Contact me at: glatz at mscd.edu
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After receiving an Honors B.A. in German from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, Dr. Glatz pursued graduate study in German Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. He was awarded the M.A. in 1988 and the Ph.D. in 1995. His dissertation was directed by Manfred Keune.He also studied at the universities of Munich (Junior Year in Munich Program 1982-83), Kiel (Penn State Exchange Fellowship 1986-87), Hamburg and Berlin (German Academic Exchange Fellowship 1992-93).
In addition to teaching German language and culture courses, his interests include intercultural communications, German phonetics and dialects, German literature since the Enlightenment, German civilization, computer-assisted language learning, and German business culture. He enjoys combining literature with computer-aided materials in the Internet, such as this rendering of Erlkönig by Goethe.
Research Interests:
Dr. Glatz' current research involves the writings of Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Heinrich Böll (1917-1985), about whom he maintains one of the best websites in the WWW with an online bibliographic database. He published a major study on the topics of history, crime, violence and the victim in both Böll's nonfictional and fictional works: Heinrich Böll als Moralist [Heinrich Böll as Moralist], available from Peter Lang, Publishing.He has also presented papers recently on the role of computer-mediated instruction and materials, technology in teacher training, and Business German and the WWW. He contributed to the important anthology on foreign language instruction, Pedagogy of Language Learning in Higher Education: An Introduction.
His on-line Curriculum Vitae is also available.
Creative Projects:
He has produced and directed a documentary film on the small city of Staufen in Breisgau, currently available online. He is interested in multimedia development and computer-assisted language learning, including Podcasting, and has made various reading and listening materials for his German Cultural History. He is working on an Interactive German Exercises language learning project, besides the ongoing Germania Project.
Service:
Dr. Glatz has served on the MSCD MetroConnect / Web Functional Review Committee since its inception, and also served as Chair of the MSCD Technology Initiatives Committee from August, 2005 to July, 2007. He served on the MSCD Commencement Committee and created and has maintained the Honor Societies Homepage for Metro State, as part of his service on it. He has been an Assistant Faculty Marshall at almost all commencements since May, 1997.He serves often on the Faculty Senate, where he has been Chair of the Instructional Resources Committee. He was a Faculty Fellow from August, 1999 to May, 2002. The yearly Holocaust Awareness Week is an important involvement for him.
He is a Faculty Advisor for Phi Sigma Iota, the National Foreign Language Honor Society, and Delta Phi Alpha, the National German Language Honor Society.
He is also involved with the Race for the Cure and Habitat for Humanity. He has been the Webmaster for the Department of Modern Languages since Fall 1996.
A former Chapter President and current Webmaster of the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), he is a Life Member of this national association.Active in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Small Undergraduate German Programs Special Interest Group of ACTFL, he served in the latter as Chair and remains the Webmaster.
A former voting Board Member of the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers (CCFLT), he served also from May, 2000 to May, 2005 as the Webmaster, a non-voting member of the Board.
He serves as a member of the National Advisory Council for the JYM Program in Munich since 2004, and is also active in the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the German Studies Association (GSA), and the Modern Language Association (MLA).
Awards:
For the 2007-08 academic year, Dr. Glatz was awarded sabbatical leave and had the honor of being a Fulbright Senior lecturer and researcher in Siegen, Germany. More information is in this @Metro article.
He was awarded a President's Performance Stipend for Teaching Excellence in August 2004. Based on the recommendation of the Chair of the Department, the Dean of the School, and the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, these one-time awards recognized outstanding performance in teaching during the 2003-2004 academic year.As a recipient of a Bright Ideas / Best Practices Teaching Award at the 2002 Metro State Annual Fall Conference, when his submission on guiding students to create "Cybertrips to German-speaking countries" was one of four judged by faculty peers to be exceptional, he received both recognition at this conference and a professional development stipend in honor of this achievement.
He was also awarded an Excellence in Academic Advising Award in May, 2000.
Personal:
He is darn lucky to married to Jacque and is the often exhausted father of Christian and Alexandra. His father, Charles L. Glatz (born 1907), served as a Captain, U.S. Army Medical Corps, in the Second World War and participated in the military government of the Allied Occupation after the war ended. His paternal grandparents, Josefine (born 1883) and Karl Glatz (born 1876), arrived at Ellis Island in 1906. When not playing with his children, he engages in extensive reading and supports too many organizations.
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Please send your suggestions or comments to him at: glatz at mscd.edu .
Last Modified: May 8, 2008.
