German modules

First-Year Modules (all 30 credits)

GE101 Modern German Language 1

GE103 Modern German Language for Beginners

GE112 Provincial - Pariah - Powerhouse: Reading German-language Culture in a Global Perspective

Intermediate-Year Modules

CORE MODULE

GE201 Modern German Language 2 (30 credits)

GE203 Modern German Language 2 (Post-beginners) (30 credits)

INTERMEDIATE-YEAR OPTIONAL MODULES IN 2026-27

Term 1 Modules (15 credits)

GE214 The Strange World of Franz Kafka's Short Stories

GE217 Film in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism

Term 2 Modules (15 credits)

GE212 Bertolt Brecht: Theatre as Revolution

GE220 Violent Women in the German Cultural Imagination

Final-Year Modules

CORE MODULE

GE401 Modern German Language 3 (30 credits)

FINAL-YEAR OPTIONAL MODULES IN 2026-27

Term 1 Modules (15 credits)

GE331 German Memories of WWII: From Perpetration to Suffering

GE339 Exploring Zeitgeist: Politics, Culture and Society in Germany Today

Term 2 Modules (15 credits)

GE332 The Self and the Others I: Identity, Gender and Ethnicity in German Culture around 1800

GE340 Representations of Love and Intimacy in Contemporary German Fiction and Film

Not running in 2026-27

INTERMEDIATE-YEAR OPTIONAL MODULES

GE207 Reason, Romantics and Reactions: Germany in the Age of Revolutions

GE211 Modernity and its Discontents

FINAL-YEAR OPTIONAL MODULES

GE302 German Terror and Cultural Memory

GE324 Reflections of National Socialism in Post-war German Writing

GE333 Germany and the Holocaust: Interpretations and Debates

GE338 Gender Trouble in Contemporary German Culture