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Course image 22-23 GM1120: Introduction to German Studies
German
22-23 GM1120: Introduction to German Studies
This module will provide you with an introduction to the rich and often strange world of cultural production from Germany and the German-speaking countries. Guided by introductory lectures that will steer you through relevant historical, political and theoretical contexts, you will study a fascinating range of material: poems, short stories, films and a novel.

A key theme running through the module will be ‘encounters’ of different types – for example with unfamiliar people and places, with new sensations and emotions, or with memories that have been repressed. Through these encounters our texts explore the major issues in modern German culture and society: questions of personal and national identity; trauma and memory of war and the Holocaust; the experience of migration and integration; and the problematic inheritance of ‘guilt’ that continues to be relevant to Germany today.
Course image 22-23 GM1400: German Language: Culture and Translation
German
22-23 GM1400: German Language: Culture and Translation
Course image 22-23 GM1601: German Ab Initio Written I
German
22-23 GM1601: German Ab Initio Written I

Assessment:


GM1601 written exam in term 3 - 100%
GM1602 oral exam in term 3 - 100%




Course image 22-23 GM1602: German Ab Initio Oral I
German
22-23 GM1602: German Ab Initio Oral I

Assessment:


GM1601 written exam in term 3 - 100 %

GM1602 oral exam in term 3 - 100 %


Course image 22-23 GM1701: German Advanced Written I
German
22-23 GM1701: German Advanced Written I

GM1701

GM1701 is a compulsory Year 1 Language Course. Students have to attend 3 weekly lessons + a fortnightly grammar lecture (Intermediate):

  1. Grammar
  2. Comprehension
  3. Oral Practice
  4. Grammar Lecture (fortnightly, please refer to "Language Skills" site on MOODLE)

ASSESSMENT:

3-Hour Written assessment (100%):

  • Grammar
  • Composition
  • Comprehension

     

    Course image 22-23 GM1702: German Advanced Oral I
    German
    22-23 GM1702: German Advanced Oral I
    Oral exam in term 3 - weighting 100%: Wednesday, 26th April 2023
    In your oral exam you will have to talk about and discuss ONE of two themes studied in the Comprehension/Practical component of GM1701. These two themes are:

    1. Deutsche Regionen

    2. Jugend in Deutschland

    (Exact presentation title needs to kindly be discussed with Michael Hofer-Robinson)



    Course image 22-23 GM2009: German Language II
    German
    22-23 GM2009: German Language II

    GM2009

    GM2009 (Full Unit) is a compulsory Year 2 Language Course. Students have to attend 3 weekly lessons + a fortnightly grammar lecture (Intermediate)

    1. Grammar/Business German
    1. Comprehension
    1. Oral Practice
    1. Grammar Lecture (fortnightly, please refer to "Language Skills" site on MOODLE)
    ASSESSMENT:


    3-hour Written Open Book Examination (50%) :

    • Business German letter
    • Comprehension
    • Commentary
    English/German - German/English or German monolingual dictionaries are allowed for the written examination. 


    Oral Examination (50%)

    You will be expected to deliver a presentation about one of the two main topics studied in the 'comprehension' component of GM2009.

    The two topics are:

    1. Heimat & kulturelle Identität
    2. Soziale Gerechtigkeit in Deutschland

    Please note: you need to kindly discuss your specific presentation topic for the oral exam with the course convenor, Michael Hofer-Robinson.

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    Marking and Return of Work 

    • Your submission will be returned 20 working days after the deadline (see the Turnitin ’post date’). 

    • 10-percentage-mark penalty for late submission within 24 hours of deadline. 

    • See Marking criteria for grade-band requirements 

      

    Extensions  

    Extensions without evidence before deadline for TWO x TWO working-day extensions and TWO x FIVE working-day extensions (total per student per year). 

     

    Extenuating Circumstances 

     

    Autumn Term 2022 (for assessments/submission deadlines from 19 September 2022 - 8 January 2023) DEADLINE:  Midday 13 January 2023 

    Interim outcomes sent w/c 13 February 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023 

    Spring Term 2023 (for assessments/submission deadlines from 9 January 2023 - 21 April 2023) DEADLINE: Midday Friday 21 April 2023 

    Interim outcomes sent w/c 1 May 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023  

    Summer Term 2023 (for assessments/submission deadlines from 22 April 2023 - 19 May 2023) DEADLINE: Midday Friday 26 May 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023 

    Summer Term 2023 (Exceptional for late set assessments) ONLY for assessments from 20 May 2023 - 9 June 2023 DEADLINE:  Midday Tuesday 13 June 2023 

    Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023 

     

    Queries and Support 

     Info Hub (Quick Links: including CeDAS, Student Services, Wellbeing, Disability and Neurodiversity, RH Be Heard, Getting Help in an Emergency, Careers, IT, Library, Study Abroad and Hall Life).  Humanities-school@rhul.ac.uk. 

