German Studies and Film : BA Hons

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

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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 Film degree is taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures in conjunction with Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA). German ranks 2nd overall in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017.

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 Film, you’ll examine cinema’s aesthetic, social and political importance in the context of an increasingly visual and media-orientated culture, while also investigating the intersections between contemporary art, theatre, design, sound and film.

Your first year comprises an exploration of the German language and its cultural context as well as an introduction to Film Studies and the core module, ‘Modernism in the Arts’. Alongside this, you will study a minor subject of your choice.

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 modules ‘Critical Reflections’ and ‘Hollywood and Beyond: Global Cinema’.

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 ‘Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film’. You will also choose film modules such as ‘Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema’, ‘Silent Cinema’ or ‘Media and Performance’.

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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 that can be utilised across a variety of careers such as accountancy, IT, business development, civil service, events management, finance, journalism, publishing, research and sales, as well as teaching and translating both in the UK and abroad. Film graduates may go on to roles in TV or independent film production and jobs in advertising, marketing and media production, arts administration and management.

A Level ABB

Required Subjects 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 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
  • Film Studies
  • Sound
  • Cinema
  • International
  • Global
  • Media
  • Hollywood
  • German Studies
  • Oral
  • Written
  • Cross-Cultural
  • Dissertation
  • Autocrats
  • Film

Course programme

Year 1

Core

  • Introduction to Film Studies
  • 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)
  • Hollywood and beyond: Global cinema
  • Second Year Programme for Academic Skills, Employability and International placement preparation

Optional

  • Critical Reflections
  • Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
  • Documentary Cultures
  • Documentary Film Practice
  • Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
  • European New Wave Cinema
  • Film and Comic Books
  • Introduction to Sound
  • Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
  • LICA Work Placement
  • Media & Performance
  • Perception and the Arts
  • Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
  • Society on Screen: The Language of Film
  • Understanding culture
  • Women Filmmakers: critical visions, critical revisions
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

  • Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema
  • Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
  • Classic Hollywood: The Studio Era
  • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
  • Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
  • Creative Enterprise
  • Dissertation
  • Film Theory
  • Full Unit Dissertation
  • 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
  • Mirrors across Media: Reflexivity in Literature, Film, Comics and Video Games
  • Silent Cinema
  • The Prosecution of 'Otherness' in Europe: Witchcraft, Heresy and Inquisition (14th -17th C)
  • Translation as a Cultural Practice

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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Overseas

£15,680

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German Studies and Film : BA Hons

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