BA German and History of Art
Description:
This combined degree allows many possible links between the subjects studied. Within German Studies at Reading many specialist modules are offered throughout the degree on subjects that span from the eighteenth century to the contemporary period, with the main focus on modern history, culture, politics, cinema and language. These will inform your exploration in History of Art of visual culture within its social context. During the year spent abroad you have the opportunity to further develop your knowledge of art and architecture at a university in Germany or Austria or to work on a related placement in a German-speaking country.
Year 1
German Language (Advanced/Intermediate/Beginners)
Icons of Modern Germany
History of Art and Architecture Workshop
Optional modules including:
Art's Histories: a survey
Makers and making: artist, architects and their practices
The Inner Life of the German Language
Interpreting Historical Documents
Literary Reflections of Historical Events
The German Nazi Past and the Present
Year 2
German Language
Study Trip abroad
Distance and Difference: perspectives on art, architecture and visual culture
Optional modules including:
Bertolt Brecht and the Drama of Revolt
Words in Action? An Introduction to linguistic pragmatics
East German Cinema
War, Hell and Family: Catastrophe in the Romantic Period
Feminism, Gender & Class in 19th century Germany
The World of Words: German Lexicology
Women and Biography in GDR Literature
Changing Media, Changing Texts
Art and power in renaissance Italy
Altars, aristocrats and guillotines
Heroes and hero worship
Other Visions: Modern and contemporary art and architecture
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
German Oral
Dissertation for History of Art
Final Year
Choice of German language modules:
Translation into German and English
German Structure & Composition
Optional Modules including:
Writing the East: Literature of the GDR
Cinema of the Weimar Republic
Migration in Germany
Language in Politics
Nineteenth-century Vienna
Brunelleschi and Renaissance architecture
Palladio: architecture and science
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