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UNE students win study trip to Germany

December 02, 2004

ebrazier thumb.jpgTwo students of German at the University of New England have won scholarships to study in Germany early next year.

UNE’s Elizabeth Brazier (pictured) and Chris O’Neill are among students from Australian, New Zealand and Brazilian universities who will travel to Germany for the six-week intensive language and culture course beginning on the 3rd of January.

Chris, from Winmalee in NSW, who is studying (on campus) for a Bachelor of Languages degree, will do the course at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, in the south of Germany. Elizabeth, from Faulconbridge in NSW, is studying by distance education for a Bachelor of Arts degree, and will travel to the University of Leipzig in Germany’s east. Dr Linda Hess-Liechti, a Senior Lecturer in German at UNE, said: “Both universities have excellent reputations and have a special relationship with UNE, as quite a few of our recent prac teachers have come from Freiburg and Leipzig.”

The scholarships, awarded each year by the German Academic Exchange Service, are worth more than $3,000 each. Several UNE students have received them over the past decade.

Chris said he was hoping to improve his reading, writing and speaking skills as much as possible, and was looking forward to learning more about German culture, visiting historic cities and monuments, and experiencing the German winter. His dream was to live and work in Germany at some time in the future.

“Experiencing the art and music of famous cities such as Leipzig, Potsdam and Dresden will definitely be a high point,” Elizabeth said. “I hope to improve my German skills significantly, while increasing my awareness of German culture. Although I am majoring in Classical Languages, I have continued with German throughout my degree because I found it so challenging and so much fun. I have also discovered how important a knowledge of German is in the field of Classics because there is an abundance of scholarly material in that language.”


Media contact: Dr Linda Hess-Liechti, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, UNE, Armidale (02) 6773 3068 or Jim Scanlan, Public Relations, UNE, Armidale (02) 6773 3049.

Photographs of Chris O’Neill and Elizabeth Brazier are available. Please contact Jim Scanlan on (02) 6773 3049.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at December 2, 2004 02:58 PM