BA English and German (4 years)

University of Southampton

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
A joint degree in English and German provides a broad understanding of English language and literature along with language training in German. Your third year will be spent abroad in a German-speaking country as an English language assistant, studying on a university course, or on an approved work placement. Our graduates have gone on to careers in fashion, journalism, financial services, management and administration, teaching, travel and tourism, creative writing, and many other areas.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • German Language
  • German Speaking
  • English Language
  • Credit
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • University
  • Writing
  • Joint

Course programme

Year 1

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

You will choose four modules each semester. You should take at least one English module in semester one, and two English modules in semester two. One module in each semester will normally be your German language course.

German:
You will normally choose one optional modern languages module in each semester. However, you may opt to take a single module in an alternative subject.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
GERM9011 German Language Stage 4

Compulsory

LANG1017

Academic Skills for ML students

Optional

ENGL1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Poetic Language

ENGL1085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Multimedia Old English: Song, Skin and Cyberspace

ENGL1086Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Act of the Essay

ENGL1089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Novel

GERM1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Modern German Culture

GERM1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to German Linguistic Studies

GERM1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

German History, Politics and Society

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
GERM9011 German Language Stage 4

Optional

ENGL1079Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Stage and Screen: An Introduction

ENGL1080Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Literary Transformations

ENGL1087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Group Research Project

ENGL1090Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Theory & Criticism

LANG1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Reading Culture

LANG1013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Reading the City

LING1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning

LING1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Applications of Linguistics

Year 2

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

English:

Students normally choose one double module in one semester and two single modules in the other semester

German:
Students should normally choose one optional Modern Languages module (GERM / LING / LANG / FILM2008) in each semester. You much choose at least one optional GERM module in the year. FILM2008 may count as a GERM module.

LANG2010 is a compulsory fifth module for all second year students taking a Modern Languages degree, whether single or joint honours.

You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15 credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English, the other the equivalent credits in German.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
GERM9012 German Language Stage 5

Compulsory

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

Optional

ENGL2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Romanticism

ENGL2011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women, Writing and Modernity in Britain, 1790 - 1865

ENGL2012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Jewish Fictions

ENGL2027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Children's Literature

ENGL2029Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Modern Drama Since the Second World War

ENGL2046Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Images of Africa in Literature and Culture

ENGL2051Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Objects of Desire

ENGL2073Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Visions of Beowulf: new encounters with Anglo-Saxon culture

ENGL2077Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Money and Meaning in American Fiction

ENGL2080Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England

ENGL2083Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Tales of Travel c.1000-1650: Idylls, Utopias, Monsters, and Cannibals

ENGL2087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Great Writers Steal: Creative Writing and Critical Thinking

ENGL2091Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

From Black and White to Colour: A Screen History of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-War Britain

ENGL2092Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women Writers Remixed ca. 1850-1915

ENGL2094Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Victorian Feelings

GERM2006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present

FILM2019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women and Hollywood

LANG2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Globalisation: Culture, Language and The Nation State

LANG2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography

LING2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Psycholinguistics

LING2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Syntax: Studying Language Structure

LING2004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Discourse Analysis

LING2008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Sound and Voice (see also ISVR2016: Speech Sciences and Lip-Reading)

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
GERM9012 German Language Stage 5

Compulsory

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

Optional

ENGL2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Modern American Poetry

ENGL2010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Postcolonial Texts and Contexts

ENGL2052Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Images of Women

ENGL2061Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

The Nineteenth-Century Novel

ENGL2063Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Problems in Shakespeare: text, print and performance

ENGL2075Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories

ENGL2076Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Creative Writing after Modernism

ENGL2078Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Scriptwriting

ENGL2079Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Contemporary Women's Writing

ENGL2085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Enlightenment Body

ENGL2089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Poems, Books and Anthologies

ENGL2093Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Contemporary Fiction and Visual Culture

ENGL2095Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Patriots and Cosmopolitans: African modes of belonging

ENGL2096Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Making New York Modern

ENGL2097Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Arthurian Worlds

PHIL2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Aesthetics

GERM2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Media Perspectives on Post-68 Germany

GERM2004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Language and Society in German-Speaking World

LANG2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The EU and European Identity

LING2007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

LING2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Multilingualism

HUMA2007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Humanities University Ambassadors Scheme (Modern Languages)

Year 3

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

You will spend the year abroad in a country where German is spoken, either as:

  • an English language assistant
  • studying on a university course
  • on an approved work placement

Investigative Project:
Independent study project (6,000 words) supervised by a member of staff

Further information:
Year abroad

Year 4

English:
If you wish to do an English dissertation in semester two, you will normally choose EITHER two single English modules OR one double English module in semester one. If you do not wish to take an English dissertation, you will normally choose one double English module in semester one and two single English modules in semester two.

German:
You will normally choose one optional Modern Languages module (GERM / LING / LANG) in each semester. You must choose at least one optional GERM module in the year.

.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
GERM9014 German Language Stage 7

Optional

ENGL3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Rakes and Libertines

ENGL3004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Writing the Novel

ENGL3015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Fantasy Film and Fiction

ENGL3039Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Sweatshops, Sex Workers and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation

ENGL3047Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Literature and Visual Culture from the Middle East

ENGL3053Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Chaucer and his World

ENGL3056Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Victorian Bestsellers

ENGL3062Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Nuclear explosions, genetic engineering, and climate change: How literature has held the sciences to account since 1945

ENGL3069Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Love and Death in Africa's Cities

ENGL3078Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS)

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