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BA German and History (GERU08)     ML

2019 - 2020

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

Year 1

Year 2


units (20 credits)
2A
A student will take

Semester 1
HST202  Historians and History AUT SEM 20 credits

2B

A student will take either 2B (Post A-Level German Stream) or 2C (Non A-Level German Stream).


units (20 credits)
2Bi
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 2Bii and 2Biii, with not more than 20 credits being selected from 2Biii.

AND

units (20 credits)
2Bii
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
2Biii
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)
2Ci
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
2Cii
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 (20 credits)
2Di
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
AAP243  The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2010  The Myth of Venice AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2011  The Medieval Inquisition AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2028  Tenochtitlan, City of Blood and Flowers: Aztec society in the early sixteenth century AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2030  Appeasement, the Munich Crisis and the British People AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2041  Murder in the cathedral: the Becket Affair AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2042  Religion in an Age of Terror: Ancient Texts and the Making of Modern Israel. AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2046  The Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-85 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2512  Shell-Shock to Prozac: Mental Health in Britain AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2516  The Rise of Rome and its Empire (c.500-90 BCE) AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2520  Revolution, Reform and Crusade in 11th-c. Europe AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2522  Gender in Britain in the Long Eighteenth-Century AUT SEM 20 credits
HST255  Social Crisis and Political Change in England, 1550-1640 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST297  The History of American Foreign Relations AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
AAP240  The Celtic West: from the fall of Rome to the Viking Age SPR SEM 20 credits
AAP241  The Ancient Greek Economy SPR SEM 20 credits
EAS2034  Modern Japanese History SPR SEM 20 credits
HST209  Writing History SPR SEM 20 credits
HST230  The Family in Late Antiquity: Romans, Barbarians and Christians SPR SEM 20 credits
HST247  A Protestant Nation? Religion, Politics and Culture in England 1560-1640 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2504  Two Germanys, 'One People'? Central Europe, 1945-1990 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2513  Trumpism: An American Biography SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2514  Decolonisation: The End of Empire & the Future of the World SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2517  Culture in Early Modern Europe SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2519  Empire, Sexuality and the Family in Modern Europe SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2521  From the Pharaohs to Alexander the Great: The Battle for the Ancient World SPR SEM 20 credits
HST265  The Making of Modern India, 1780-1965 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST287  From World War to Cold War: Europe 1945-1968 SPR SEM 20 credits

2Dii

A student taking at least 40 credits from 2Di may choose to take 20 of these credits from unrestricted F5 units.


2Diii

A student taking HST209, must attach this to another taught HST module.

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 at 3B above 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 and a maximum of 60 credits from the following, with not more than 20 credits being selected from 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

 There are three routes through the History element of Level 4.

 

  • Students taking a 'History Minor' route (80 credits German/40 credits History) will take 40 credits from either 4D or 4E.
  • Students taking a 'History Major' route (40 credits German/80 credits History) will take 40 credits from each of 4D or 4F, and 4E.
  • All other students (60 credits German/60 credits History) will take either (i) 20 credits from 4D and 40 credits from 4E, or (ii) 60 credits from 4D

 

AND

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

Semester 1
HST3304  Money, Power and Society AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3306  A Comparative History of Revolution AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3307  Conflict, Cultures and (De)Colonisation AUT SEM 20 credits
AND

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

Semester 2
HST398  Short Dissertation SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

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

Semester 2
HST3000  The Uses of History SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
4E
(Note - these units are linked pairs and must be taken together e.g HST3027 and HST3028 are co-requisites)
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HST3027  Stalinism and De-Stalinisation, 1929-1961 I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3071  The Weimar Republic - Laboratory of Modernity I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3085  Art, Power and History: Ideals and Reality in Renaissance Florence I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3095  Permissive Britain? Social and Cultural Change 1956-74 I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3122  Britain's Social Revolution: Welfare, State and Society, c. 1870-1914 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3136  The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3142  Merchants, Mariners and Migrants: The English Overseas, 1570-1624 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3150  Mao and the Making of Twentieth-Century China AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3176  The American War in Vietnam, 1945-1975 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3178  Resistance & Liberation in South Africa: Gandhi to Mandela AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3182  Humour and Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Britain AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3184  From Julius Caesar to Augustus: Rome's Revolution (89 BC-14 AD) AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3190  Slavery in the American South, 1789-1861 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3192  Empire of Faith: The Making of Global Catholicism, 1500-1700 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST384  The Spanish Civil War I AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
HST3028  Stalinism and De-Stalinisation, 1929-1961 II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3072  The Weimar Republic - Laboratory of Modernity II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3086  Art, Power and History: Ideals and Reality in Renaissance Florence II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3096  Permissive Britain? Social and Cultural Change 1956-74 II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3123  Britain's Social Revolution: Welfare, State and Society, c. 1870-1914 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3137  The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3143  Merchants, Mariners and Migrants: The English Overseas, 1570-1624 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3151  Mao and the Making of Twentieth-Century China SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3177  The American War in Vietnam, 1945-1975 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3179  Resistance & Liberation in South Africa: Gandhi to Mandela SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3183  Humour and Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Britain SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3185  From Julius Caesar to Augustus: Rome's Revolution (89 BC-14 AD) SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3191  Slavery in the American South, 1789-1861 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3193  Empire of Faith: The Making of Global Catholicism, 1500-1700 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST385  The Spanish Civil War II SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units
4F
A student will take up to 40 credits from this group.

Full academic year
HST399  Dissertation ACAD YR 40 credits

 
 
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