Modules for course 3N7S | BA/GEL
BA German and English Literature
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2019–20 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the years: 2018–19; 2020–21.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
40 credits from:
- LZG-1001: Advanced German 1 (20) (Semester 1) Core
- LZG-1002: Advanced German 2 (20) (Semester 2) Core
- LZG-1003: German for Beginners I (20) (Semester 1) Core
- LZG-1004: German for Beginners II (20) (Semester 2) Core
- With A-Level German Select Advanced Without A-Level German Select Beginners
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1015: Landmarks in Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
20 credits from:
- LZC-1003: Chinese for Beginners 1 (20) (Semester 1)
- LZF-1003: French for Beginners I (20) (Semester 1) or
LCF-1003: Ffrangeg i Ddechreuwyr I (20) (Semester 1) - LZI-1003: Italian for Beginners I (20) (Semester 1)
- LZS-1003: Spanish Begin./Intermed. 1 (20) (Semester 1) or
LCS-1003: Sbaeneg i Ddechreuwyr 1 (20) (Semester 1) - QXL-1110: Introduction to Language (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-1112: Language, Literature & Culture (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1600: Transnational Cultures (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1700: Creating National Histories (20) (Semester 1)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- LZG-2040: Gegenwartssprache I (40) Core
Semester 2
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2013: Renaissance and Reformation (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2027: Literature and Modernity (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 1)
- Students must take (at least) 1 module dealing with Literature before 1800, and 1 from post-1800 modules.
20 credits from:
- LXG-2008: The German Film (20) (Semester 2)
- LXG-2009: Dutch I (20) (Semester 1)
- LXE-2011: Discovering Cities (20) (Semester 1)
- LXG-2011: Dutch II (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-2025: Reading Fantastic Literatures (20) (Semester 2)
Year 4 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- LZG-3030: Gegenwartssprache II (30) Core
Semester 2
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-3012: Detective Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and EM Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3028: Literature in the Community (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3034: Arthur: legend and super hero (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3086: Shakespeare's Afterlives (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3088: Bob Dylan (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3094: Realms of Magic (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXE-3102: The 1820s: Print Explosion (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-3103: Wales: A European Contact Zone (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3105: Reading Myth (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3113: The Monstrous Middle Ages (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may not take a dissertation in both English Literature and the other discipline of the Joint Honours programme.
30 credits from:
- LXG-3016: East Germany and its Legacy (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- LXG-3036: Performing Germany (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-3101: Approaching Translation (10) (Semester 2) or
LCE-3101: Trin a Thrafod Cyfieithu (10) (Semester 2) - LXE-3102: Culture and the Body (10) (Semester 1)
- LXE-3103: Wales: A European Contact Zone (20) (Semester 1)
- LXE-3210: Press Dossier (10) (10) (Semester 1)
- LXE-3400: Joint Hons Diss (English) (10) (Semester 1 + 2) or
LCE-3400: Traethawd Hir Cyd-A (Cym) (10) (Semester 1 + 2) - LXE-3444: Joint Hons Diss (Target Lang) (10) (Semester 1 + 2)
- Joint Hons. Students may only take ONE 10-credit LXE module (does not include the dissertation). A dissertation must be taken in ONE joint honours subject.