German & Portuguese 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 will take 60 credits in German and 60 credits in Portuguese.

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)

Portuguese

You are required to take:

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

German

If you are a native German speaker you are required to take one 15 credit module from a range 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)

Portuguese

In your first year there are no optional modules.

Year 2

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

German

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

• Intermediate German II (30 credits)

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

• German Core Language II (30 credits)

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

• Translation from and into German II (15 credits)

Portuguese

All students are required to take:

• Core Language (30 credits)

German

If you are an ab intio or non-native German speaker you are required to take at least 15 credits from a range of modules that may typically include:

• 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 you are required to take 30 credits from a range of modules that contain some pre-modern content, from a range which 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)
• Any of the optional modules listed for ab initio or non-native German speakers

Portuguese
You will also take 30 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
• Brazilian Poetry & Song I: Modernism Samba and the Estado Novo 1915-1945 (15 credits)
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction in Brazil and Portugal
• Modernism: Outside In (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 Portuguese-speaking country. Our current partner institutions include:

German

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

Portuguese

• Lisboa
• Nova de Lisboa
• Coimbra
• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
• Universidade Federal da Bahia
• Universidade de São Paulo
• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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

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)

Portuguese

In your fourth year, you are required to take:

• Core Language (30 credits)

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional German 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)

If you are a native German speaker, in your fourth year, you are required to take 45 modules from the list above.

Portuguese

You will take 30 credits from a range of optional 15-credit modules, which may typically include:

• Composition in Portuguese (15 credits)
• Brazilian Poetry and Song II: 1958 to the Present (15 credits)
• Imperial Visions in Iberian Literature (15 credits)
• Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa and the Americas (15 credits)
• Love, Dictatorship & Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction (15 credits)
• Voicing Love and Dissent in the Sixteenth Century (15 credits)
• Dissertation (15 credits)