Undergraduate
BA German and Italian
Structure
and Syllabus
BA: 12 units
(four Level 1 units, four Level 2 units plus four Level 3
units). In order to obtain the degree a student must pass in
a minimum of nine full units, at least three of which must
be from Level 3, and include the core language units at all
Levels. In any one year you may choose to enter examinations
in a minimum of one half unit and a maximum of four full
units (or half unit equivalent).
Level 1 (four
units)
Two and a half
compulsory core full units:
German
language 1 [046G100]
Advanced
Italian 1 [067105]
Dante:
Inferno [067T121]
AND
two additional German half unit options from the
following:
Modern German
history [046G135]
Truth,
language and art: key questions in the humanities [046G145]
Reading German
literature [046G150]
Gender and the
literary text I [046G185]
Gender and the
literary text II [046G190]
AND
one half unit in Italian from the following:
Italian
19th-century literature: the novel [067T161A]
Italian
20th-century literature 1: prose [067T181]
Italian
20th-century literature 2: drama [067T182]
Introduction
to Italian studies [067T190]
Italian
culture and society 1860-1945 [067T194]
Fascist
fictions: cinema & literature 1922-1945 [067T185]
Level 2 (four
units)
Two and a half
compulsory core units:
German
language 2 [046G200]
Advanced
Italian 2 [067T205]
Dante:
Purgatorio [067T221]
AND
two additional German half unit options from the
following:
Ideals and
realities in German drama I [046G235]
Ideals and
realities in German drama II [046G236]
Narrative
strategies in German prose fiction I [046G245]
Narrative
strategies in German prose fiction II [046G246]
The Nazi
movement and the German dictatorship [046G295]
Introduction
to modern European philosophy [046G297]
AND
one half unit in Italian from the following:
Italian
language and society 1 [067T210]
Italian
Renaissance 1: Art and culture [067T240A]
Italian
Renaissance 2: Literature and society 1350-1550 [067T241]
Italian 19th-
and 20th-century poetry [067T271]
Modern Sicily
and the novels of Sciascia [067T287]
The politics
and government of Republican Italy [067T298]
Level 3 (four
units)
Two compulsory core units:
German
language 3 [046G300]
Advanced
Italian 3 [067T305]
AND EITHER
two additional German half units or one
full unit option from the following:
Schiller's
drama [046G360]
German
Romanticism in the European context [046G362]
Racism and
anti-Semitism [046G377]
Vienna
1890-1910 [046G383]
Literature and
the Wende [046G390]
German
philosophy from Nietzsche to Habermas: The critique of
modern culture [046G395]
Goethe [046G500] (half unit)
AND EITHER
two additional Italian half unit options
from the following:
Essay in
Italian [067T307]
Dante:
Paradiso [067T321]
Eighteen-century travel writers and Italy [067T330]
Boccaccio and
the Renaissance novella [067T332]
Modern Italian
experimental narrative [067T383]
OR one
full unit from:
Italian
language and society 2 [067T310]
Ariosto:
Orlando furioso [067T343]
Modern
critical theory and contemporary Italian poetry [067T370]
Approved topic
[067T390]
