UNIT CATALOGUE
ESML0001: French written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To stimulate the production
of authentic and accurate written French; to provide a grounding
in French grammatical and syntactic structures; to revise, broaden
and consolidate grasp of lexis and grammatical structures; to
extend awareness of style and linguistic register; to develop
skills in translation from French into English; to practise receptive
and communicative skills
Content: (a) French Structures: definitions, varieties
of register, prescriptive and descriptive language, selected contrastive
aspects (English vs French), practical grammar points. (b) Written
Language: translation from French into English, resume, essay-writing,
stylistic re-writing of texts, prose translations (into French),
comparaisons de textes, dictee, extempore translation, cloze texts.
(c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text recreation, controlled
oral production, extempore translation, course-related conversation
sessions.
ESML0002: French written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To continue the production
of authentic and accurate written French; to provide further work
in French grammatical and syntactic structures; to revise, broaden
and consolidate grasp of lexis and grammatical structures; to
extend awareness of style and linguistic register; to develop
skills in translation from French into English; to practise receptive
and communicative skills
Content: (a) French Structures: definitions, varieties
of register, prescriptive and descriptive language, selected contrastive
aspects (English vs French), practical grammar points. (b) Written
Language: translation from French into English, resume, essay-writing,
stylistic re-writing of texts, prose translations (into French),
comparaisons de textes, dictee, extempore translation, cloze texts.
(c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text recreation, controlled
oral production, extempore translation, course-related conversation
sessions.
ESML0003: French cultural studies 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
a wide range of modern French literature and film, as a basis
for the detailed study of poetic, narrative and dramatic technique,
and to explore a variety of critical approaches. To encourage
students to study texts in a number of different ways, and to
help them to develop the confidence to reach and express their
own critical responses.
Content: The language of poetry: music and meaning, shapes
and images, meaning and metaphor. Prose narrative and the novel:
reading strategies, questions of the narrator and point of view,
the reader's role, self-reflective fiction. Theatre: the language
of theatre, the role of the interpreter, questions of performance
and study. The language of film: basic techniques and critical
theories, points of view in film, film and literature - questions
of adaptation. Application of the study of narrative techniques
to the nineteenth-century novel as an introduction to French culture
and society after 1850.
ESML0004: French cultural studies 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
a wide range of modern French literature and film, as a basis
for the detailed study of poetic, narrative and dramatic technique,
and to explore a variety of critical approaches. To encourage
students to study texts in a number of different ways, and to
help them to develop the confidence to reach and express their
own critical responses.
Content: The language of poetry: music and meaning, shapes
and images, meaning and metaphor. Prose narrative and the novel:
reading strategies, questions of the narrator and point of view,
the reader's role, self-reflective fiction. Theatre: the language
of theatre, the role of the interpreter, questions of performance
and study. The language of film: basic techniques and critical
theories, points of view in film, film and literature - questions
of adaptation. Application of the study of narrative techniques
to the nineteenth-century novel as an introduction to French culture
and society after 1850.
ESML0005: French politics & society 1A: Introduction à
la politique et à la société françaises
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the study of French politics and society from the 1930s to1945.
Content: A chronological survey of France since the 1930s
which examines issues including: the decline of rural France;
politics in the inter-war period; the Popular Front; the Second
World War, Occupation and Resistance. Seminars provide a forum
for discussion and consolidation of lectures as well as providing
study skills session for note taking and writing historical commentaries.
ESML0006: French politics & society 1B: Introduction à
la politique et à la société françaises
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: By the end of this semester
students should have a solid background in 20th Century France,
understand some of the key aspects of French politics and society,
and have acquired essential analytical and writing skills in French.
Content: Post-war expansion; decolonization; changes in
French society since 1945; the coming of the Fifth Republic; May
1968; and the victory of the Left in 1981 together with contemporary
French politics and society. Seminars provide a forum for discussion
and consolidation of the lectures as well as providing study skills
sessions for argumentative essay writing.
ESML0007: French written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop advanced skills
in the comprehension and production of written French, with particular
reference to the awareness of stylistic and linguistic nuance
and to translation to French from English. To provide a structured
but informal context for the development of a variety of advanced
oral skills. To exploit competence in written and oral French
developed during the first two years of the course and, where
appropriate, during the third year placement in France.
Content: (a) Written Language: translation from French
into English; summarization (in French); language commentary (in
French); analysis of style and register (contemporary social,
political, literary). (b) Spoken Language: explanation and debate,
through lector-led group discussion and individual presentation.
Material covers a wide range of political, social, cultural subjects,
within the context of current French concern.
ESML0008: French written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To continue to develop
advanced skills in the comprehension and production of written
French, with particular reference to the awareness of stylistic
and linguistic nuance and to translation to French from English.
To provide a structured but informal context for the development
of a variety of advanced oral skills. To exploit competence in
written and oral French developed during the first two years of
the course and, where appropriate, during the third year placement
in France. By the end of the year, students should be able to
communicate effectively and sensitively with native speakers of
French on social, political and cultural topics, orally and in
writing (translation, summarization), in a broad range of registers
and in both professional and social contexts.
