Undergraduate
BA German
Structure
and Syllabus
BA: 12 units
(four Level 1 units, four Level 2 units plus four Level 3
units). In order to obtain the degree a student must pass in
a minimum of nine full units, at least three of which must
be from Level 3, and include the core language units at all
Levels. In any one year you may choose to enter examinations
in a minimum of one half unit and a maximum of four full
units (or half unit equivalent).
Level 1 (four
units)
One
compulsory core unit of practical language work:
German
language 1 [046G100] (full unit)
AND
six half units:
Modern German
history [046G135]
German essay
Truth,
language and art: key questions in the humanities [046G145]
Reading German
literature [046G150]
Gender and the
literary text I [046G185]
Gender and the
literary text II [046G190]
Level 2 (four
units)
One
compulsory core unit of practical language work:
German
language 2 [046G200] (full unit)
AND
six half units chosen from:
Ideals and
realities in German drama I [046G235]
Ideals and
realities in German drama II [046G236]
Narrative
strategies in German prose fiction I [046G245]
Narrative
strategies in German prose fiction II [046G246]
The Nazi
movement and the German dictatorship [046G295]
Introduction
to modern European philosophy [046G297]
Level 3 (four
units)
One
compulsory core unit of practical language work:
German
language 3 [046G300] (full unit)
AND units to
the value of three full units from the
following list of half and full unit options:
Schiller's
drama [046G360] (half unit)
German
Romanticism in the European context [046G362] (half unit)
Racism and
anti-Semitism [046G377] (half unit)
Vienna
1890-1910 [046G383] (half unit)
Literature and
the Wende [046G390] (half unit)
German
philosophy from Nietzsche to Habermas: The critique of
modern culture
Goethe [046G500] (half unit)
