German Studies and English Literature : BA Hons

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster’s joint German Studies and English Literature degree is taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures in conjunction with the Department of English and Creative Writing. The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 ranks Lancaster 2nd for German and 11th for English.

Your German Studies programme enables you to acquire high-level language skills while gaining a thorough understanding of the country’s historical, cultural, social and political background in a global context. In English Literature you will study a wide range of authors, genres, historical periods, literary movements, techniques and critical approaches.

Your first year comprises an exploration of the German language and its cultural context, as well as a core module in English Literature. Alongside this, you can choose another English module such as World Literature or Creative Writing, or alternatively a minor subject from another department.

Building on your language skills in Year 2, you will study the culture, politics and history of Germany and Austria in more depth, as well as selecting modules which are international in scope and promote a comparative understanding of Europe and beyond. You will combine these with the core English module, ‘The Theory and Practice of Criticism’ and choose options such as ‘British Romanticism’, ‘Literature and Film’ and ‘American Literature to 1900’.

Spending your third year abroad in a German-speaking country makes a major contribution to your command of the language, while deepening your intercultural sensitivity. You can study at a partner institution or conduct a work placement.

In your final year, you consolidate your German language skills, and study specialist culture and comparative modules, such as ‘Mirrors across Media: Reflexivity in Literature, Film, Comics and Video Games’.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

As well as language and subject-related skills, a degree in languages develops rich interpersonal, intercultural, cognitive and transferable skills. Combined with the communication, self-expression, research and critical understanding skills gained studying English Literature, a wide range of business and public-sector roles will be open to you. Graduates go on to work in publishing, journalism, librarianship, television and the media, IT, business development, civil service, events management, finance, research and sales, as well as teaching and translating both in the UK and abroad.

A Level AAB

Required Subjects A level English Literature or A level English Language and Literature grade A. A level German, or if this is to be studied from beginners’ level, AS grade B or A level grade B in another foreign language, or GCSE grade A or 7 in a foreign language. Native German speakers will not be accepted onto this scheme.

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • German Language
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Writing
  • American Literature
  • International
  • German Studies
  • Oral
  • Written
  • Cross-Cultural
  • Dissertation
  • Autocrats
  • Literature
  • Film

Course programme

Year 1

Core

  • English Literature
  • Part I German Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
  • Part I German Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)
Year 2

Core

  • Becoming German: Post-War German-language, Culture and Identities
  • German Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: B2)
  • German Language: Oral Skills (post-Beginners/CEFR: B1)
  • German Language: Written Skills (CEFR: B2)
  • German Language: Written Skills (Post-Beginners/CEFR: B1)
  • Second Year Programme for Academic Skills, Employability and International placement preparation
  • The Theory and Practice of Criticism

Optional

  • American Literature to 1900
  • British Romanticism
  • Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
  • Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
  • Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
  • Literature, Film, and Media
  • Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
  • Renaissance to Restoration, English Literature, 1580-1688
  • Society on Screen: The Language of Film
  • Understanding culture
  • Victorian Literature
Year 3

Core

  • Residence Abroad: intercultural and academic reflection
Year 4

Core

  • German Language Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
  • German Language Written Skills (CEFR C1/C2)

Optional

  • 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
  • African Literature
  • Between the Acts
  • Bible and Literature
  • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
  • Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory
  • Contemporary Literature in English
  • Dissertation Unit
  • Early Modern Outlaws: On Land and Sea
  • Elizabethan Embodiment
  • Images of Austria: National Identity and Cultural Representation
  • Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
  • Literature and Fame in Contemporary Germany
  • Literature and the Visual Arts
  • Monstrous Bodies: Romantic Period Poetry and Prose
  • Other Victorians
  • Performing Death, Desire and Gender
  • Ruskin on Art, Architecture and Society
  • Schools Volunteering Project
  • Science Fiction in Literature and Film
  • Shakespeare
  • The Byron-Shelley Circle
  • The Literature of Sleep
  • The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
  • The Prosecution of 'Otherness' in Europe: Witchcraft, Heresy and Inquisition (14th -17th C)
  • Translation as a Cultural Practice
  • Utopias and Utopianism
  • Victorian Gothic
  • Victorian Popular Fiction
  • Where Do Poems Come From? Process, Manuscripts, Text
  • Women Writers of Britain and America

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years. For more information about our teaching methods at Lancaster visit our Teaching and Learning section.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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