BA Film 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
Broaden your horizons studying this degree in Film and German. A degree that provides students with the skillset to understand and analyse film as well as the ability to speak and understand the German language. Your third year will be spent abroad at one of our German-speaking partner institutions where you will expand your learning of both the German language and German cinema.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • German Language
  • German Speaking
  • Credit
  • Cinema

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.

In each semester you will be required to follow four modules (a total of eight modules over the year). Two modules in each semester (or one double) will be taken in Film, the other two in each semester will taken in Modern Languages. One module in each semester will be your German language course.

Film:
One compulsory double module in each semester.

German:
Choose one optional Modern Languages unit in each semester.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
GERM9011 German Language Stage 4

Compulsory

FILM1001Credit[?]

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

: 30

Introduction to Film I: Hollywood

Optional

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

FILM1002Credit[?]

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

: 30

Introduction to Film II: European Cinema

FILM1027Credit[?]

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

: 15

Introduction to Film: European Cinema

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.

Film:
Choose one optional FILM module in each semester.

German:
Choose one optional Modern Languages module in each semester (GERM / LING / LANG / FILM2008). You must choose at least one GERM module in the year. FILM2008 may count as a GERM module. One module in each semester will be your German language course.

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

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
GERM9012 German Language Stage 5

Students should choose TWO Film modules

Optional

FILM2003Credit[?]

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

: 15

Film Noir: Exile Filmmakers and 1940s Hollywood

FILM2013Credit[?]

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

: 15

Technical and Creative Writing

FILM2015Credit[?]

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

: 15

British Contemporary Filmmakers

FILM2019Credit[?]

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

: 15

Women and Hollywood

FILM2022Credit[?]

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

: 15

Contemporary Chinese Cinema

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

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

Students should choose ONE optional Film module

Compulsory

FILM2002Credit[?]

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

: 15

Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929

Optional

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

FILM2020Credit[?]

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

: 15

World Cinema

FILM2023Credit[?]

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

: 15

Animation: Techology, Culture and Industry

FILM2026Credit[?]

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

: 15

Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday

Year 3

You will spend the year abroad in a country where one of the chosen languages 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

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.

Dissertation
A Film or German dissertation is optional.

Film:
Choose one optional FILM module in each semester.

German:
Choose one optional Modern Languages module in each semester (GERM / LING / LANG). You must choose at least one GERM module in the year. One module in each semester will be your German language course.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
GERM9014 German Language Stage 7

Optional

FILM3003Credit[?]

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

: 30

Film Dissertation

FILM3009Credit[?]

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

: 15

Science Fiction Film after 1973

FILM3012Credit[?]

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

: 15

Music in Film and Television

FILM3025Credit[?]

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

: 15

International Film Industry: Issues and Debates

LANG3003Credit[?]

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

: 30

Dissertation

LANG3007Credit[?]

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

: 15

Translation: Theory and Practice

LING3001Credit[?]

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

: 15

Second Language Acquisition

LING3003Credit[?]

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

: 15

Advanced Syntax

LING3005Credit[?]

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

: 15

Language Teaching Theory and Practice

GERM3016Credit[?]

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

: 15

Language and the City

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
GERM9014 German Language Stage 7

Optional

LANG3003Credit[?]

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

: 30

Dissertation

FILM3003Credit[?]

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

: 30

Film Dissertation

FILM3006Credit[?]

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

: 15

American Cinema Since 1965

FILM3018Credit[?]

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

: 15

Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema

FILM3024Credit[?]

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

: 15

Horror on Film

FILM3027Credit[?]

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

: 15

Television Studies: Key Issues and Debates

GERM3006Credit[?]

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

: 15

Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany

GERM3017Credit[?]

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

: 15

Renaissance of German-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust

LANG3006Credit[?]

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

: 15

Public Service Interpreting

LANG3008Credit[?]

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

: 15

Audiovisual Translation

LING3006Credit[?]

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

: 15

Writing in a Second Language

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