Jutta Schmiers-Heller

Jutta is such a delightful and kind professor! She really cares about her students and trust that your effort in this class will be rewarded. Ich habe viel Deutsch delernt!

Content: Introduction to Berlin, but then quickly moved on to more about German culture. Wrote a few essays, did some pre-professional work such as creating a cover letter (anschreiben), CV (lebenslauf), and overall application process for an internship (praktikum). Super interesting and fun. Jutta is amazing --- she is so funny and caring and overall a great professor. She is lenient, but also makes sure that you learn all the content. Be engaged and this will be your favorite German class at Columbia.

She's my goat, teaches well, spreads out assignments pretty fairly and cares a lot about her students. I struggled with the grammar for a bit but managed to learn a lot from this class. This class is centred around Berlin so great if you want to do the study abroad program.

Jutta is an amazing professor. She creates an excellent classroom environment and is accommodating of everyone's skill level in German. Highly recommend.

Love of my life. I adore Jutta — her German class made this otherwise intolerable semester much brighter. Such an amazing, kind and genuinely interesting to learn from Professor. One of the best I have ever had at Columbia.

I absolutely adore Jutta. She is extremely understanding and helpful and creates an environment in her class that made me actively want to attend. As far as grading goes, I never felt as if I received an unfair grade on any assignment or test. Her office hours are flexible- if I couldn't make one she would let me set up a one on one. She replies quickly to emails and is very responsive when it comes to any issues you may be having. I have already signed up for her E2 section because I enjoyed this one so much. Also nice that there's no friday classes.

I really love her teaching! TBH her class pace in the beginning is a bit too fast. It's a little overwhelming, but as long as you did what she asked for, you are fine. It's an A for sure. All her assignments are clear and straightforward. There's no way that you are confused or don't know how to do the assignments. She's also very very very nice. She cares about students, understanding students' internet issues, family issues, or whatever proper reason not attending the session. Just email her and explain. She's super chill.

Jutta is an absolutely phenomenal professor. I've always had a hard time learning new languages, but nonetheless, had to take this class to fill a requirement. However, Jutta made the class very lovable. She always cared for every student and was always super understanding. Due to COVID and the semester online, she was very understanding and never gave us very formal assessments (aka timed/graded quizzes or tests.) We had quite a few essays and projects, but you get a revision and can therefore quite easily get A+ on them. She made German fun and interesting, I 100% recommend it!

Jutta is the love of my life. As a foreign language learner, who has had his fair share of foreign language teachers, she is by far the best I have ever had. She is not only incredibly knowledgeable about German, but is amazing at teaching you it. She does not correct every mistake you make in order to foster a desire to speak, while making sure you are remembering key grammar points. She has convinced me to seek a concentration in German. She prepares you very well for all of the tests and is a generous grader. The regular and constant structure of the course is not only very German, but very nice because you always know what happens.

Firstly the accelerated Beginners German I & II was amazing. In five weeks Jutta was able to present all of the information in an intelligible and structured manner that facilitated an excellent learning environment. Her class was laborious and enjoyable. Because of the abbreviated time frame the work load was strenuous to say the least. We had roughly 2/1 homework to class time ratio, however the in class experience made the nightly work far easier and manageable. I highly suggest Jutta as a professor, as she is open, fun and more than willing to go the extra mile to assist in and out of class. Wonderful professor and educator!