BA German and Italian

Description:
This combination is a strong choice for anybody interested in foreign languages and cultures and considering working with these in the future. There are clear advantages to studying two languages and cultures together because of the connections between them. Studying both subjects in the same department will provide a coherent experience with plenty of opportunity for intercultural encounter.
Year 1

German Language (Advanced/Intermediate/Beginners)
Italian Language (Advanced/Intermediate/Beginners)
Icons of Modern Germany
Twentieth-century Italian culture
Optional Modules
The Inner Life of the German Language
Interpreting Historical Documents
Literary Reflections of Historical Events
The German Nazi Past and the Present
Italian Medieval and Renaissance Culture (in translation)
Making Italians

Year 2

German Language
Italian Language
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
History of the Italian Language
Italian Cinema
Italian History and Society since 1945
Intelectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
Contemporary Italian Literature
Writing Women in Renaissance Italy

Year 3

Year Abroad
(A semester at a German university followed by a semester at a university in Italy).
German Oral
Dissertation

Final Year

Choice of German language modules:
Translation into German and English
German Structure & Composition
Advanced Italian Language
Optional Modules including:
Writing the East: Literature of the GDR
Cinema of the Weimar Republic
Migration in Germany
Language in Politics
Nineteenth-century Vienna
Dante
European Cinema
Voice and the Self in Modern Italian Poetry 1900s-1980s
The South since 1860: Images and Reality
Court Culture in the Italian Renaissance 
Performance and the Self in Renaissance Italy
Italian and its varieties

 

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More Information:
Visit the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies website

UCAS Code: RR23

Mode & Duration: 4 years full and part time

Entry Requirements

UCAS Tariff:BBB/ABC from three A level subjects. Total points exclude Key Skills and General Studies.

Subjects: Grade B at A level or grade A* at GCSE in German or other Modern Foreign Language International Baccalaureate: Pass Diploma and achieve 6,5,5 in three higher level subjects and 5 in minimum Standard Level German

Deferred Entry available.

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