Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor
	Associate Professor jvtaylor@facstaff.wisc.edu on leave '02-'03 Department of German University of Wisconsin Madison, WISCONSIN 53706

Registration news
about fall 2003 courses:
We expect to be able to offer two sections of First Semester Dutch, one section of Third Semester Dutch, and a Dutch Culture Course (The Low Countries: A Culture of High Water), Please contactt us with any questions or problems you may encounter while registering for any Dutch course!

New Topic in Dutch Culture course for Fall '03-'04:
The Low Countries: A Culture of High Water German 245, 445, or 645   Professor Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor will bring back new materials for this brand-new course from her year of research in the Netherlands ('02-'03)

scholarly opportunities:

• Are you a member of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies yet?
• See the website at the New Netherlands Project.

learning opportunities at the U.W.-Madison:

• Consider studying Dutch
• Consider our new Dutch Culture course on Dutch Literature.
• See a brief description of the culture course from Fall 2000 :"Dutch Tolerance."
• Opstand, Reformatie, Overvloed: De Gouden Eeuw was the culture course in Fall 2001
• The century is over. The Netherlands and Belgium went from colonial empires to integral members of the New Europe.In Spring Semester 2001, we studied Dutch Literature in the 20th Century.
• Or visit the web site for Third-Semester Dutch. Watch for updates ...
• Study Abroad in the Netherlands (Universiteit Utrecht)
• Click here for WebCT at the U.W.-Madison (including web-based learning for Dutch courses)

services:

• The Dutch program at the U.W.-Madison is a testing facility for the Certificaat Nederlands als Vreemde Taal. The exam is administered around the world once a year in May. Contact us by mid-February if you wish to register for the exam in a given year.

other learning opportunities:

• Summer Dutch Institute at the University of Minnesota.

information about recent conferences:

• Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies (U. Wisconsin-Madison, June 1998)
• Look at the most recent ICNS conference program (U. MI, June 2002)
• The Spinoza and Judaism conference held October 7-9, 1999, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• The Culture of Exchange: Real and Imagined Markets in the Low Countries 1500-1800; conference held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 4-7,1999

surf:

• If you're looking for Dutch stuff on the web, here's a good place to start.
• If you're looking for German stuff on the web, here are some useful connections.

my book:

• Didn't the press do a lovely job? To see the cover, click here.

 

 

This page last updated

November 9, 2001.

© Jolanda V. Taylor, 1999, 2000, 2001.