ObjectivesStudents who complete the postgraduate diploma should:
* engage in sophisticated discourse in German;
* enhance their reading comprehension of the language and their written and spoken command of German;
* enhance the ability to discuss, analyse and evaluate complex ideas in German;
* become acquainted with recent critical theory and methodology.
Academic titlePostgraduate Diploma in Arts (German)
Course description * Thesis 12,000 words (37.5 points)
* five elective subjects (62.5 points)
Total 100 points - subjects are 12.5 points each, unless indicated otherwise.
Thesis subject
Subject Semester Credit Points
126-508 German Thesis
Research on a selected topic to be approved by the Head of the German section, in consultation with the thesis supervisor. Semester 1, Semester 2 37.50
Elective subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
126-409 Mastering the Past: Legacy of the Stasi
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
126-417 Yiddish and German: The Uneasy Relatives
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
126-464 German Humour
This subject considers the questions: What do Germans consider funny? How does the concept of humour change over time on a European and on a German scale? Are there things like humorous universals that are being laughed at in all cultures? Students w... Semester 1 12.50
126-467 German Poetry Today: Serious to Slam
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
126-469 In the Shadow of the Holocaust
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
126-472 Modernity and the Metropolis
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
126-473 Heinrich von Kleist's Prose Fiction
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
126-477 A Tale of Three Generations
This subject will examine how the legacy of two German dictatorships and a failed revolution in 1968 is figured in the stories of the children. It will cover the narratives of the children of Nazi perpetrators and East German functionaries, as well a... Semester 1 12.50
126-485 German Honours Language
This subject consists of intensive language instruction which is particularly directed towards developing students' skills in writing academic German. Problems of German grammar occurring at a superior level of the language will be explored alon... Semester 2 12.50
126-488 Jews in German Culture
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
126-410 German 4: Research Project
The subject enables students to complete a 5000-word research project in German or English on a topic to be approved by their supervisor and by the subject co-ordinator. The subject's aim is to train students in carrying out a substantial piece ... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50