German Studies // Structure
German Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Birgit Lang
Email: langb@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Structure
100 credit points
A 100-point major and 75-point minor sequence is available. The sequence is as follows for the four most common entry points for the Major and Minor.
Students will have their appropriate entry point determined by the German Studies program, based on the results of the online placement test. Please refer to the following link for further information: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/language-placement-testing
The following description of the entry points below is indicative only:
- German Studies 1 entry point: for students who have very little or no background in the German language.
- German Studies 3 entry point: usually for students who have undertaken four or five years of secondary school German or who have obtained a low VCE German score.
- German Studies 5 entry point: usually for VCE German students.
- German Studies 7 entry point: usually for native speakers or near-native speakers of German, or for candidates who have spent a number of years in a German speaking country.
Students completing a major in German Studies will usually undertake 25 points at level one, 37.5 points at level two and 37.5 points at level three. Students completing a minor will usually undertake 25 points at level one, 25 points at level two and 25 points at level three.
Subject Options
GERMAN STUDIES 1 ENTRY POINT:
German Studies 1 entry point - Level 1
Students completing a German Studies major or minor with a German 1 entry point are required to complete the following Level 1 subjects (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM10004 | German 1 |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| GERM10005 | German 2 |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
German Studies 1 entry point - Level 2
Students completing the German Studies major with a German 1 entry point are required to complete the following Level 2 subjects (37.5 points). Students completing the German Studies minor are only required to complete German 3 and German 4 (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM20004 | German 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM20005 | German 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM20006 | German Cultural Studies A | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
German Studies 1 entry point - Level 3
Students completing the German Studies major with a German 1 entry point are required to complete the following Level 3 subjects (37.5 points). Students completing the German Studies minor are only required to complete German 5 and German 6 (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM30005 | German 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM30006 | German 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM30001 | German Cultural Studies B |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
GERMAN STUDIES 3 ENTRY POINT:
German Studies 3 entry point - Level 1
Students completing the German Studies major or minor with a German 3 entry point are required to complete the following Level 1 subjects (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM10001 | German 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM10002 | German 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
German Studies 3 entry point - Level 2
Students completing the German Studies major with a German 3 entry point are required to complete the following Level 2 subjects (37.5 points). Students completing the German Studies minor are only required to complete German 5 and 6 (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM20007 | German 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM20008 | German 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM20003 | German Cultural Studies B |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
German Studies 3 entry point - Level 3
Students completing the German Studies major with a German 3 entry point are required to complete the following Level 3 subjects (25 points) and one Level 3 elective (12.5 points). Students completing the German Studies minor are only required to complete the following Level 3 subjects (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM30021 | German 7 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM30022 | German 8 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GERMAN STUDIES 5 ENTRY POINT:
German Studies 5 entry point - Level 1
Students completing the German Studies major or minor with a German 5 entry point are required to complete the following Level 1 subjects (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM10006 | German 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM10007 | German 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
German Studies 5 entry point - Level 2
Students completing the German Studies major with a German 5 entry point are required to complete the following Level 2 subjects (37.5 points). Students completing the German Studies minor are only required to complete German 7 and 8 (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM20001 | German 7 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM20002 | German 8 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM20003 | German Cultural Studies B |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
German Studies 5 entry point - Level 3
Students completing the German Studies major with a Post-VCE entry point are required to complete the following Level 3 subject and two Level 3 electives (37.5 points). Students completing the German Studies minor are only required to complete the following subject and one Level 3 elective (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM30003 | German 9 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GERMAN STUDIES 7 ENTRY POINT
German Studies 7 entry point - Level 1
Students completing the German Studies major or minor with a German 7 entry point are required to complete the following Level 1 subjects (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM10008 | German 7 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM10009 | German 8 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
German Studies 7 entry point - Level 2
Students completing the German Studies major with a German 7 entry point are required to complete the following Level 2 subjects (37.5 points). Students completing the German Studies minor are only required to complete German 9 and German 10 (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM20009 | German 9 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM20010 | German 10 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM20003 | German Cultural Studies B |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
German Studies 7 entry point - Level 3
Students completing the German Studies major with a German 7 entry point are required to complete the following Level 3 subjects and one level 3 European Studies subject (37.5 points). Students completing the German Studies minor are required to complete one of the two following subjects and one level 3 elective (25 points).
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERM30002 | German Cultural Studies C | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM30023 | German Cultural Studies D | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
German Studies Electives - Level 3
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EURO30005 | Europe and its Others | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
| EURO30003 | European Modernism | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
| EURO30002 | Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century Europe | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
| EURO30004 | Screening Europe: Image and Identity | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EURO30001 | Language and Society in Europe | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM30002 | German Cultural Studies C | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM30004 | German 10 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GERM30023 | German Cultural Studies D | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LANG30001 | Languages at Work | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
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Last updated: 18 December 2020