BA German and History (4 years)

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
If you have a passion for language and history than our BA German and History degree course is for you. Studying German alongside History not only improves your employability but provides graduates with a life skill and a fluency in a widely spoken language. On this degree course you also have the fantastic opportunity to spend a year abroad in a German-speaking country, allowing you to really learn both the language and culture.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • German Language
  • German Speaking
  • Politics
  • Credit

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 History, the other two in each semester will be taken in Modern Languages. One module in each semester will be your German Language course.

History:

One compulsory double module in Semester 1. Choose two optional History (HIST) modules in Semester 2.

Also compulsory GERM9011 for semester 1 and 2.

German:
Choose one optional Modern Languages module (GERM / LING / LANG) in each semester

You must do one German module in semester 1 and one Modern Language module in semester 2.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
GERM9___ German Language

Compulsory

HIST1151Credit[?]

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

: 30

World Histories: Contact, Conflict and Culture from Ancient to Modern

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: Two History Cases and Contexts modules (two single modules) plus German Language module (compulsory) and one Modern Language module.

Compulsory language module:
GERM9___ German Language

Optional

HIST1008Credit[?]

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

: 15

A Tudor Revolution in Government?

HIST1011Credit[?]

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

: 15

The First World War

HIST1012Credit[?]

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

: 15

Who is Anne Frank?

HIST1016Credit[?]

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

: 15

Masada: History and Myth

HIST1019Credit[?]

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

: 15

The First Crusade: Sources and Distortions

HIST1022Credit[?]

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

: 15

Childhood and Youth in Early Modern Society

HIST1074Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Battle of Agincourt

HIST1076Credit[?]

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

: 15

God's Own Land: Exploring Pakistan's Origins and History

HIST1084Credit[?]

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

: 15

Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Victorian Britain

HIST1085Credit[?]

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

: 15

German Jews in Great Britain

HIST1087Credit[?]

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

: 15

Papal power in medieval Europe: crusades, heresy and clashes with kings

HIST1089Credit[?]

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

: 15

Histories of Empire

HIST1102Credit[?]

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

: 15

The End of the World: Apocalyptic Visions of History

HIST1103Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Collapse of Austria-Hungary

HIST1113Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Crimean War

HIST1119Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Long Summer? Edwardian Britain 1901-1914

HIST1125Credit[?]

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

: 15

When an empire falls: Culture and the British Empire, 1914-1960

HIST1145Credit[?]

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

: 15

From Shah to Ayatollah: The Establishment of the Clerical Power in Iran (1979 to Today)

HIST1146Credit[?]

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

: 15

Joan of Arc: History behind the Myth

HIST1148Credit[?]

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

: 15

Castles: Military technology and social change from the middle ages to the modern

HIST1153Credit[?]

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

: 15

Alexander the Great and His Legacy

HIST1171Credit[?]

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

: 15

Reagan’s America: Capitalism and Cold War

HIST1176Credit[?]

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

: 15

Eisenhower and the World: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s

HIST1177Credit[?]

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

: 15

Twentieth-Century China

ARCH1062Credit[?]

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

: 15

Wonderful things: World history in 40 objects

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.

German:
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.
LANG2010 is a compulsory fifth semester two module for all second year students taking a Modern Languages degree, whether single or combined honours.

Semester One

History:
History module (double module) plus German Language module GERM9069/GERM9070(compulsory) and one Modern Language module

.

Compulsory language module:
GERM9___ German Language

Compulsory

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

Optional

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

HIST2003Credit[?]

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

: 30

Power, Patronage and Politics in Early Modern England 1509-1660

HIST2039Credit[?]

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

: 30

Imperialism and Nationalism in British India

HIST2049Credit[?]

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

: 30

Sin and Society, 1100-1500

HIST2051Credit[?]

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

: 30

The British Atlantic World

HIST2055Credit[?]

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

: 15

Ancient Rome: the First Metropolis

HIST2064Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Space Age

HIST2069Credit[?]

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

: 15

Knights and Chivalry

HIST2071Credit[?]

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

: 15

Celebrity, Media and Mass Culture, Britain 1888-1952

HIST2073Credit[?]

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

: 15

Jews in Germany before the Holocaust

HIST2082Credit[?]

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

: 15

Nelson Mandela: A South African life

HIST2085Credit[?]

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

: 30

Rebels with a Cause: The Historical Origins of Christianity

HIST2094Credit[?]

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

: 15

Wellington and the war against Napoleon

HIST2097Credit[?]

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

: 15

Napoleon and his legend

HIST2100Credit[?]

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

: 15

Retail Therapy: A journey through the cultural history of shopping

HIST2102Credit[?]

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

: 15

Discipline and Punish: Prisons and Prisoners in England 1775 - 1898

HIST2103Credit[?]

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

: 15

Self-inflicted - Extreme Violence, Politics and Power

HIST2106Credit[?]

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

: 30

In Hitler's Shadow: Eastern Europe 1918-1939

HIST2107Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Fall of Imperial Russia

HIST2110Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Global Cold War

HIST2215Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Age of Discovery? c.1350-c.1650

HIST2216Credit[?]

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

: 30

Oil Burns The Hands: Power, Politics and Petroleum in Iraq, 1900-1958

HIST2217Credit[?]

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

: 30

From the mafia to the ultras: Conflict, violence and the Italian Republic from 1945 to the 1990s

HIST2218Credit[?]

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

: 15

Sex, Death and Money: the United Kingdom in the 1960s

HIST2219Credit[?]

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

: 15

Ritual Murder: The Antisemitic Blood Libel from Twelfth-Century England to twentieth-century Russia

HIST2221Credit[?]

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

: 15

Modern Germany, 1870-1945

HUMA2008Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings

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:
GERM9___ German Language

Compulsory

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

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

HIST2004Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Making of Englishness

HIST2031Credit[?]

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

: 30

Stalin and Stalinism

HIST2036Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Hundred Years War

HIST2045Credit[?]

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

: 30

Cleopatra’s Egypt

HIST2053Credit[?]

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

: 30

Habsburg Spain, 1469-1700: The Rise and Decline of the First European Superpower

HIST2076 The First British Empire: the beginnings of English dominance, 1050-1300

HIST2086Credit[?]

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

: 30

Building London 1666-2012

HIST2087Credit[?]

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

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BA German and History (4 years)

£ 9,250 + VAT