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MA English and German (5 years)

University of Aberdeen

Institution
University of Aberdeen
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English and German (5 years)
Duration
5 years
UCAS code
QR32
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

An MA in English and German, combining English and German. Core topics include Research Methods and Communication & Writing. This five-year undergraduate degree includes a compulsory third year spent abroad in a German-speaking country as either a teaching assistant or a visiting student.

Modules

  • Academic Writing for Language & Literature
  • Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
  • Acts of Reading
  • German for Beginners 1
  • German for Beginners 2
  • German Language 1
  • German Language 2
  • Modern German Culture 1
  • Background to German for Beginners 1
  • Controversial Classics
  • Rethinking Reading
  • The Global City in Text and Film
  • Encounters with Shakespeare
  • Modern German Culture 3
  • The Global City in Text and Film
  • German Language (Advanced Introductory) 1
  • German Language (Advanced Introductory) 2
  • German Language 3
  • German Language 4
  • The Tragedy of Knowledge
  • Power, Empire and Equality
  • German Junior Honours Language Study
  • Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
  • Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
  • Romanticism (EL30XR)
  • Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL35SB)
  • Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL35VC)
  • Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
  • American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
  • Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
  • Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
  • German Language Study for Senior Honours
  • English Dissertation
  • Dissertation in German