Sunday, October 5, 2008
Hail to the Victors!
As avid sports fans already know, the University of Michigan ended its relationship with the Nike company, and most of its uniforms, shoes, and some of its sporting equipment are now provided by the Adidas company which is - you guessed it! - a German company.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Studying at the University of Michigan
Surveying the different departments at the U of M, we find the following:
Chemistry: although the university's general requirement that a student take four semesters of a foreign language can be satisfied by studying any language, those who are majoring in chemistry take German, according to the department's web site.
Biology: undergraduates who want to go on and do graduate work in Biology are told to take either German, Russian, or French.
Engineering: working with the university's Center for European Studies, and with the university's European Union Center, the school of engineering a two-semester series of courses: German for Engineering I and German for Engineering II. Interestingly, there is no "Spanish for Engineering"!
Chemistry: although the university's general requirement that a student take four semesters of a foreign language can be satisfied by studying any language, those who are majoring in chemistry take German, according to the department's web site.
Biology: undergraduates who want to go on and do graduate work in Biology are told to take either German, Russian, or French.
Engineering: working with the university's Center for European Studies, and with the university's European Union Center, the school of engineering a two-semester series of courses: German for Engineering I and German for Engineering II. Interestingly, there is no "Spanish for Engineering"!
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