German and politics 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 Compulsory

• Critical Thinking and Writing for Modern Foreign Languages
• Thinking Politically: Introduction to concepts, theories and ideologies
• European Literature and its Contexts (for beginners) OR Foundations of German Studies (for post A-Level and native speakers). Post-GCSE entrants will be guided to one or other of these options.
• German language module (streamed according to entry level)

• Introduction to International Relations
• Political Analysis

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• Contemporary German Studies I and/or Contemporary German Studies II (streamed according to entry level)
• German language module (streamed according to entry level)
• Modern Political Thought 1

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

• Accountability and Complexity in British Government
• Colonialism, Capitalism and Development
• Comparative European Politics I - Context and Institutional Development
• Comparative European Politics II - Issues and Performance
• European Integration
• International Relations Theory
• Modern Political Thought 2
• Modernity: Theories of State, Economy and Society
• Political Research
• Politics of International Law
• Power and Legitimacy in British Politics
• Power in Global Governance
• Researching Everyday Politics
• The International Politics of Security
• The International Politics of the Developing World
• US Politics
• War in World Politics

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

• 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: German
• Modern Languages Research Project

• Africa and International Politics
• American Politics, Carceral State and Social Movements
• British Economic and Social Policy Since 1945 – Ideas, Interests and Institutions
• British Economic and Social Policy Since 1945 – Independent Research
• Contemporary Russian Politics
• Doing International Politics
• Gender and Politics
• Global Politics of Health and Disease
• Globalisation: Issues and Debates
• Justice in a Global City
• Latin American Politics
• Nationalism and Ethnicity in International Relations
• Parliamentary Studies
• Parliamentary Studies (Internship)
• Political Violence and Liberal Modernity
• Politics of South Asia
• Politics of South Asia – Independent Research
• Populism in 21st Century Europe
• Race and Racism in World Politics
• Race and Racism in World Politics: Independent Research
• Radical Politics
• Radical Politics Today – Independent Research
• Teaching Popularism: A Global Perspective
• The Politics of the Post-Colonial Middle East
• US Foreign Policy
• Utopia and Dystopia: Political, Economic and Literary Dreamworlds
• Utopia and Dystopia: Political, Economic and Literary Dreamworlds: Independent Research

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:

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