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A Walk on the Dramatic Side: A Tradition of German Cabaret at UCB

May 6, 2025

While advanced German and the movie The Breakfast Club might not bear an obvious connection, the two are linked in senior Ella Dittmann’s mind. She is one of eight students who participated in the German Kabarett (Cabaret) course this spring, and for her the end of the semester is bittersweet. ”We have people from all over—we’ve got people from STEM, the humanities, actors and people who have never acted before,” she said. “It’s weird, I feel like I’ve never felt this in a class.”

Started by Nikolaus Euba in 2004, for some...

Language Instructors Open their Doors in Open Classroom Week

April 10, 2025

This spring brought a new initiative supported by the Berkeley Language Center. From March 10 to 14th, instructors representing 14 languages opened their classrooms to welcome more than 25 graduate students and fellow language instructors interested in expanding their pedagogical toolboxes. The brainchild of Daniel Hoffmann, a lecturer and First-Year Language Coordinator in French who received a UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award in 2023, the Open Classroom Week aimed to facilitate creative exchange and community among both current and prospective language...