(Posted 11-5-99)
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News Service Contact: Deborah Durkee, 336-334-5371

UNCG FOREIGN LANGUAGE SITES NAMED BEST OF THE WEB

GREENSBORO--Two foreign language Web sites developed by faculty members at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro have been chosen as two of the best educational resources on the Web.

Dr. Andreas Lixl's Web site of German language study tools and Dr. Karen Rauch's Web course on Spanish civilization received the honors from StudyWeb, an academic research Web site.

Lixl is a professor of German and head of the Department of German and Russian. Rauch is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages.

StudyWeb's goal is to help students and teachers harness the Internet by serving as a starting point for those who use the Internet for research. It categorizes and reviews over 28,000 educational and reference Web sites to link users directly to desired information.

The "German Internet Chronicles" Web site was developed as a team project between Lixl and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. It consists of 10 German Web units with exercises for elementary to advanced proficiency levels. Lixl's "German Internet Project," which has registered over 63,500 online visitors in the past two years, has also won a 1996 Magellan seal and a 1998 BBC Education Web Guide listing and is included in StudyWeb's list of links.

The "Spanish Civilization" site was developed by Rauch in collaboration with UNCG's Division of Continual Learning. The course covers Spanish civilization from prehistoric times to the present. The course component featured by StudyWeb is a companion site for the course which describes Spanish artists and artworks through the ages. It is featured the Fine Arts section.

Lixl joined UNCG's faculty in 1987. He specializes in 19th and 20th century German cultural history, German-Jewish history, exile studies and modern German literature.  He is the author of several books, including "Hindsight: Texts and Images After 1945," "Memoirs of German-Jewish Women 1900-1990" and "Ernst Toller and the Weimar Republic 1918-1933." Lixl received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rauch came to UNCG in 1996. Her areas of concentration include Enlightenment and Romantic literature of Spain; Colonial and Modern Latin American Literature; and feminist and psychoanalytic literary criticism. She is currently writing a book titled "Mothers and other Strangers: Spanish Romantic Discourse and the Maternal Imaginary." She received her master's degree from Duke University and her doctoral degree from the University of Virginia.
 The sites can be accessed at the following addreses:
 Lixl's site: www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/GIP/index.html
 Rauch's site: www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/klrauch/civ/art.htm
 StudyWeb: www.studyweb.com/.

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