Stream

German Studies - GERSA13417

Stream Summary

Faculty: Faculty of Arts&Social Science

School: School of International Studies

Contact: intlstudies@unsw.edu.au

Program: 3417 - Language Studies

Award(s):

Diploma of Language Studies (Major)

Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions

Stream Outline

Aims of the program
  • To develop informed understanding of human experience, human culture and human society in relation to German Studies.
  • To teach the tools and methods of understanding associated with German Studies, and to encourage students to perceive the relationship between German Studies and other Humanities and Social Science disciplines.
  • To encourage the breadth of vision and critical thinking associated with interdisciplinary scholarship and research related to German Studies.
  • To enable students to place contemporary German language, society and culture in a historical and comparative context.
  • To engage critically with fundamental questions about value in German Studies in both ethical and aesthetical contexts.
  • To develop the skills of critical, creative and imaginative thinking about German language, society, culture and the arts.
  • To promote the techniques and value of reasoned and open-minded discussion and debate.
  • To foster understanding of the experiences and world-views of other times, other places, and other cultures from a German perspective.

Stream Structure

For a major sequence in German Studies students must complete 48 units of credit in German courses.

Introductory Level

Level 1

Level 2
Level 3
Contextual Courses
  • 12 UOC taken from the appropriate European Studies offerings.
    For example:


Intermediate Level

Level 1

Level 2
    For example:

Level 3
    • Appropriate upper-level German Studies courses via cross-institutional study

    • Appropriate upper-level European Studies offerings.
      For example:


Advanced Level

Level 1

Level 2
  • 12 UOC from appropriate upper-level German Studies courses via cross-institutional study
  • 6 UOC from the appropriate second-year European Studies offerings.
    For example:

Level 3
    • Appropriate upper-level German Studies courses via cross-institutional study

    • Appropriate upper-level European Studies offerings.
      For example: