German & Philosophy with a year abroad

Currently, students study the following core modules (modules are 15 credits unless otherwise stated). We review our options on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the School/department for further advice.

You should take the core modules outlined below. 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)
 
Philosophy
Combined honours students choose from among our level 4 modules, which are:

Greek Philosophy I
Ethics I
Elementary Logic
Metaphysics I
Modern Philosophy I
Political Philosophy I
Epistemology I
Methodology

In the first year combined honours students must take at least one module in history of philosophy, at least one module in either ethics or political philosophy, and at least one module from among Elementary Logic, Metaphysics I, Epistemology I, and Methodology.

German (for native German speakers only)

• Milestones of German History
• One Hundred Years on German Cinema
• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature and Society
• German Politics and Society

You take the core module outlined below plus and two or three optional modules in German (depending on whether you are a non-native or native German speaker) and four in Philosophy.

German

German Core Language Module II (30 credits, non-native speakers)
OR
Translation from and into German II (15 credits, native speakers)

 

German

• 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

Philosophy
Students take four modules from the following lists, with the requirement to choose from at least two of the three lists:

List A

• Greek Philosophy II: Plato
• Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle
• Modern Philosophy II: Locke and Berkeley
• Modern Philosophy II: Spinoza and Leibniz

List B

• Ethics II: History of Ethical Philosophy
• Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy
• Political Philosophy II: Theories of Justice
• Political Philosophy II: History of Political Philosophy

List C

• Epistemology II
• Metaphysics II
• Philosophy of Logic and Language
• Philosophy of Mind

In the second year combined honours students may also take one 15 credit module from among level 6 optional subjects.

This is 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 and Vienna under the European Erasmus-Socrates scheme.

You take the core module outlined plus up to three options in German and a choice of four options in Philosophy. In Philosophy the available modules will change from year to year, but the modules listed below are likely to be offered in either the second or final year.

German

German Language Core Module III (non-native speakers)
OR
Translation from and into German III (native speakers)

German:

• Translation from and into German III
• 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
• Constructing Europe — identities and a European demos
• Extended essay (This option is worth 30 credits, and therefore counts as a double module.)

Philosophy

• Advanced Logic modules
• Aesthetics
• 20th Century Continental Philosophy
• Dissertation
• Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
• Greek Philosophical Texts
• Hellenistic Philosophy
• Indian Philosophy
• Kant
• Meaning and Grammar
• Medieval Philosophy
• Moral Normativity
• Neoplatonism
• Philosophy in the Islamic World
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy of Science
• Scepticism
• Science, Ethics and Society
• Topics in Ethics
• Topics in Greek Philosophy
• Topics in Modern Philosophy
• Topics in Philosophy of Mind
• Topics in Political Philosophy
• Utilitarianism