German and comparative literature 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 Languages
• Foundations of German Studies (for post A-level and native speaker entrants) OR European Literature and its Contexts (for beginners). Post-GCSE entrants will be guided to one of these options.
• German language module (streamed according to entry level)
• Introduction to Comparison
• Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts
• The Scene of Learning
• Understanding Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Theory

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• Contemporary German Studies I OR Contemporary German Studies II
• German language module (streamed according to entry level)
• The Scene of Reading

• Colonial Literatures, Post-Colonial Perspectives
• Experiments in contemporary Women’s Writing
• Fairy Tales in the Modern World
• Homeward Bound: From the Odyssey to O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Literature and Philosophy
• Madness, Past and Present
• Migration through Photography
• Photography and Narrative
• Why Belgium? Identities, Cultures, Narratives

• Brecht and the Drama
• German for Business
• German Narrative Fiction: Text and Film
• German Play
• German Romanticism in its European Context
• 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 (streamed according to entry level)
• The Scene of Writing

• Comparative Literature Research Project
• Comparative Modernisms: the Case of China and India
• Constellations: Online Anthology Group Project
• Faust in Legend, Literature and the Arts
• First World War Literatures
• Grand Tours: 19th century Adventure Stories for Young Readers and their 20th century Afterlives
• Lost in Translation?
• On the Subject of Sex II: Queen to Queer
• Photography: The Self and its Image
• The East in the West

• Advanced German for Business
• Anglo-German Cultural Relations Past and Present
• 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 will 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.