Course description
Course content
The main options are:
-German literary and cultural studies, especially 19th and early 20th-century.
-German thought and intellectual history.
-Modern German politics, society and history, especially post-war political culture and East-German politics.
-German and Germanic linguistics, including spoken language research and dialectology.
-Dutch Studies and Luxembourg Studies.
We also contribute to interdisciplinary MA programmes incorporating a degree of specialisation in Germanic studies.
In the MA in Critical Theory and Modern Languages, you can take up to two-thirds of your modules in Germanic studies, with a focus on German cultural and literary theory, and/or modern German literature.
We offer optional German modules as part of the MA programmes in European Theatre and 19th-century Studies.