Applications are invited for the following Masters degrees in German, which
may be taken on a part-time or full-time basis.  A fully funded full time
studentship is available; part-timers may receive financial assistance with
fees.

MASTER  OF  ARTS  IN  GERMAN
 Contemporary Studies

The course programme consists of four 30 credit taught modules and one 60
credit dissertation.  The taught modules for 2001/2 are as follows:

Semester 1

· Critical Theory and German Studies

· Constructing Identities:  Post-Wende Themes

Semester 2

· Autobiography in East Germany since the Wende

· Recent Women's Writing

You may replace one of the Semester 2 modules with either
The Impossible Other, the Impossible Self:  the New German Cinema
or a directed reading module in one of the following areas:  The Culture of
the New Right;  German Postmodernism


MASTER  OF  ARTS  IN  GERMAN

 (by Research)

The MA in German (by Research) requires you to write three 5000 word essays
and a 15000 word dissertation;  you must also attend the department's MA
module on Critical Theory and German Studies.

The course content is negotiated between the student and the supervisor;
we have particular expertise in the following areas, and it is possible to
construct a programme from one of these areas or by drawing on more than
one area.

· Constructions of National Identity from the 18th Century to the present-day
· Myth in German Literature from the 18th Century to the present-day
· Representations of Jewishness in German Literature from the 18th Century
to the present-day

· Literature and History
· Feminist Criticism and Recent Women's Writing
· Contemporary Critical and Cultural Theory

· The Medieval Novel
· Romanticism
· 19th Century Narrative:  Novels and Novellen
· Political Theatre:  Brecht and his Legacy
· Culture and Politics in the Weimar Republic
· The New German Cinema
· Autobiography in East Germany Intellectuals since the Wende
· The Culture of the New Right in Contemporary Germany
· Postmodernism

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steve giles
reader in german studies/critical theory
university of nottingham
nottingham ng7 2rd