German with Film Studies with a year abroad

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

Students should take the core modules outlined plus two or three options in German (depending whether you are a non-native or native German speaker). Those studying beginners' German (ab initio) take a different, specially-designed core language module.

In your first year you will take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in Film Studies.

German

If you are an ab initio student in your first year you are required to take the following modules:

• Introductory German (30 credits)
• Texts & Contexts for ab initio (30 credits)
• One Hundred & Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)

If you are a non-native German speaker, in your first year you are required to take in your first year you are required to take the following modules:

• German Core Language I (30 credits)
• Texts & Contexts (30 credits)
• One Hundred & Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)

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

• Texts & Contexts (30 credits)
• Translation from & into German I (15 credits)
• One Hundred and Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your first year, you are required to take:

• Introduction to Film Studies: Forms (15 credits)
• Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts (15 credits)

German

In additon you are rquired to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Milestones of German History (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

In additon you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Milestones of German History (15 credits)
• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature and Society (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

In addition you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules which may typicaly include:

• Milestones of German History (15 credits)
• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature & Society (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

Film Studies

There are no optional Film Studies modules for your first year.

2nd Year

In your second year you will take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in Film Studies.

German

You are required to take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some premodern content from a range of modules, which may typically include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender & Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

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

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

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

• German Core Language II (30 credits)

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

• Translation from & into German II (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your second year there are no required modules.

German

Ab initio and non-native German speakers are also required to take 45 credits chosen from optional modules, and native German speakers are required to take 60 credits from the same range of optional modules, which may include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• Politics & Culture in Cold War Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• Marketing the Margins: Case Studies in the Literary Marketplace (15 credits)
• A Global Metropolis: London in German Literature & Film (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your second year, you will take 30 credits from a range of optional modules, which may include:

• Asian Popular Cinemas (15 credits)
• Cinema & Spectatorship (15 credits)
• Chinese Cinemas (15 credits)
• Authorship & Creativity in the Cinema (15 credits)
• Film Forms (eg: Documentary Film, Avant-garde Cinema) (15 credits)
• The French New Wave (15 credits)
• Italian Neo-Realism (15 credits)
• Contemporary European Cinema (15 credits)
• Topics in World Cinema (15 credits)
• Contemporary Spanish Cinema (15 credits)

This is normally spent in Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland, either as a student at one of our Erasmus partner institutions, as a language teaching assistant, or on an approved work placement. We have links with universities in Munich, Frankfurt (Main), Berlin, Heidelberg, Mannheim and Vienna under the European Erasmus-Socrates scheme.

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 or 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.

4th Year

In your fourth year you will take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in Film Studies.

German

You are required to take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range which may typically include:

• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th & 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• Death & the Afterlife in Medieval & Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then & Now (15 credits)

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student, you are also required to take the following module:

• German Core Language III (30 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your fourth year, you are also required to take the following module:

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your fourth year, there are no required modules.

German

Ab initio and non-native speaking German students are required to take 45 credits from a range of optional German modules, and native German speakers are required to take 60 credits from the same range, which may include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (15 credits)
• Cinema of Entanglement: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East & West (15 credits)
• Germany in Motion: Migration, Integration & Political Transformation (15 credits)

Film Studies

You will take 30 credits from a wide variety of optional modules, which may typically include:

• American Underground Cinema (15 credits)
• Cinema & Social Formations (15 credits)
• Fathers in Film (15 credits)
• Film & Architecture (15 credits)
• Film & Religion (15 credits)
• Film & Transnationalism (East Asian Focus) (15 credits)
• Film Genre: Hollywood Musical (15 credits)
• Film Noir (15 credits)
• Stardom & Performance (15 credits)
• The Biopic: Historical Lives & Biographical Screen Practices (15 credits)
• Third Cinema & Beyond (15 credits)