Study Schemes

BA Modern German Studies [R200]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Single Honours scheme - available from 2002/2003

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Bursary;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Options

You must take HY12120 and either Advanced GE modules or Beginners GE modules as CORE:

Semester 1
GE10700

German Language (beginners)

GE19900

German Language Advanced

HY12120

Introduction To History

Semester 2
GE10740

German Language (beginners)

GE19930

German Language Advanced

Year 1 Options

You must take either EL10820 or GE10910 and you must also choose an additional 40-60 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction To European Film

EL10610

Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics

EL10800

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10900

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

GE10910

Ways Of Reading German Literature

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction To European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10920

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1
GE20100

German Language

Semester 2
GE20130

German Language

Year 2 Options

You must choose 50 credits of the following GE or EL modules and 40 credits of the following HY modules:

Semester 1
EL20500

Extended Essay Module

GE20420

An Introduction To Variation In German

GE21010

The Language Of Economics

HY30000

Historians And The Writing Of History 2

HY30510

Historians And The Writing Of History 1

HY38230

Weimar Germany:making+breaking Of German Democracy,1914-1933

Semester 2
EL20510

Extended Essay Module

GE27110

Short Prose In German

GE27220

German-speaking Refugees In Literature And Culture

HY30020

Historians And The Writing Of History 2

HY30610

Historians & The Writing Of History 1b

HY33520

Germans And Nazism Since 1933: Reading Public Opinion Surveys, Diaries And Memoirs

Year 3 Core (120 Credits)

Intercalary Year Abroad: You must either submit a 10,000 word dissertation upon your return, or, in approved cases, sumbit marks gained from examinations taken at university.

Semester 1
GES0000

Year Abroad Assessment

GES0100

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2
GES0060

Year Abroad Assessment

GES0160

Year Abroad Assessment

Year 4 Core (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1
GE30100

German Language

Semester 2
GE30130

German Language

Year 4 Options

You must choose 50 credits of the following GE or EL modules and 40 credits of the following HY modules:

Semester 1
EL30100

Dissertation

EL30500

Extended Essay Module

GE30420

Language And Society In German-speaking Countries

GE31010

The Language Of German Politics

Semester 2
EL30120

Dissertation

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

GE37020

Autobiography And Life Writing In German

HY33520

Germans And Nazism Since 1933: Reading Public Opinion Surveys, Diaries And Memoirs

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary