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MA English and German

University of Aberdeen

Institution
University of Aberdeen
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English and German
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
RQ32
Typical offer
A-level BBC, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.

About this course

MA in English and German. Core topics include Communication & Writing, and Research Methods. Students spend half of year three abroad as a teaching assistant or visiting student in a German-speaking country.

Modules

  • Academic Writing for Language & Literature
  • Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
  • Acts of Reading
  • German for Beginners 1
  • German for Beginners 2
  • Background to German for Beginners 1
  • Background to German for Beginners 2
  • German Language 1
  • German Language 2
  • Modern German Culture 1
  • Modern German Culture 2
  • Rethinking Reading
  • Controversial Classics
  • Encounters with Shakespeare
  • Modern German Culture 3
  • Modern German Culture 4
  • German Language (Advanced Introductory) 1
  • German Language (Advanced Introductory) 2
  • German Language 3
  • German Language 4
  • German Junior Honours Language Study
  • Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
  • Writing Revolt: Literature and Politics in the Seventeenth Century (EL35EJ)
  • Romanticism (EL35XR)
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
  • Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL35SB)
  • Bildungsroman to Alien Invasion (EL35VB)
  • Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
  • Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
  • Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL30UT)
  • Queer Times (EL35WC)
  • Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL35YB)
  • Classical Epic (EL30EH)
  • Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL30VC)
  • English Dissertation
  • Dissertation in German
  • German Language Study for Senior Honours