German and Spanish with a year abroad

Year 1

Each course is divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

In your first year, you will take 60 credits in German and 60 credits in Spanish.

German

If you are an ab initio student, in your first year you are required to take:

• Introductory German (30 Credits)
• Texts and Contexts for ab initio (30 credits)

If you are a non-native German speaker, in your first year you are required to take:

• German Core Language I (30 credits)
• Texts and Contexts (30 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your first year you are required to take:

• Translation from and into German I (15 credits)
• Texts and Contexts (30 credits)

Spanish

In your first year you are required to take:

• Core Spanish Language I (30 credits)
• Global Iberias (30 credits)

German

Ig you are a native German speaker you also choose one 15 credit optional module from a range of options that may typically include:

• Milestones of German History (15 credits)
• One Hundred and Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)
• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature and Society (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

Spanish

There are no optional modules in your first year.

Year 2

In your second year, you will take 60 credits in German and 60 credits in Spanish.

German

If you are an ab initio student, you are required to take:

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

At least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may typically include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

If you are a non-native German speaker, in your second year you are required to take:

• German Core Language II (30 credits)

At least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may typically include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your second year you are required to take:

• Translation from and into German II (15 credits)

At least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may typically include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

Spanish

Second year students are required to take:

• Core Spanish Language II (30 credits)

German

If you are an ab initio student, you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• Society and Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• History intoLiterature (15 credits)

If you are a non-native German speaker, you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed
• German in London: The City in Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Society and Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• Hitler's Victim? Modern Austrian Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• History intoLiterature (15 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• he pre-modern modules listed
• German in London: The City in Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Society and Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• Hitler's Victim? Modern Austrian Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• History intoLiterature (15 credits)

Spanish

You are required to choose two 15-credit optional modules from a wide range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Catalan Language & Culture (15 credits)
• Bodily Desires: Love and Sexuality in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Lyric (15 credits)
• Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
• Culture & Identity in Spanish America (15 credits)
• Perceptions of Modernity, Spanish America 1800-1920 (15 credits)
• Modern Spanish Cultures (15 credits)

Year 3

You will spend your third year abroad, for one semester in a German-speaking country and the other semester in a Spanish-speaking country. Current partner institutions include:

German

• Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Universität Wien
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg
• Universität Mannheim

Spanish

• Alicante
• Cadiz
• Carlos III (Madrid)
• Córdoba
• País Vasco
• Pompeu Fabra
• PUC (Chile)
• Tec (Querétaro, Mexico)
• Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus)
• UNAM (Mexico)
• Pacifico (Peru)
• Salamanca
• San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

You will also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or to undertake an internship or work placement in a German or Spanish-speaking environment, which you will normally be expected to organise independently, allowing you to explore career prospects and personal interests.

Year 4

In your fourth year, you will take 60 credits in German and 60 credits in Spanish.

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native German speaking student, you are required to take:

• German Core Language III (30 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your fourth year, you are required to take:

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

Spanish

In your fourth year, you are required to take:

• Core Spanish Language IV (30 credits)

German

Ab initio and non-native German speakers

You are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional German modules, which may typically include:

• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• Death and the Afterlife in Medieval and Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (15 credits)
• German in the World: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics [European & International Studies] (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East and West (15 credits)
• Writing in Tongues: Literature & Migration in the Modern German Context (15 credits)

Native German speakers

You are required to take 45 credits from a range of optional German modules, which may typically include:

• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• Death and the Afterlife in Medieval and Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (15 credits)
• German in the World: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics [European & International Studies] (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East and West (15 credits)
• Writing in Tongues: Literature & Migration in the Modern German Context (15 credits)

Spanish

In addition, you will choose two optional 15-credit modules, which may typically include:

• Advanced Topics in Applied Linguistics (15 credits)
• Advanced Catalan Language (15 credits)
• Myth & Archive: 19th & 20th Century Rewritings on Colonial Latin America (15 credits)
• Stereotypes in Modern Spanish Cinema (15 credits)
• Key Terms & Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts (15 credits)
• Journey through Spain: Travel Writing in Modern Spain (15 credits)
• History & Imagination in 19th-century Spanish Narrative (15 credits)
• Writing Women in Pre-Modern Spain (15 credits)
• Imperial Visions in Iberian Literature (15 credits)
• Research Dissertation option