BA English Literature and German QR32

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1 Core modules include:

• Genre and Context
• Poetry in English
• Research and Criticism
• German language at: Advanced level (for students with A level German) or Intermediate (for students with an A at GCSE German) or Beginners (for students with no experience in German)

Optional modules include:

• Icons of Modern Germany
• German Texts and Genres
• Creative Writing
• Persuasive Writing
• Twentieth-Century American Literature

Comparative modules include:

• The Making of Modern Europe (1): Europe to 1945
• The Making of Modern Europe (2): Europe since 1945
• Greats of European Cinema
• Introduction to linguistics

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 2 Core modules include:

• German language

Optional modules include:

• The Business of Books
• Contemporary Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1950-present
• Writing, Gender, Identity
• Writing, Genre and the Market
• Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
• Communications at Work (placement module)
• Critical Issues
• Early Modern Theatre Practice
• Introduction to Old English Literature
• Literature, Language and Education (placement module)
• Literature, Language and Media (placement module)
• Lyric Voices 1340-1650
• Modernism
• Renaissance Texts and Cultures
• Restoration to Revolution: 1660-1789
• Shakespeare
• The Romantic Period
• Victorian Literature
• Writing America
• Writing and Revising

Comparative modules include:

• Society, thought, and art in Modern Europe
• Unity, nationalism and regionalism in Europe
• Science, perversion, and dream in global fantastic literature
• Love in Medieval Renaissance

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 3

You can choose from three options for your third year: studying at a partner institution through the Erasmus+ programme, undertaking a work placement or working as a British Council language teaching assistant.

Our German partner institutions include universities in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Göttingen, Potsdam, Regensburg, Trier and Tübingen. The University of Vienna and the University of Graz in Austria are also possible destinations. The Department of Modern Languages and European Studies has a dedicated study abroad officer who can help you prepare for study at one of these universities.

If you would prefer to undertake a placement for your year abroad, you can also talk to the Department's specialist year abroad team, who can provide you with support in securing and preparing for a placement. Past students have carried out roles with companies such as Siemens, PwC, SAP, and Airbus Helicopters.

Year 4 Core modules include:

• Dissertation
• Advanced German language

Optional modules include:

• American Graphic Novel
• Family Romances: Genealogy, Identity, and Imposture in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Holocaust Testimony: Memory, Trauma and Representation
• Restoration Literary Culture: Drama and Poetry, 1660-1700
• 'Eyes on the Prize': Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
• Advanced German Language III (Structure & Composition)
• Advanced German Language III (Translation)
• American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
• Black British Fiction
• Children's Literature
• City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
• Class Matters
• Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
• Colonial Explorations
• Contemporary American Fiction
• Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
• Dickens
• Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
• Editing the Renaissance
• Fiction and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain and America
• Hitchcock
• Holocaust Fiction
• Introduction to Language Teaching
• Irish Poetry after Yeats
• James Joyce
• John Milton: Poet of the English Republic
• Language in Politics
• Literature and the Railway
• Margaret Atwood
• Mobility and the Metropolis: Berlin in German Literature
• Modern Epic
• Modern Scottish Fiction: From Jean Brodie to Trainspotting
• Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
• Modernism and Politics
• Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
• Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
• Packaging Literature
• Psychoanalysis and Text
• Samuel Beckett
• Science in Culture
• Shakespeare and Gender
• Shakespeare on Film
• The African-American Short Story
• The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sex and Sensibility
• The Writer's Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
• Utopia
• Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fantasy
• Victorian Literature and Medicine
• Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
• Writing Global Justice
• Writing Women: Nineteenth Century Poetry
• German Language for Management and Business
• Mobility and the Metropolis: Berlin in German Literature
• War on Screen - Germany and its films about WWII
• Migration in Germany

Comparative modules include:

• EU Case studies I
• EU Case studies II
• EU Case studies III
• Cinemas of the World
• 19th Century European Novel
• Language and Power

Please note that all modules are subject to change.