The Max Kade Institute partners with the German program in the German, Nordic, and Slavic+ Department at UW–Madison to support undergraduate and graduate courses related to language, literature, culture, and history. Students draw on materials from the MKI library and archives—including the North American German Dialect Archive—to deepen their understanding of America’s multicultural and multilingual heritage and to learn about the significance of German as a global language. Students are given opportunities to conduct original research on topics that are central or complementary to their broader courses of study.