 81.4% A/AB (n=59 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.40 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=21 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026Second Semester German emphasizes proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing German within a cultural context.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.28 GPA, 68.5% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.07 GPA, 51.9% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.53 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=45 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026Third Semester German focuses on a four-skills approach using authentic texts, recordings, and images.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.34 GPA, 68.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.78 GPA, 88.7% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.10 GPA, 52.4% A/AB (n=21 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026GERMAN 204 is the fourth semester of German, focusing on a four-skills approach using authentic texts, recordings, and images.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.65 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026GERMAN 258 teaches reading skills through literary and cultural texts from 1800 to the present, emphasizing close reading, textual analysis, and historical context.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Jeanne Schueller is described as friendly, helpful, and open, with an effort to make German culture engaging. However, her attempts to spark discussion often fail, resulting in awkward silence. Reviewers also note that homework assignments are frequently unnecessarily long, though tests are considered easy for attentive students.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026GERMAN 401 is a first-semester German course for graduate students focusing on language proficiency and cultural communication.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 2.50 GPA, 0.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleGERMAN 402 is a second-semester German course for graduate students focusing on language proficiency and cultural communication.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.83 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleGERMAN 403 is a third-semester graduate course focusing on four-skills proficiency through authentic texts, grammar review, and vocabulary expansion.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleGERMAN 404 is a fourth-semester German course for graduate students focusing on four-skills proficiency using authentic texts and recordings.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleGERMAN 720 focuses on German-language specific instruction, emphasizing teaching methods and developing an identity as a language instructor.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.91 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).
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Fall 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleGERMAN 722 covers the theory and methodology of teaching German as a second language.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.75 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).
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Fall 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleGERMAN 991 is an independent research course in linguistics and Germanic philology under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 101 | First Semester German |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 102 | Second Semester German |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 203 | Third Semester German |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 204 | Fourth Semester German |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 258 | Intermediate German-reading |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 401 | First-semester German for Graduate Students |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 402 | Second-semester German for Graduate Students |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 403 | Third-semester German for Graduate Students |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 404 | Fourth-semester German for Graduate Students |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 720 | College Teaching of German |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 722 | Theory of Teaching German |
| Fall 2026 | GERMAN 991 | Individual Research Linguistics and Germanic Philology |
Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.
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