Faculty of Arts

 German

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Germanic Studies covers the study of the language, literature, history and culture of the German-speaking peoples. This department also offers courses in Swedish language and Scandinavian civilisation as a further aspect of Germanic Studies (see Swedish).

 1. Career opportunities

Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts who have majored in German have found employment in the following areas:

• teaching;
• media;
• public service;
• overseas representation;
• German firms represented in Australia.

 2. Prerequisites

The prerequisite requirements for each German subject are given under the individual subjects. As a general rule, students must achieve a satisfactory standard in both the language and non-language components of the German courses in order to pass a subject, and appropriately higher standards in both areas to receive honours grades.

 3. Requirements for a major

A major in German requires the completion of 83.3 points in German language subjects at second and third-year level (or a combination of both levels) which must include 126-306 Advanced German Third Year B and one optional third/fourth-year level subject, or 126-310 German Third Year B (Intermediate) plus one optional third/fourth-year level subject if proceeding from Beginners German.

 4. Entry to Honours

The prerequisite for admission to the Honours in German is completion of all the requirements for the pass degree and completion of a major in German with at least an average of H2B over the major. Entry to Honours must be approved by the Faculty and the Department. Students undertaking Combined Honours must also meet the prerequisites for honours in the combining department.

 5. Honours requirements

 5.1. Pure Honours

Pure Honours students must complete:

• three optional fourth-year level subjects (50 points);
• 126-485 German Honours Language (16.7 points);
• 126-400 German Honours Thesis (33.3 points).

 5.2. Combined Honours

Combined Honours students will normally complete:

• two optional fourth-year level subjects (33.3 points) (students writing a German thesis may be required to complete 126-485 German Honours Language and one optional subject);
• 126-400 German Honours Thesis, or a thesis in the combining department (33.3 points);
• subjects in the combining department according to the requirements of that department.

 6. Opportunities for further Study

• MA in German;
• PhD in German;
• Postgraduate Diploma in German;
• Overseas Exchange;
• Goethe Institute courses in Germany or similar in Austria.

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Subject descriptions

126-101 Beginners German A
126-102 Beginners German B
126-103 Intermediate German A
126-104 Intermediate German B
126-105 Advanced German First Year A
126-106 Advanced German First Year B
126-107 German Literature and Society 1871-1933
126-108 German Literature and Society 1933-1992
126-205 Advanced German Second Year A
126-206 Advanced German Second Year B
126-305 Advanced German Third Year A
126-306 Advanced German Third Year B
126-309 German Third Year A (Intermediate)
126-310 German Third Year B (Intermediate)
126-461 Historical grammar of German
126-462 Introduction to reading Nietzsche
126-463 Literary Controversies
126-464 Ich lach' mich tot! German Humour - contradictio in adiecto?
126-486 Rilke's Poetry and Prose 1900-1914
126-466 Memory and Mourning in German Literature 1970-1990
126-467 Three mythical heroines: Iphigenia - Penthesilea - Medea
126-468 The Origin of the Other Sex: Women and Images of the Female in the German Enlightenment
126-469 Post-Holocaust Literature
126-473 Heinrich von Kleist's Prose Fiction
126-474 From Kant to Habermas: a Cultural History of German Thought
126-475 Germanic Languages
126-476 The Austrian Novelist Joseph Roth
126-477 Mastering the East German Past: Victims, Perpetrators of the Stasi
126-478 Text Linguistics of German
126-485 German Honours Language
126-400 German Honours Thesis

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