Dr. Bornholdt, who in 2010 received the Teaching Excellence in Early Career Award from CUA, teaches courses on all aspects of German language, literature, and culture. She also teaches courses for the Program in Medieval and Byzantine Studies, the Honors Program, and the Certificate Program in European Studies. Her teaching occurs inside and outside the classroom, using the resources offered by the multicultural city of Washington, DC. Frequent visits to museums, the Austrian, German and Swiss Embassies, and the German Goethe-Institut are included in all her German courses. For her GER 402: Translation in Theory and Practice, her students cooperated with the German-American Heritage Museum in DC, preparing texts for an exhibition in spring 2011. She maintains very close relationships with the German cultural institutions. Several of her German students completed internships at the German-American Heritage museum and others have found part-time employment at the Goethe-Institut. During spring break 2012, she took a group of 8 students to Vienna.