Course description
This is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.
Typical First Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
-Aufbausprachkurs
-German Studies - Aufbaukurs
-German Studies - Basiskurs
-Grundsprachkurs
-History of the United States of America 1776-2004
-Pagans, Christians and Heretics in Medieval Europe
-The Disenchantment of the European World
-The Making of the Twentieth Century
-The Transformation of Britain, 1800 to the Present
Typical Second Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Historians and History
-German Language (Continuation)
-German Language (Foundation)
-A Fragile Freedom Won: The African American Experience 1865-1955
-Cold War America
-Colonising America: Europeans and the New World, 1450-1763
-Contesting Power: Social and Political Thought in History
-Decolonisation: Britain's Retreat from Empire
-Disease, Medicine and Health Care in Early Modern Europe
-Dutch Advanced
-Fascism 1918-1945
-France 1870-1940: Nation Building from Revolution to Military Collapse
-From World War to Cold War: Europe 1945-1968
-Frontiers and Failures: Lost Nations of the Eightenth-Century
-Gender and Sexuality on Modern Britain, 1850 to the Present
-Gender, Culture and Society in Britain 1650-1850
-Gender, Culture and Society: Britain 1689 - 1837
-German Culture and Ideas from the Enlightenment to the Present Day
-Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
-Imperialism and Resistance in South Asia, c.1885-1947
-Introduction to German Linguistics
-Media and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain
-Nederlandse Taalvaardigheid en Cultuur
-Poor Law to Welfare State: Social Change in Britain since 1800
-Sacred Violence in the Medieval Mediterranean
-Sacred Violence in the Medieval Mediterranean
-Southern Africa in the Wider World, 1850-1919
-Spain, 1917-1982
-The Carolingians and the Birth of Europe
-The European Reformation
-The Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
-The International History of the State
-The Origins of the American Civil War, 1848-1861
-The Origins of the Second World War: The Failure of Collective Security 1919-1939
-The Struggle for England's Soul: Politics, Religion and Cultural Conflict 1560-1640
-Tolerance and Dissent in Europe (12th - 16th Centuries)
-Warriors, Saints and Heroes in Early Medieval Britain
-Aspects of Modern German Drama
-Dutch Beginners A
-Dutch Beginners B
-Freud's Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies
-German Film and Society
-History and Dialectology of the German Language
-Images of Women in German Literature
-Language and Literature in the German Middle Ages
-Maternalism and Militarism: 1871-1918
-Medien und Oeffentlichkeit
-Oesterreich Heute
-Politik und Gesellschaft in Deutschland
Typical Third Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Germanic Studies Year Abroad
-Germanic Studies Year Abroad
-German Year Abroad (Project)
-German Year Abroad (Project)
Typical Fourth Year Modules
Module/Unit
-The Uses of History
-German Language Part 1
-German Language Part 2
Also available:
- BA German and Linguistics
- BA German and Management )
- BA German and Music
- BA German and Philosophy
- BA German and Politics
- BA German and Russian
- BA German with Czech
- BA German with Dutch
- BA German with Polish
- BA Germanic Studies with Japanese