    PLEASE NOTE THAT IN ORDER TO PASS THE CORE LANGUAGE UNIT YOU MUST OBTAIN AN OVERALL PASS MARK (AVERAGE OF THE WRITTEN AND ORAL EXAM MARKS) AND PASS THE FINAL WRITTEN EXAMINATION.

    Course image 22-23 GM2010: Intensive German for Beginners II
    German
    22-23 GM2010: Intensive German for Beginners II
    TEACHING:

    5.5 hours / week
    (five weekly sessions with Ms Barbara Rassi, one fortnightly grammar lecture with Mr Michael Hofer-Robinson. Please refer to timetable.)

    ASSESSMENT:

    written examination (50%) in term 3
    oral examination (50%) in term 3


    PLEASE NOTE THAT IN ORDER TO PASS THE CORE LANGUAGE UNIT YOU MUST OBTAIN AN OVERALL PASS MARK (AVERAGE OF THE WRITTEN AND ORAL EXAM MARKS) AND PASS THE FINAL WRITTEN EXAMINATION.
    Course image 22-23 GM2122: Death, Desire, Decline: Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka
    German
    22-23 GM2122: Death, Desire, Decline: Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka
    This course will introduce you to two key figures in twentieth-century German-language literature, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Through an examination of the work of these writers, it will explore such issues as the individual v. society, the role of the artist, and the nature of desire. Mann’s work evinces a fascination with disorder and decadence even as it remains bound to bourgeois ideals of respectability and sobriety. In Kafka’s work, the everyday world of bureaucracy and officialdom is invaded by fantastical and bizarre elements. The course will focus on the unsettling and disruptive elements of these writers’ works, asking what they tell us about life in the twentieth century.

    Marking and Return of Work

    Your submission will be returned 20 working days after the deadline (see the Turnitin ’post date’).

    10-percentage-mark penalty for late submission within 24 hours of deadline.

    See Marking criteria for grade-band requirements

     

    Extensions

    Extensions without evidence before deadline for TWO x TWO working-day extensions and TWO x FIVE working-day extensions (total per student per year).



    Extenuating Circumstances

    Extenuating Circumstances (ECs) for unforeseeable circumstances beyond your control (see list of types of applicable circumstances). Evidence required; apply as soon as you can, by the deadlines below:



    Autumn Term 2022(for assessments/submission deadlines from 19 September 2022 - 16 December 2022) DEADLINE:  Midday 13 January 2023

    Interim outcomes sent w/c 13 February 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023

    Spring Term 2023 (for assessments/submission deadlines from 17 December 2022 - 31 March 2023) DEADLINE: Midday Friday 21 April 2023

    Interim outcomes sent w/c 1 May 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023 

    Summer Term 2023 (for assessments/submission deadlines from 1 April 2023 - 19 May 2023) DEADLINE: Midday Friday 26 May 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023

    Summer Term 2023 (Exceptional for late set assessments) ONLY for assessments from 20 May 2023 - 9 June 2023 DEADLINE:  Midday Tuesday 13 June 2023

    Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023



    Queries and Support

     Info Hub (Quick Links: including CeDAS, Student Services, Wellbeing, Disability and Neurodiversity, RH Be Heard, Getting Help in an Emergency, Careers, IT, Library, Study Abroad and Hall Life).  Humanities-school@rhul.ac.uk.

    Course image 22-23 GM2124: Representations of Childhood and Youth in Modern German Culture
    German
    22-23 GM2124: Representations of Childhood and Youth in Modern German Culture
    Childhood and youth - the formative periods in our lives - are of obvious crucial importance for individuals, for society and for culture. They have also been contested and controversial concepts. Children and adolescents have long been the subject of social, familial and educational pressures against which they have often rebelled in the attempt to assert individuality and develop their own identities. This course aims to introduce students to a range of literary and cinematic responses to the lives of children and young people in the context of the German-speaking countries between the late nineteenth century and the present day. Using a range of classic and recent texts and films, it will explore the historical contexts of the theme, and consider the way broader social, political and ethical issues that emerge from the representation of young people, and of institutions such as the school and the military.
    Course image 22-23 GM2501: Pra Oral In German
    German
    22-23 GM2501: Pra Oral In German
    This course does not use Moodle for teaching at this time. For more information, please contact your department or the course tutor.
    Course image 22-23 GM2502: Pra Oral In German
    German
    22-23 GM2502: Pra Oral In German
    This course does not use Moodle for teaching at this time. For more information, please contact your department or the course tutor.
    Course image 22-23 GM3009: German Language III
    German
    22-23 GM3009: German Language III
    GM3009 (Full Unit) is a compulsory core language course at final year level.

