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Was feeling a bit fed up with everything today, so I thought I'd go visit the King's website and try to rekindle (or even just kindle) some motivation. And oooh... now I am practically drooling.... time to use LJ cuts! (Can't believe I only just worked out how to do this)

Programme Structure
The table below shows the structure of the programme.
1st year
You should take the core course outlined plus 1.5 cu options in German (including the option of another language course) and 2 cu options in Music.
Core courses

German: Core Language

Options

German:
Changing forms of German drama (0.5)
Medieval Germany: language, literature and society (0.5)
Milestones of German history (0.5)
One hundred years of German cinema (0.5)
The German language from past to present (0.5)
The German Novelle (0.5)
The theme of love in German literature (0.5)
German language extension course I (0.5)
Translation from and into German I (0.5 cu)

Music:
Musical performance
Musical analysis
Techniques of composition (Harmony and counterpoint)
Issues and topics in music history
Origins of twentieth-century music
Introduction to free composition
Aural training




2nd year
You should take the core course outlined plus 1.5 cu in German (including the option of another language course) and 2 cu in Music.
Core courses

German: Core Language

Options

German:
German language extension course II (0.5)
Translation from & into German II (0.5)
German for academic purposes (0.5)
German word formation (0.5)
Germanic philology (0.5)
Language & mind (0.5)
Structure & usage of contemporary German (0.5)
The emergence of standard New High German (0.5)
The German language in the 20th century (0.5)
The German language in the Middle Ages (0.5)
19th-century drama (0.5)
19th-century Realist fiction (0.5)
Brecht & Brecht-reception in modern drama (0.5)
Georg Büchner (0.5)
German literature of protest & revolution(0.5)
Goethe's Faust (0.5)
Heinrich Heine (0.5)
Heinrich von Kleist (0.5)
History into literature (0.5)
Kafka (0.5)
Modern German poetry (0.5)
Modernism & the avant-garde (0.5)
Post-1945 German fiction (0.5)
Rilke's poetry (0.5)
Romanticism (0.5)
Schiller's drama (0.5)
The Third Reich in the post-war German novel (0.5)
Thomas Mann's early fiction (0.5)
German heroic poetry (0.5)
Gottfried von Straßburg's Tristan (0.5)
Old High German & Old Saxon literature (0.5)
The beginnings of the Arthurian tradition (0.5)
Walther von der Vogelweide (0.5)
Wolfram's Willehalm, Titurel & songs (0.5)
Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival (0.5)
Word & image in German culture (0.5)
The city in German language, literature and film (0.5)
The Weimar Republic (0.5)
New German Cinema in East & West (0.5)
The German tradition of thought (0.5)
20th-century German thought (0.5)
German social & political thought (0.5)
Frankfurt School critical theory (0.5)
German Existentialism (0.5)
Repressed revolutionaries: the German bourgeoisie (0.5)
Goethe: from 'Sturm und Drang' to Classicism (0.5)
Brechtian cinema and political modernism (0.5)
The German Reformation (0.5)

Music:
Musical performance
Musical analysis
Techniques of composition (Fugue & nineteenth-century Lieder)
Free composition

History of Music courses - in any one academic session, several of the following will be offered:
-Introduction to medieval music I & II
-Sinfonia and overture
-Music of the eighteenth century
-Wagner
-Mahler
-Narrative and lyricism in nineteenth-century song
-Musical modernism since 1945
-Music and worship in England 1470-1605
-Historical performance practice
-Early Renaissance music, 1420-1520
-Musical masterpieces
-Italian opera in the nineteenth century


3rd year
Normally abroad.
Core courses

Year Abroad Practical Language
Year Abroad Essay(s) in German
Year Abroad Dissertation

Those on Erasmus/Socrates exchange may substitute German university Seminarscheine under the European Credit Transfer Scheme (ECTS).

4th year
You should take the core courses outlined plus 1.5 cu options from the German options (and including the option of another language course), plus 2 cu from the Music options listed below.
Core courses

German: Core Language

Options

German
Dissertation
Extensive writing in German on current affairs
Translation from & into German III
German word formation (0.5)
Germanic philology (0.5)
Language & mind (0.5)
Structure & usage of contemporary German (0.5)
The emergence of standard New High German (0.5)
The German language in the 20th century (0.5)
The German language in the Middle Ages (0.5)
19th-century drama (0.5)
19th-century realist fiction (0.5)
Brecht & Brecht-reception in modern drama (0.5)
Georg Büchner (0.5)
German literature of protest & revolution (0.5)
Goethe's Faust (0.5)
Heinrich Heine (0.5)
Heinrich von Kleist (0.5)
History into literature (0.5)
Kafka (0.5)
Modern German poetry (0.5)
Modernism & the avant-garde (0.5)
Post-1945 German fiction (0.5)
Rilke's poetry (0.5)
Romanticism (0.5)
Schiller's drama (0.5)
The Third Reich in the post-war German novel (0.5)
Thomas Mann's early fiction (0.5)
German heroic poetry (0.5)
Gottfried von Straßburg's Tristan (0.5)
Old High German and Old Saxon literature (0.5)
The beginnings of the Arthurian tradition (0.5)
Walther von der Vogelweide (0.5)
Wolfram's Willehalm, Titurel & songs (0.5)
Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival (0.5)
Word & image in German culture (0.5)
The city in German language, literature and film (0.5)
The Weimar Republic (0.5)
New German Cinema in East & West (0.5)
The German tradition of thought (0.5)
20th-century German thought (0.5)
German social and political thought (0.5)
Frankfurt School critical theory (0.5)
German Existentialism (0.5)
Repressed revolutionaries: the German bourgeoisie (0.5)
Goethe: from 'Sturm und Drang' to Classicism (0.5)
Brechtian cinema & political modernism (0.5)
The German Reformation
Extended essay, based on independent study

Music:
Advanced performance studies (by audition) Musical performance III
Techniques of composition III
Writings on musical analysis and criticism
Advanced free composition (admission by portfolio)
Musical analysis II
Dissertation

History of music courses - in any one academic session, several of the following will be on offer:
-Sacred continental music between Josquin and Monteverdi
-J S Bach
-Music and society in France 1789-1870
-Vienna 1900 - 1920
-Performance practices on record
-The Beethoven myth
-Debussy
-Introduction to twentieth-century opera
-The philosophy and psychology of music perception
-Musical quality and musical taste
-Nineteenth-century programme music
-European opera from the Baroque to the Enlightenment
-The Broadway musical from Showboat to West Side Story


I have no idea how I'm going to choose... but it does just look amazing!!!! Especially the study of German drama... I really enjoyed my cwk, scarily, so I'd love to do more on plays. Mmmmm....

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