MA German and English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: from AAA to ABB (required: English Literature or combined English at B) IB: 34 points with 655 at HL
About this course
MA (Hons) in German and English Literature, a joint honours degree centred on English Literature and German. The curriculum includes a full academic year abroad, which students spend studying or working across destinations such as Berlin, Vienna, or Leipzig. The first year covers foundational study through poetry, drama, prose, and linguistics and English language. The second year introduces thematic topics such as Researching Disability in German Literature and Society, Culture, Modernity and the City in the Weimar Republic, Reading Testimony in German, and Introduction to European Cinema. The third year is spent abroad undertaking study or work placements. The final year focuses on advanced linguistic and literary study through modules such as spoken German, essay and précis writing, Goethe and Schiller, and The Third Reich in Literature and Testimony, culminating in independent writing work.
Modules
- practise professional communication
- discover the value of languages in the workplace
- gain insights into possible career options
- poetry
- drama
- prose
- linguistics and English language
- business, economics and informatics
- politics, social policy, social anthropology and international relations
- art and architectural history
- history, classics and archaeology
- Celtic and Scottish ethnology
- philosophy, divinity and law
- Researching Disability in German Literature and Society
- Culture, Modernity and the City in the Weimar Republic
- Reading Testimony in German
- The Contemporary Short Story in German
- Screening Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity on the German Screen and Beyond
- German Colonialism: History, Memory, Controversy
- Cultural Responses to War
- Migration, Exile, Diaspora
- Crime and Detection in Literature
- Gender and Culture
- The Coming-of-Age Narrative
- Introduction to European Cinema
- Dynamics of Language and Power
- Languages Beyond University
- Berlin
- Augsburg
- Hamburg
- Heidelberg
- Tübingen
- Freiburg
- Leipzig
- Mainz
- Vienna
- study in one or two destinations
- work in one or two destinations
- study in one destination and work in another
- two semesters at a single institution
- one semester at two different institutions (in different destinations)
- arrange to work or volunteer with a private company or charity
- apply to an established placement scheme, such as the British Council’s English Language Assistants programme
- Student Wellbeing Service
- Student Counselling
- Student Disability and Learning Support
- University emergency helpline (available 24 hours a day)
- spoken German
- essay and précis writing
- German-to-English translation of literary and journalistic texts
- Bertolt Brecht
- From Girls in Uniform to Men in Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity on the German Screen
- Goethe and Schiller
- Identity and Self in Contemporary German Literature
- The Third Reich in Literature and Testimony
- Vulnerability and the City: German Literary Cartographies of Danger and Refuge