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German with English with a year abroad

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BA

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Full Time

| UCAS code: R2Q3
Currently, students study the following core modules. If there are options available the current choices are also shown. King's reviews its optional modules 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 Department(s) for further advice. The third year of this programme is spent in Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland, normally as a student at university or as a teaching assistant in a school. We have exchange links with universities in Munich, Frankfurt (Main), Berlin and Vienna (under the European Socrates-Erasmus scheme).

YEAR 1

You should take the core modules outlined plus two options in English and two or three options in German (depending whether you are a non-native or native German speaker).



YEAR 1 CORE

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)



YEAR 1 OPTIONS
German
Milestones of German History
One Hundred Years on German Cinema
Medieval Germany: Language, Litertaure and Society
German Politics and Society

English
Aspects of Language
Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature
Introducing Literary Theories
Medieval Literary Culture
Reading Poetry
Renaissance Literature
Writing London


YEAR 2

You should take the core module outlined plus two options in English and four or five options in German (depending whether you are non-native or native German speaker).



YEAR 2 CORE

German

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



YEAR 2 OPTIONS
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  

English
  • A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean London
  • Australian Literature & Film
  • Creative Writing: the Novel
  • Cultural Encounters: Literature & Language in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Early Modern Sexualities
  • Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing
  • First World War Literature
  • History, Politics & the Elizabethan Imagination
  • Irish Literature & Culture
  • Language of Dance
  • Modernist Fiction
  • Rise of the Novel
  • Narrating the Nation
  • Performance in Medieval Culture
  • Romanticism, Revolution & Representation 1776-1832
  • Shakespeare in London
  • Subjects of Desire in Medieval Religious Writings
  • The Fin de Siecle
  • Theatre Capital
  • Victorians & Social Change 1840-1870


YEAR 3

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 and Vienna under the European Erasmus-Socrates scheme.



YEAR 4

Students should take the core modules outlined plus two options in English and up to three options in German.



YEAR 4 CORE
German

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


YEAR 4 OPTIONS
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

English
  • Ancient Lyric & Poetry
  • Autobiography & Modern Self-Representation
  • Beowulf: Heroes & Other Monsters
  • British Literature & Film
  • Court Cultures in the Age of Elizabeth I
  • Creative Writing: Drama
  • Critically Queer: Literature, Culture & Queer Theory
  • Elizabethan Shakespeare 
  • Gender & Performance
  • Imagined Worlds, 
  • Jacobean Shakespeare 
  • James Joyce & Ulysses 
  • Jane Austen in Context
  • Literature & Impressionism
  • Medieval Body in Pain, 
  • Medieval Romance, 
  • Memory & Time in the 19th Century
  • Performance Philosophy
  • Post Colonial Australian Literature
  • Post Colonial Perspectives

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