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Undergraduates

Undergraduates

GERMAN STUDIES OPENING LECTURE INFORMATION

Level 1


Post A-Level

  • German Language and Culture (Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading)

  • Language of Media, Politics and Advertising

  • German History

Post AS-Level

  • Intensive German Language for Post-AS-Level Students

Beginners

  • Intensive German Language for Beginners and Post-GCSE Students

Optional Modules

For all streams joint honours students will take one of the following modules, major students will take both:

  • German Culture and Society 1 (Literature and Film)

  • German Culture and Society 2 (Literature and Film)

 

Level 2                                For Level 2 Registration Information please click here.

  • German Language (Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading)

  • Contemporary German Society and Culture

  • Contemporary Austrian Society and Culture

  • History of Ideas 1

 Additionally students will have the option of choosing a six-week course in:

  • German Literature

            OR

  • The German Business World

Year Abroad

  • Teaching assistant at a German School

  • Placement at a German of Austrian University

  • Industrial Placement with a German Company



Level 3                                    For Level 3 Registration Information please click here.

  • German Language (Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading)

  • German Cultural studies: Children's literature 

  • History of Ideas 2

Additionally students will have the option of choosing a 12-week course in:

  • German Literature

            OR

  • German Business Project

 

Optional Modules

Joint Honours students will choose one module at Stage 2 and one at Stage 3, Major students will take two modules at Stage 2 and again at Stage 3:

Level 2 and  Level 3:

  • 110GER309 German Cinema

  •  210GER318: Experimental Prose in the early 20th Century

  • 110GER303 Dissertation

  • 110GER306 German Comical Drama

  • 110GER314 German Political Song

  • 210DRA341 Bertolt Brecht - Theory and Practice

  • 210GER307 Post War Novel

Not all modules are available at any given time.


Residence Abroad

The third year of the degree course is usually spent in a German speaking country. Not only is this an ideal opportunity to consolidate language skills, but it also offers the chance to experience at first hand the vibrant cultural and social life of Germany or Austria. Placements may be as a language assistant at a school, a work  placements may be as a language assistant at a school, a work placement with a company (Siemens in Stuttgart, Audi in Ingolstadt or Bosch in Stuttgart) or as a student at a university. 

Foreign Links

We have several Erasmus links with universities abroad. We are at present associated with the University of Salzburg (Austria), the University of Leipzig (Germany), and the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and students may fulfil part of their course requirements in one of these centres.