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BA English and German (ELLU07)     ML

2019 - 2020

For students whose initial registration was prior to the 2019-20 session
 
 

Year 1

Year 2


A student will take either 2A (Post A-level German Stream) or 2B (Non A-level German Stream)


units (20 credits)
2Ai
Post A-level German Stream
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GER201  German Language (Foundation) AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
GER202  German Language (Continuation) SPR SEM 10 credits

A student will take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following, with not more than 20 credits being selected from 2Aiii

AND

units (20 credits)
2Aii
Post A-level German Stream
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 credits from this group.

Semester 2
GER234  Germanic Languages in Social Context SPR SEM 20 credits
MDL208  Analysing Evil: National Socialism as Ideology and Brand SPR SEM 20 credits

Full academic year
GER235  Introduction to Luxembourgish Language and Culture ACAD YR 20 credits
GER263  German Culture and Ideas from the Enlightenment to the Present Day ACAD YR 20 credits
MDL209  Deutschland und Oesterreich heute ACAD YR 20 credits
AND

units
2Aiii
Post A-level German Stream
A student will take up to 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GER217  Dutch Beginners A AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
GER218  Dutch Beginners B SPR SEM 10 credits

Full academic year
GER232  Dutch Intermediate ACAD YR 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
2Bi
Non A-level German Stream
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GER240  Intermediate German Language AUT SEM 10 credits
GER242  Deutsche Politik und Medien (for Intermediate German) AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
GER241  Intermediate German Language II SPR SEM 10 credits
GER243  Deutsche Kultur (for Intermediate German) SPR SEM 10 credits
AND

units
2Bii
Non A-level German Stream
A student will take up to 40 credits from this group.

Semester 2
GER234  Germanic Languages in Social Context SPR SEM 20 credits
MDL208  Analysing Evil: National Socialism as Ideology and Brand SPR SEM 20 credits

Full academic year
GER235  Introduction to Luxembourgish Language and Culture ACAD YR 20 credits
GER263  German Culture and Ideas from the Enlightenment to the Present Day ACAD YR 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
2C
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LIT204  Criticism and Literary Theory AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT234  Renaissance Literature AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LIT2000  Genre SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT207  Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units
2D
A student will take up to 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH202  The History of Persuasion AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL240  Historical Linguistics AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT204  Criticism and Literary Theory AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT226  The Novella and the Uncanny AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT233  Road Journeys in American Culture: 1930-2000 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT234  Renaissance Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT257  Shakespeare on Film AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT272  Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT273  Creative Writing Prose Fiction 2 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT276  New Realisms: Contemporary British Cinema AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT277  Chaucer AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH207  Writing the Real SPR SEM 20 credits
EGH223  Radical Texts: transforming performance, 1920s to the present SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL225  Exiles and Monsters: An Introduction to Old English SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT2000  Genre SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT207  Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT219  Creative Writing Poetry 2 SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT224  Representing the Holocaust SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT248  Irish Fiction SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT254  Christopher Marlowe SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT255  John Donne SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT274  The Postcolonial Bildungsroman SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT275  Literature, Ecology, Capital SPR SEM 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F5 units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 3


3

Before proceeding to the final year a student will spend one session in an appropriate country, as an English assistant in a school, in attendance as a full time student at a university or other approved institution or gaining appropriate academic or professional experience, the arrangements being subject to the approval of the Head of School.


units (80 credits)
3A
in respect of attendance for which no grades will be awarded.
A student will take

Semester 1
GER3900  Germanic Studies Year Abroad AUT SEM 40 credits

Semester 2
GER3901  Germanic Studies Year Abroad SPR SEM 40 credits

units (40 credits)
3B
A student will take

Semester 1
MDL306  SLC Year Abroad AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
MDL307  SLC Year Abroad SPR SEM 20 credits

3C

Grades awarded in respect of units listed in 3B will carry the same weight as grades awarded at Level 2.

Year 4


units (10 credits)
4A
A student will take

Full academic year
GER335  German Core Language ACAD YR 10 credits

units (10 credits)
4B
A student will take 10 credits from this group.

Full academic year
GER336  German Translation ACAD YR 10 credits
GER337  Presenting and Debating in German ACAD YR 10 credits

4C

A student will take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following, with not more than 20 credits being selected from each of 4Cii and 4Ciii

AND

units (20 credits)
4Ci
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MDL309  Luxury and Liberty: Germany and Britain AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
GER374  Modern German Thought SPR SEM 20 credits

Full academic year
GER339  German for Enterprise ACAD YR 20 credits
GER379  The Self and Other: Twentieth Century German Fiction ACAD YR 20 credits
AND

units
4Cii
A student will take up to 20 credits from this group.

Full academic year
GER321  Dutch Advanced ACAD YR 20 credits
GER322  Dutch Language and Culture for Specialists ACAD YR 20 credits
GER323  Introduction to Luxembourgish Language and Culture ACAD YR 20 credits
GER324  Advanced Luxembourgish Language and Culture ACAD YR 20 credits
GER333  Dutch Intermediate ACAD YR 20 credits
AND

units
4Ciii
A student will take up to 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MDL301  Social Approaches to Multilingualism AUT SEM 20 credits

Full academic year
MDL304  Dissertation ACAD YR 20 credits
MDL305  Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages ACAD YR 20 credits

4D

A student will take a minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following

AND

units (20 credits)
4Di
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LIT3100  Romantic and Victorian Poetry AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3101  Romantic and Victorian Prose AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LIT302  Modern Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT303  Contemporary Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
4Dii
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LIT3000  America and the Avant-Garde, 1950's-1990's AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3015  Writing Fiction 3 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3023  Crime and Transgression in Romantic Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3048  Women Playwrights on the International Stage: 1880s-1930s AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT305  Afro-American Literature 1: Beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3056  Byron and Shelley AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3060  War on Screen AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3063  Creative Writing Poetry 3 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3065  The Brontës AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3100  Romantic and Victorian Poetry AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3101  Romantic and Victorian Prose AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
ELL360  Historical Pragmatics SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT302  Modern Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT303  Contemporary Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3042  Re-imagining Shakespeare SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3050  No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Module: Animals in Film SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3053  Project Module SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3057  Fin de siècle Gothic SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3061  Sex and Decadence in Restoration Theatre SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3066  Identity/ Crisis: Trauma, Narrative, Self SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT386  Dissertation SPR SEM 20 credits

 
 
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