Film studies and german ba (hons)

Structure

The German language modules you take will depend on your entry level. We offer separate classes for beginner, post-GCSE, post-A-level and native speakers.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1

• Critical Thinking and Writing for Modern Foreign Language Students
• Film: Approaches and Analysis
• Film: Concepts and History
• Foundations of German Studies (for post-A-level and native speakers) OR European Literature and its Contexts (for beginners). GCSE entrants may take either option
• German language module (streamed according to entry level - for all levels apart from native speakers)

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• Contemporary German Studies I OR Contemporary German Studies II (according to entry level)
• German language module (streamed according to entry level)
• What is Cinema? Critical Approaches

Choose up to three from

• Film Curation
• Film, Literature and Adaption
• Introduction to British Cinema
• Memories of the Holocaust and Colonialism in French Cinema
• Scriptwriting: Adaptation and Original Script
• The French New Wave

Choose one from

• Brecht and the Drama
• German Film 1
• German Narrative Fiction: Text and Film
• German Romanticism in its European Context
• German for Business
• The (Re-)Birth of Tragedy: Schiller, Nietzsche and other Legacies

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

• Year abroad

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 4 Compulsory

• German language module

Choose at least three from

• British Cinema from the 1960s New wave to the Arrival of Channel 4
• Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
• Eco-Cinemas: Nature, Animals and the Moving Image
• Film Archaeology
• Film Philosophy
• Film and Ethics
• Reading German Film III: Contemporary German Cinema

Choose up to three from

• Anglo-German Cultural Relations Past and Present
• German Film II
• German Poetry in the 20th Century
• German Sociolinguistics
• German Swiss Literature and Culture
• Languages in the Classroom: Teaching German
• Modern Languages Research Project

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year abroad

You'll spend your year abroad in Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland.

You have three options for how to spend your year abroad:

• teaching English as a foreign language assistant
• attending university
• in the professional world, either on a work placement with our support, or independently with our approval.