Content: (a) Written Language: translation from French
into English; summarization (in French); language commentary (in
French); analysis of style and register (contemporary social,
political, literary). (b) Spoken Language: explanation and debate,
through lector-led group discussion and individual presentation.
Material covers a wide range of political, social, cultural subjects,
within the context of current French concern.
ESML0009: French cultural studies 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction
to major artistic and literary movements of the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, whose theories are fundamental
to contemporary cultural thought; to develop further the comparative
study of genres begun in the First Year; to increase the awareness
of the language of painting, and develop students' confidence
in forming and expressing critical responses.
Content: A comparative analysis of the work of selected
poets and artists within the following movements: Symbolism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism.
ESML0010: French cultural studies 2B, option 1: Conflicting
realities: film in France in the 1920s & 1930s
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
Conflicting Realities: Film in France in the Twenties and Thirties
Content: Through comparing and contrasting surrealist and
poetic-realist films, this option will provide an understanding
of the development and language of film, its history and critical
theory. Films to be studied will include Un chien andalou
(Buñuel, 1929), La Règle du jeu (Renoir,
1939) and Le Jour se lève (Carné, 1939).
ESML0011: French politics & society (advanced) 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on and develop
understanding of key structures and institutions of French political
life, introduced in Year 1. To evaluate elements of change and
continuity in the 1980s and 1990s using the framework of the Mitterrand
presidency. To encourage students to take notes and extract relevant
information from written and audio-visual material in French;
to discuss topical political, social and economic issues in French
in seminars; to build up a student 'log' over the course of the
term, comprising lecture and seminar notes, and notes from preparatory
and background reading, which will be of use in revision for the
examination.
Content: (a) Lectures: Introduction - les grands evenements;
film François Mitterrand, une vie a l'epreuve du pouvoir;
Approches de la culture politique en France; la construction de
la Nation a travers la culture - les grands travaux; Pouvoir Presidentiel
et elections legislatives 1981-1995; l'evolution des themes politiques
pendant les deux septennats; l'immigration; la France et l'Europe;
Mitterrand et l'economie. (b) Seminars: François Mitterrand,
l'homme et son image; l'apres-Mitterrand; les elections presidentielles
de 1995; le chomage et l'exclusion; la position; la position de
la France a la fin des annees Mitterrand.
ESML0012: French cultural studies 2B, option 2: First person
camera: French cinema & the auteur tradition
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
First Person Camera: French Cinema and the Auteur Tradition
Content: This option will explore the nature of first person
viewpoint in film, in relation to the auteur theory and will focus
upon the depiction of personal childhood memory in films such
as Zèro de conduite (Carné, 1933), Les
400 coups (Truffaut, 1959) and Au Reviour les enfants
(Malle, 1987).
ESML0013: French written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop advanced skills
in the comprehension and production of written French; To provide
a structured but informal context for the development of a variety
of advanced oral skills. To exploit competence in written and
oral French developed during the first two years of the course
and, where appropriate, during the third year placement in France
(or equivalent).
Content: Written Language: translation from French into
English; summarization and re-writing (in French); language commentary
(in French); analysis of style and register (contemporary social,
political, literary).
Spoken Language: explication and debate, through lector-led group
discussion and individual presentation. Material covers a wide
range of political, social, cultural subjects, within the context
of current French concern.
ESML0014: French written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX38 CW17 OR27 OT18
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop advanced skills
in the comprehension and production of written French. To provide
a structured but informal context for the development of a variety
of advanced oral skills. To exploit competence in written and
oral French developed during the first two years of the course
and, where, appropriate, during the third year placement in France
(or equivalent). By the end of the unit, students should be able
to communicate effectively and sensitively with native speakers
of French on social, political and cultural topics, orally and
in writing in a broad range of appropriate registers and in both
professional and social contexts.
Content: Written Language: translation from French into
English; summarization and re-writing (in French); language commentary
(in French); analysis of style and register (contemporary social,
political, literary).
Spoken Language: explication and debate, through lector-led group
discussion and individual presentation, focusing on and in preparation
for the requirements of the final oral examination. Material covers
a wide range of political, social, cultural subjects, within the
context of current French concern.
ESML0015: French national option F1: La France et l'Europe
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine the relations
between France and the wider European area (including the former
USSR) in the post-war world, with specific emphasis on developments
since the late 1980s. The general focus will be the broad field
of international relations which will be narrowed down to three
specific and inter-related areas: economic and commercial interests;
foreign policy and diplomacy; military policy and security. The
unit will examine the tensions which have always existed in French
policy towards Europe between a nationalist and an internationalist
impulsion. In the three areas noted above, protectionism, individualism
and national independence have constantly vied with liberalism,
international cooperation and alliance solidarity. These dichotomies
go beyond the traditional right/left divide in French politics
and have always run as a deep fissure within both the broad left
and the broad right. At the same time, since the end of the 1980s,
France has been faced with a new dichotomy; whether to prioritise
the deepening of the Community of 12 (the Maastricht process)
or, on the contrary, to pursue the old Gaullist vision of a broader
Europe "from the Atlantic to the Urals". Particular
emphasis will be placed throughout the course on the complex but
crucial role played by Franco-German relations.
