ABSTRACT
This chapter responds to the increasing expectation that instructors are required to endow students with pragmatic, career-related information. Since roughly 25% of current students major in the sciences, the authors offer an introduction to ways in which an integration of STEM can assist in student retention, tap into intrinsic motivation, inspire feelings of empowerment and success and prepare students for future careers. In an effort to appeal to students with STEM majors, Etzler and Stigter attended the AATG MINT-Fortbildungsseminar (2017 and 2018) in Leipzig on strategies to integrate the STEM fields into the German curriculum. Their contribution presents the ways they utilized the STEM materials procured in Leipzig, provides a brief overview of primary textbooks and then describes the newly created “German for STEM” course. The course description includes details about the in-class experiments that are conducive to experiential learning.
