German & Modern Greek Studies with a year abroad
|BA
|Full Time
| UCAS code: RR29You should take the core modules plus a choice of options in Modern Greek. Native German speakers also choose one optional German module. (This is because their German language module is worth 15 credits, rather than the 30-credit core language module taken by non-native speakers.)
German
Texts and Contexts: an introduction to German literature and culture (compulsory)
AND
German Language Core Module I (non-native speakers only)
OR
Translation from and into German I (native speakers only)
Greek
Modern Greek Language
Modern Greek
The Emergence & Development of Modern Greece
Reading modern poetry comparatively (Greek/English)
From Late Antiquity to Byzantium
Ours once more: perceptions of the past in the Greek world
You should take the core modules outlined plus a choice of options in Modern Greek, and two or three options in German (depending on whether you are a non-native or native German speaker).
German
German Core Language Module II (non-native speakers)
OR
Translation from and into German II (native speakers)
The German Reformation
Women in the early modern period: representations and responses
German Realist fiction in the nineteenth century
History into literature
Modernism and the Avant-garde
A year in the life of German-language film
Politics and popular culture in Germany after 1870
Germany since 1945: politics, society, economics
18th-century German thought: the education of humanity
Language and mind
Modern Greek
Modern Greek Language
The novels of Nikos Kazantzakis
Modernity and the nation in Greek fiction since 1922
Greek society and politics, 1922-1950
Language varieties and sociolinguistics
Byzantine saints
History of the Byzantine Empire I (641-867): From Survival to Revival
History of the Byzantine Empire II (867-1055): The Apogee
History of the Byzantine Empire III (1055-1261): Challenge and renewal
History of the Byzantine Empire IV (1261-1453): Fragmentation and Fall
You should take the core modules plus up to three optional modules in German and a choice of options in Modern Greek, which could include a dissertation.
German
German Language Core Module III (non-native speakers)
OR
Translation from and into German III (native speakers)
Structure and usage of contemporary German
The Nibelungenlied: from the twelfth to the twentieth century
Religion, sex and politics: German literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Goethe's Faust
Goethe: from Sturm und Drang to Classicism
Heinrich Heine
Kafka
Aspects of post-1945 German fiction
The Third Reich in the post-war German novel
Modern German poetry
Brechtian cinema and political modernism
Power and everyday life in the GDR
German reunification: culture and politics
Politics and everyday life in twentieth-century Germany
Government politics and public policy in Germany
German gender politics
Constructing Europe — identities and a European demos
Extended essay (This option is worth 30 credits, and therefore counts as a double module.)
Modern Greek Language
Dissertation
War in Greek poetry 1897-1981
Modernity and tradition in Greece (19th-20th centuries)
Text and discourse analysis
Constantine and his Historians
Describing Constantinople
Medicine and society in the ancient world
Medicine and society in the medieval world
