I utilized my 2018 CWCTP grant to partially fund my enrollment in GRMN 1500 during the Summer A Session at CU.听 This course, taught by Doctor Berit Jany of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, is intended to introduce graduate students to German grammatical concepts, and to help train them to be capable of reading German documents related to their discipline or field.听 My experience in the course was a very positive one, and the skills I learned from the textbook exercises and Professor Jany鈥檚 instruction have allowed me to begin translating and analyzing German language documents critical to my dissertation project.听 These have included a number of German propaganda pamphlets from the era of the First World War outlining postwar German imperialist claims in Africa and the South Pacific Islands, as well as propaganda documents refuting British charges that the Germans had committed atrocities as colonial rulers.听
I am grateful for the support provided by the CWCTP which has allowed me to pursue this interesting avenue of research.听
-Travis R May, Ph.D. Candidate, CU Department of History