ObjectivesCombining 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 requirements300 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 titleBA German and History of Art
Course descriptionThis 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