Contemporary German Language and Literature
Postgraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 15
- Teaching semesters Spring
- Course code
- TYS311
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- German
- Resources
- Schedule
- Reading list
Course description
Objectives and Content
Learning Outcomes
Level of Study
Semester of Instruction
Place of Instruction
Required Previous Knowledge
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Access to the Course
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Forms of Assessment
The exam is a supervised exam paper of about 5,000 words, excluding list of contents, exam question and bibliography, which is to be written within two weeks. Students are free to choose between writing on a literary or a linguistic topic. In addition there is an oral examination. At the oral examination, students must give a presentation of a topic dealt with by the texts on the reading list. The topic is to be selected by the student, but students whose exam papers deal with a literary topic must choose a linguistic topic for the oral examination, and vice versa. Students may be asked questions concerning both the exam paper and the works on the reading list.
The exam paper counts towards 60 percent of the final grade whereas the oral examination counts towards 40 percent of the final grade.
Grading Scale
Reading List
The reading list comprises
a) selected linguistic and literary topics (e.g. selected topics on general grammar, textual linguistics and variational linguistics, contrastive analysis, genre studies, text interpretation and text analysis) totalling c. 250¿300 pages and
b) literary works and culturally oriented texts (e.g. essays, media coverage, films, etc.) comprising a maximum of 500 pages).