Undergraduate Course: German 2 Literature and Culture 2019-20 (ELCG08015)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The course consists of selected texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries studied in one two-hour Literature/Culture Seminar per week. |
| Course description |
Building on work done in German 1B, the literary/cultural course for German 2 consists of selected texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries studied in one two-hour seminar per week. The individual sessions are taught by lecturers who specialise in these particular research areas. The literature groups are larger than the literature tutorials in German 1B and are designed to acquaint students with the type of teaching they will encounter in German-speaking universities. Students write one essay (circa 2,000 words) on one of the topics covered during the semester, which may be written in German. They also write an examination essay on another of the topics studied.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- engage with their acquired knowledge about specific areas of German literature.
- analyse critically texts from different genres and contexts, and use different methodologies to do so.
- convey complex information in written and oral form.
- work effectively independently.
- develop an argument and support it with evidence.
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Reading List
The best way to access the reading list/bibliography is via Learn: click on 'Resource List' on the left hand menu on the homepage for German 2, from where there is a link that takes you directly to the resource list.
Alternatively, you can go to the generic website for resource lists, (http://resourcelists.ed.ac.uk/index.html) and search under 'German 2'. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Graduates will be able to:
1. gather, select and apply information and concepts from a variety of primary and secondary sources.
2. demonstrate acquisition of certain transferable skills, including ability to criticise, evaluate and interpret evidence, to consider a problem from a number of different perspectives, to accommodate ambiguity and advance reasonable conjectures, to argue cogently and effectively.
3. present their ideas clearly and cogently in both oral and written form.
4. work efficiently and effectively individually and as part of a group. |
| Keywords | German literature,German culture,genres,texts,contexts |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Frauke Matthes
Tel: (0131 6)51 1483
Email: Frauke.Matthes@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Gillian Paterson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3646
Email: Gillian.Paterson@ed.ac.uk |
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