German Studies and Linguistics : BA Hons : QR12

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Core

• Linguistics
• Part I German Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
• Part I German Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)

Optional

• English Language
• Part I Chinese (Intensive)

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
• Sounds of the World's Languages
• Structures of the World's Languages

Optional

• Corporate communication
• Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
• Developing Academic Practice
• Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
• Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
• English Grammar
• English Phonetics
• Independent Study
• Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
• Language and Pedagogic Practice
• Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
• Society on Screen: The Language of Film
• Stylistics
• The Language of Advertising
• Understanding culture
• Understanding Media

Core

• Residence Abroad: intercultural and academic reflection

Core

• Cognitive Linguistics
• German Language Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
• German Language Written Skills (CEFR C1/C2)
• Topics in Phonetic and Phonological Theory

Optional

• Advanced English Phonetics
• Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
• Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
• Corpus-based English Language Studies
• Dissertation
• Forensic Linguistics
• Images of Austria: National Identity and Cultural Representation
• Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
• Language and Identities: Gender, ethnicity and class
• Language Change in English and Beyond
• Language in the Workplace: Topics in Professional Communication
• Literature and Fame in Contemporary Germany
• Mirrors across Media: Reflexivity in Literature, Film, Comics and Video Games
• Psycholinguistics
• Schools Volunteering Module
• 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.

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.