    The course will be taught with 3 hours / week + a fortnightly grammar lecture (Advanced)
    1. Essay
    1. Germany - past and present
    1. Oral Practice
    1. Grammar Lecture (fortnightly, please refer to "Language Skills" site on MOODLE)
    ASSESSMENT:
    3-Hour Written Examination (50%)
    • Erörterung (German essay)
    • comprehension and Stellungnahme (gestern&heute module/Germany past and present)

    Oral Examination (50%)

    In term 3 (Thursday, 27 April 2023) you are required to kindly deliver a presentation (approx. 7-10 minutes long) on a topic of your choice. Your presentation will be followed by a discussion with your examiners (approx. 5-7 minutes long). Your presentation topic has to be related to a German-speaking country. You choose the topic, however, it needs to be approved of by your Oral Practice tutor. For this purpose you will have to fill out and submit a so-called 'Themenblatt' (by 28 of February, 2023, 4:00pm). Note that you will be penalised if, in the exam, you read your presentation.


    FOR THE ATTENTION OF ALL STUDENTS OF LANGUAGE:
    PLEASE NOTE THAT IN ORDER TO PASS THE FINAL YEAR CORE LANGUAGE UNIT
    YOU MUST PASS BOTH THE FINAL ORAL EXAMINATION AND THE FINAL WRITTEN EXAMINATION.

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    Marking and Return of Work 

    • Your submission will be returned 20 working days after the deadline (see the Turnitin ’post date’). 

    • 10-percentage-mark penalty for late submission within 24 hours of deadline. 

    • See Marking criteria for grade-band requirements 

      

    Extensions  

    Extensions without evidence before deadline for TWO x TWO working-day extensions and TWO x FIVE working-day extensions (total per student per year). 

     

    Extenuating Circumstances 

     

    Autumn Term 2022(for assessments/submission deadlines from 19 September 2022 - 8 January 2023) DEADLINE:  Midday 13 January 2023 

    Interim outcomes sent w/c 13 February 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023 

    Spring Term 2023 (for assessments/submission deadlines from 9 January 2023 - 21 April 2023) DEADLINE: Midday Friday 21 April 2023 

    Interim outcomes sent w/c 1 May 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023  

    Summer Term 2023 (for assessments/submission deadlines from 22 April 2023 - 19 May 2023) DEADLINE: Midday Friday 26 May 2023; Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023 

    Summer Term 2023 (Exceptional for late set assessments) ONLY for assessments from 20 May 2023 - 9 June 2023 DEADLINE:  Midday Tuesday 13 June 2023 

    Final outcomes sent 27 June 2023 

     

    Queries and Support 

     Info Hub (Quick Links: including CeDAS, Student Services, Wellbeing, Disability and Neurodiversity, RH Be Heard, Getting Help in an Emergency, Careers, IT, Library, Study Abroad and Hall Life).  Humanities-school@rhul.ac.uk. 

    Course image 22-23 GM3131: Narrative and Identity
    German
    22-23 GM3131: Narrative and Identity
    This course will explore identity as it is expressed in German-language literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.
    Course image 22-23 GM3134: National Socialism and the Third Reich in German film and visual culture from 1933 to the present
    German
    22-23 GM3134: National Socialism and the Third Reich in German film and visual culture from 1933 to the present
    The course covers the period of the Third Reich to present-day Germany. You will study a broad range of examples of the visual representation of National Socialism as an ideology, a political movement and a 'national' phenomenon. Starting in the 1930s and 1940s, you will be introduced to National Socialism in its historical context and asked to consider its defining characteristics. You will consider the Nazis’ use of propaganda and ceremony, focusing on film and graphic and fine art under Hitler. The course will then focus on the aftermath of the war in both West and East Germany, and the problematic idea of the 'Zero Hour'. You will consider early attempts to 'come to terms' with the past. The debates around Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past) provide the focus for the next part of the course. You will study the depiction of perpetrators/victims, and of moral ambiguity before moving on to analyse the debates around German national responsibility for the Holocaust in the context of depictions of the failure of memory and denial in German film of the 1980s and 1990s, and conclude by studying the more recent trend towards 'normalization' in films incorporating 'ordinary' Germans and/or 'good Germans'. Throughout, you will comparatively consider the role of visual art in the above debates and trends, using the post-war work of Anselm Kiefer as a case studies, alongside analysis of site-specific memorials.