BA German and History of Art

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University of Reading, School of Languages & European Studies

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• Objectives
  Combining the study of German with the History of Art is an exciting choice that enables you to gain a thorough understanding of German language, society and culture and of the power and influence of images. Although most students have studied German to A level there are also intensive language courses in the first year for intermediate (post-GCSE) and complete beginners; those students also get extra language tuition in year 2 to help them bridge the gap.
• Entry requirements
  300 points from three A levels or 320 points from 3 A levels and one AS level. Total points exclude Key Skills and General Studies. Subjects: Candidates must have either A level German or A at GCSE. Candidates with an A at GCSE can enter the programme by following an intermediate German language module. Candidates who have not studied German but have a modern foreign language A level can enter the programme by following beginners German language modules.
• Academic title
  BA German and History of Art
• Course description
  This BA in German and History of Art involves the following modules.
  
  Year 1
  
  -German Language
  -Icons of Modern Germany
  -History of Art and Architecture Workshop
  
  -Art's Histories: a survey
  -Makers and making: artist, architects and their practices
  
  Year 2
  
  -German Language
  -Study Trip abroad
  -Distance and difference: perspectives on art, architecture and visual culture
  
  -Works by Brecht or Dürrenmatt or Schlink
  -East German Cinema
  -The language of political debate
  -Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
  -War, hell and family
  -Goethe and the 'Sturm und Drang'
  -Frederick the Great
  -Art and power in fifteenth-century Italy
  -Altars, aristocrats and guillotines.
  -Aspects of Baroque, Rococo and Neo-Classical art and architecture
  -Heroes and hero worship
  -Modern art and architecture, and its discontents
  
  Year 3
  
  Year Abroad
  The choice of one of the following:
  - studying at a German or Austrian University
  - working as a Teaching Assistant at a German or Austrian school
  - on a work placement with a German or Austrian firm
  
  Final Year
  
  -Choice of German language modules
  -Advanced German Translation
  -Structure and Composition
  
  -Migration and minorities in Germany
  -Nineteenth century Vienna
  -Trends in modern German language
  -Unification and the integration of the GDR
  -Germany in the age of revolution
  -Cinema of the Weimar Republic
  -Modern German narrartives
  -Immortalising the body: images of chivalry and devotion
  -Brunelleschi and Renaissance architecture
  -Palladio: architecture and science
  -Italian Renaissance portraiture
  -Annibale Carracci and painting in Rome 1590-11623
  -Delacroix, Romanticism and French nineteenth-century painting
  -Goya: reason and superstition in the Spanish Enlightenment
  -Figuring the female body
  -Landscape art in Britain and France: place and meaning
  -Art, war and gender in the twentieth century
  -Bodies of difference: mapping contemporary art
  -Space and the place: architecture and the monument
  -Museum theory, history and ethics
  -Object analysis and museum interpretation

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