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Master of Arts (Honours) German and Sustainable Development


MA (Hons) German (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( First Level German A 1 20 AND
First Level German A 2 20 ) OR
( First Level German B 1 20 AND
First Level German B 2 20 )) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
What is Sustainable Development? 20 AND
Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Please balance your choices across the academic year.

MA (Hons) German (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Second Level Advanced German Language 1 10 AND
Second Level Advanced German Language 2 10 ) OR
( Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 1 10 AND
Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 2 10 )) AND
View list At least 20 credits from Module List: GM2011 - GM2014 AND
The Age of Goethe 10
Unification to the First World War 10
Medieval German Language and Literature 10
Weimar Republic:1918-1933 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Students are strongly advised to take at least 60 credits in German.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • An average grade of 11 in all German modules taken
MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
~ Sustainable Development: Frameworks for Implementation 30 AND
~ Sustainable Development: Tools for Action 30 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options
Please balance your choices across the academic year.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ~

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

See: )

MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 or 5000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 or 5000 levels.


MA (Hons) German (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
German Language 1 15 AND
German Language 2 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: GM3010 - GM3099, GM4000 - GM4095, GM4097
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 15
GM3088 Travel Writing in German since 1990 15
GM3089 The German Gothic (1800 - 2000) 15
GM3091 The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory 15
GM4007 Translation Methodology (German / English) 15
GM4046 Medieval Things 15
GM4048 Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture 15
GM4056 German Popular Music: Sound, Page and Screen 15
Holocaust Memory Culture and Its Discontents 15
Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture 15
GM4070 Writing Nature: German Environmental Thought (1800 - 2000) 15
Shakespeare: the German Catalyst 15
GM4072 German Classicism 15
GM4073 Women in German Letters 15
GM4074 Medieval History 15
GM4075 Berlin: Modernity and the Metropolis 15
Masculinities in Contemporary German Film, TV and Literature 15
GM4084 German Monsters 15
GM4089 Mermaids, Devils, Fortunes: How the German Novel Began 15
GM4092 East German Cinema 15
The German Long Story (1880 - 1941) 15
GM4095 Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 15
GM4097 Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond 15
The Medieval Short Story 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Contesting sustainability 30 AND
View list At least 30 credits from Module list: SD3100, SD3111, SD4110 - SD4226
Methodologies for Sustainable Development 30
SD3111 Home and Energy Geographies 30
Transitioning to sustainability: community, nature and governance 30
SD4111 Governance for Sustainability 30
SD4114 Society, Sustainable Consumption and Implementing Change 30
SD4115 The Nature of Political Ecology 30
SD4116 Building sustainable, inclusive and just cities 30
The Blue Economy and Maritime Security Intersections and Interdependence 30
Extractive Environments 30
Green Politics: theory and practice 30
Global Health Disparities 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Please balance your choices across the academic year.

MA (Hons) German (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
German Language 3 15 AND
German Language 4 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: GM3010 - GM3099, GM3103, GM4000 - GM4099, ML4794, ID4002
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 15
GM3088 Travel Writing in German since 1990 15
GM3089 The German Gothic (1800 - 2000) 15
GM3091 The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory 15
GM4007 Translation Methodology (German / English) 15
GM4046 Medieval Things 15
GM4048 Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture 15
GM4056 German Popular Music: Sound, Page and Screen 15
Holocaust Memory Culture and Its Discontents 15
Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture 15
GM4070 Writing Nature: German Environmental Thought (1800 - 2000) 15
Shakespeare: the German Catalyst 15
GM4072 German Classicism 15
GM4073 Women in German Letters 15
GM4074 Medieval History 15
GM4075 Berlin: Modernity and the Metropolis 15
Masculinities in Contemporary German Film, TV and Literature 15
GM4084 German Monsters 15
GM4089 Mermaids, Devils, Fortunes: How the German Novel Began 15
GM4092 East German Cinema 15
The German Long Story (1880 - 1941) 15
GM4095 Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 15
GM4097 Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond 15
Dissertation on German Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a German Topic 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
The Medieval Short Story 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA (Hons) Sustainable Development (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: SD3111, SD4110 - SD4299
SD3111 Home and Energy Geographies 30
Transitioning to sustainability: community, nature and governance 30
SD4111 Governance for Sustainability 30
SD4114 Society, Sustainable Consumption and Implementing Change 30
SD4115 The Nature of Political Ecology 30
SD4116 Building sustainable, inclusive and just cities 30
The Blue Economy and Maritime Security Intersections and Interdependence 30
Extractive Environments 30
Green Politics: theory and practice 30
Global Health Disparities 30
Dissertation in Sustainable Development 30
SD4299 Dissertation in Sustainable Development 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Please balance your choices across the academic year.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).