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German with Film Studies with a year abroad

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BA

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Full Time

| UCAS code: R2P3
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.

YEAR 1

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).



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)

Film Studies
Introduction to Film Studies: Forms
Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts


YEAR 1 OPTIONS

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



YEAR 2

Students should take the core module outlined plus two options in Film Studies 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

Film Studies

  • Asian Popular Cinemas
  • Cinema & Spectatorship
  • Film Authorship
  • Film Forms (eg Documentary Film)
  • The French New Wave
  • Italian Cinema
  • Spanish Cinema
  • Topics in European Cinema or Topics in World Cinema


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 Film Studies 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 

Film Studies
  • American Underground Cinema or American Independent Cinema
  • Film & Trans-nationalism
  • Film Genre, Style & Ideology
  • Film Noir or The European Crime Film
  • Representation & Identity in Film
  • Stardom & Performance
  • Third Cinema & Beyond

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