Silke Bugge, M.Ed.

Silke Bugge is a Lecturer of German. She was awarded a Master degree in German Language and Literature and English Language and Literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a concentration in education. Her Master thesis was focused on teaching world literature while presenting approaches to answering the question how world literature can and should be taught in the public school setting.

She has gained a lot of experience in teaching English and German as a foreign language on different levels and for different age groups.

She specializes on language acquisition in a communicative setting connecting the lessons to universal and global cultural issues.

She has joined Sam Houston State University in August 2016 and has taught Elementary and Intermediate German and has served as an advisor for the German Club.

Silke Bugge is a specialist of German Studies who focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century language and culture; which is manifested in her research interest in the two linguists Ernst Bloch and Victor Klemperer.

She is currently working on the ongoing cultural impact of the 1920’s in Berlin.

She is also committed to research in pedagogy and multiculturalism in German textbooks.

She has joined Sam Houston State University in August 2016 and has taught Elementary and Intermediate German and served as an advisor for the German Club.

She is a member of the Texas Foreign Language Association, the Delta Phi Alpha (German National Honors Society) and also taught courses at the German Institute of the Southwest and at the Houston Sängerbund.

Research Interests
Das Lied – how does the musical format of a song reflect social issues throughout Germany’s history

Ernst Bloch- abstract and concrete utopia-is there hope for the world today?

LTI-Victor Klemperer-language as historical artifact

East Germany – cultural and individual perspectives

Second Language Acquisition

Recent Presentations

An attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall – October 2016
Delta Phi Alpha German National Honors Society Symposium – April 2017
From East Germany to East Texas – SHSU German Club- December 2017

List of courses regularly taught at SHSU

German 1411: Elementary German I
German 1412: Elementary German II
German 2311: Intermediate German I