German with English 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 are required to take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in English.

German

If you are an ab initio student, 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)
• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature and Society (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

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

• Texts and Contexts (30 credits)
• Translation from and into German I (15 credits)
• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature and Society (15 credits)

English

There are no required modules in your first year.

German

All students are required to take two 15-credit optional modules 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)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

English

You will take 30 credits from a wide range of options that may typically include:

• Introducing Literary Theories (15 credits)
• Writing London (15 credits)
• Reading Poetry (15 credits)
• Classical and Biblical Contexts (15 credits)
• Medieval Literary Culture (15 credits)
• Early Modern Literary Culture (15 credits)
• Introduction to American Studies (15 credits)

Year 2

In your second year you are reauired to take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in English.

German

If you are an ab initio student, you are required to take:

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

You will additionally take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may 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)

You will additionally take 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)

You will additionally take 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)

English

In your second year there are no required modules.

German

If you are an ab initio student, you will take 45 credits from a range of modules which may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• 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, you will take 45 credits chosen from optional modules which may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• 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 will take 60 credits chosen from optional modules which may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• 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)

English

You are required to take two modules (30 credits) from a wide range of options that may typically include:

• Cultural Encounters (Medieval) (15 credits)
• History, Politics & the Elizabethan imagination (15 credits)
• The Rise of the Novel (15 credits)
• Performance in Medieval Culture (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Comedy and Identity (15 credits)
• London Literature 1380-1450 (Medieval) (15 credits)
• The Poetry of Revolution (15 credits)
• Prose Fiction (15 credits)
• Literature and Psychoanalysis (15 credits)
• Modern Theatre (15 credits)
• Theatre Capital (15 credits)
• Fin de Siecle (15 credits)
• C19th American Literature (15 credits)
• The Colonial Novel and British India (15 credits)
• Mapping Modernism (15 credits)
• American Popular Culture (15 credits)
• Theory, Culture & Politics after the 1960s (15 credits)
• Creative Writing Drama (15 credits)
• Old English Poems and Modern British Poetry (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Subjects of Desire (Medieval) (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 are required to take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in English.

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student, you are required to take:
• German Core Language III (30 credits)

You are also required to take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may typically include:
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (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:

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

You are also required to take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may typically include:
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• Death and the Afterlife in Medieval and Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)

English

There are no required modules in fourth year.

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native German speaker, you will also take 45 credits from a range of optional German modules, which may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (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)

If you are a native German speaker, you will also take 60 credits from a range of optional German modules, which may typically include:
• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (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)

English

You are required to take 30 credits from a wide range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Autobiography and Modern Self-Representation (15 credits)
• Critically Queer (15 credits)
• Jane Austen in context (15 credits)
• Beowulf (15 credits)
• Victorians Abroad (15 credits)
• Reading Paradise Lost (15 credits)
• Shakespeare's London (15 credits)
• Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Reading (15 credits)
• Modernist Short Story (15 credits)
• Poetry in America 1900 – 1950 (15 credits)
• Imagining Britain: Medieval Places, Journeys, Maps (15 credits)
• Late Shakespeare (15 credits)
• Literature & Media (15 credits)
• Creative Writing Poetry (15 credits)