German & Music with a year abroad

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

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

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, you are required to take:

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

Music

In your first year, there are no required modules.

German (for native German speakers only)

You are required to take 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)

Music

You are also required to take four optional modules from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Musical Performance (15 credits)
• Musical Analysis (15 credits)
• Techniques of Composition (15 credits)
• Issues & Topics in Music History I-IV (15 credits each)
• Aural Training (15 credits)

Year 2

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

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)

Music

In your second year, there are no required modules.

German

If you are an ab initio student, you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules that maytypically 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 into Literature (15 credits)

If you are a non-native German speaker, in your second year 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 & Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• History into Literature (15 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your second year you are required to take 30 credits of optional modules from a list which 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 & Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• History into Literature (15 credits)

Music

You will take 60 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Musical Performance II (15 credits)
• Musical Analysis II 15 credits)
• Techniques of Composition (15 credits)
• Composition Studies II (minor, 15 credits, major 30 credits)
• Love Song: The Troubadours and their Legacy (15 credits)
• Wagner (15 credits)
• Opera in the 20th Century (15 credits)
• Music in British Film (15 credits)
• Post-War Jazz (15 credits)
• Global Popular Music (15 credits)

Year 3

You will spend your third year abroad at one of our partner institutions, which currently include:

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

You will also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or to undertake an internship/work placement in a German-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 Music.

If you are an ab initio or non-native 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)

Music

In your fourth year, there are no required modules.

German:

Ab initio and non-native German speaking students will take 30 credits from a range of modules.

Native German speaking students will be required to select 45 credits from the same range of modules which may typically include:

• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (15 credits)
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (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)
• Death and the Afterlife in Medieval and Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)

Music:

You are required to take 60 credits of optional modules from a range that may typically include:

• Advanced Performance Studies (admission by audition) (45 credits)
• Advanced Free Composition (admission by portfolio) (45 credits)
• Musical Performance III (15 credits)
• Techniques of Composition III (30 credits)
• Contemporary Musicology
• Music, Gender, Sexuality (15 credits)
• Sound Studies (15 credits)
• Performance Practice (15 credits)
• Sacred Continental Polyphony (15 credits)
• The Beatles (15 credits)
• Broadway from Showboat to West Side Story (15 credits)
• Dissertation (30 credits)

Please note: there are prerequisites for all performance and composition modules.

In addition, you may take up to 30 credits in modules offered by other departments.