BA Philosophy and German

Description:
This course will provide you with an in-depth understanding both of the society and culture of Germany and of crucial features of philosophical enquiry. You will also acquire a high level of competence in German language, and you will spend the third year studying or working in Germany or Austria.

In particular you will obtain:

• knowledge and understanding of a range of topics in the politics, history and culture of Germany (and Austria)
• a high level of competence in understanding, speaking and writing German
• an understanding of central philosophical problems, texts and figures,and of concepts essential for philosophical investigation
• critical awareness of fundamental beliefs about truth and reality, right and wrong
• familiarity with contemporary German or Austrian society and politics through spending the third year abroad

Year 1

German Language (Advanced/Intermediate/Beginners)
Icons of Modern Germany
Values and Virtues
Human Nature
Critical Thinking
Mind and World

Optional Modules
The Inner Life of the German Language
Interpreting Historical Documents
Literary Reflections of Historical Events
The German Nazi Past and the Present

Year 2

Theory of Knowledge
Moral Philosophy
German Language

Optional modules including:
Early Modern Philosophy I/II
Introductory Logic
Plato & Aristotle
Philosophy of Mind
Aesthetics
Contemporary Political Philosophy
Language & Reality

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

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 Philosophy

Final Year

Either: Translation into German and English
or: German Structure and Composition

Optional Modules including:
Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Natural Science
Philosophy of Religion
Further Logic
Marx and Marxism
Personal identity & the Self
Ethics and Animals
Contemporary Moral Theory
Metaethics
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche & Sartre
Philosophy of Crime & Punishment
Philosophy of Social Science
Environmental Ethics

Cinema of the Weimar Republic
Writing the East: Literature of the GDR
Migration in Germany
Language in Politics
Nineteenth-Century Vienna