Content: Four hours will be devoted to each of the following:
1. The historical background to France's relations with Europe.
2. France and the EEC (1958-85). 3. French foreign and defence
policy (1958-89). 4. France, the Single Market and Maastricht.
5. French European security policy since the fall of the Berlin
Wall. Taught in French.
ESML0016: French national option F2: La France urbaine
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To study the importance
of urban life in contemporary debate on social issues and French
national identity, using authentic French material (including
film and video); to use a variety of disciplinary sources to explore
urban life in France, especially urban sociology, anthropology,
political sociology and policy studies; to examine cultural representations
of French urban life. The unit aims to give students a deeper
understanding of social issues in France today; to develop reading,
listening and discussion skills in the French language.
Content: Approaches to urban studies; urban policy; "la
banlieue'"; politics and towns; the "new towns"
policy; violence and urban life; media representations of urban
life; case studies. Taught in French.
ESML0017: French national option F3: La femme en France au
vingtième siècle
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
various aspects of feminist thought and to situate some of the
main debates within feminism. Through a series of theme-based
seminars, to analyse women's involvement in events of the 20th
century in France, notably the two World Wars and the suffragist
and feminist movements. The 20th Century has brought significant
social change and this course will seek to evaluate the extent
to which these changes were gendered . By the end of the course
students should have gained a better understanding of gender issues
within contemporary French society. (Note: the second year option
on Women in France is not a pre-requisite, although students who
attended that option will find that this is an opportunity to
pursue their interests).
Content: The first couple of weeks will be devoted to exploring
a range of feminist ideas. Then we will move into discussions
based on student presentations around a series of themes related
to women's lives. These might include: women and war; suffragism,
feminism and women's activism; women and violence; politics and
power; representations of women; women in ethnic minorities. Taught
in French.
ESML0018: French national option F4: Films of the nouvelle
vague
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To study the achievements
and significance of the Nouvelle Vague, with particular
reference to the works of four of its main directors and to place
these within the broader context of film theory, history and criticism,
Content: Films to be studied: Jean-Luc Godard, A Bout
de souffle (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962); Louis Malle,
Le Feu follet (1963), Le Souffle au coeur (1971);
Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - to be studied
in conjunction with the script by Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima
mon amour, Gallimard 1960, L'Année dernière
à Marienbad (1961); François Truffaut, Les
400 coups (1959), Jules et Jim (1961).
ESML0019: French national option F5: French comedies from
Molière to Beaumarchais
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The unit is for those who
wish to familiarize themselves with and enjoy some of the classic
comedies which have become central to French cultural consciousness
and can still be guaranteed to fill a theatre even today. It is
also intended to appeal to those whose principal motivation is
that they find these texts funny. Most important, it requires
absolutely no prior knowledge of the literary background or the
historical context. The aims of the course are to introduce the
social, political and historical background of the texts and to
examine those aesthetic and dramaturgical considerations which
are so often inextricably linked with the background. In particular,
to explore through these texts the development away from a rigid
and hierarchized social structure towards the struggle for individuality
and liberty which is often identified with the Revolution. Students
will also notice faint glimmerings of a shift towards female emancipation.
Content: MOLIERE: L'Avare, Le Malade imaginaire;
MARIVAUX: Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, Les Fausses Confidences;
BEAUMARCHAIS: Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro.
These plays are all in prose. Anyone curious to look at a verse
play could choose Molière's Les Femmes Savantes
or Regnard's Le Légataire universel which are not,
however, formally on the syllabus. First-time readers may find
it helpful to read the two Beaumarchais plays in the order stated.
ESML0020: French national option F6: French autobiography
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this unit will
be to trace the evolution of autobiographical writing in France
throughout the modern period and to examine the ways in which
writers have explored the themes of personal identity, memory,
reality and imagination and the polarity between public and private
history.
Content: History of autobiography and autobiographical
theory; theories of selfhood and identity; the powers of memory,
nature and culture in the development of personality, with reference
to: J-J Rousseau, Les Confessions; Stendhal, Vie de
Henry Brulard; G Sand, Histoire de ma vie; V Leduc,
La Bâtarde; A Gide, Si le Grain ne meurt;
S de Beauvoir, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée;
J P Sartre, Les Mots; N Sarraute, Enfance; A Ernaux,
La Place; M Duras, L'amant and/or L'Amant de
la Chine du nord; G Perec, W ou le souvenir d'enfance;
H Guibert, A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie.
Students will be expected to prepare seminar papers on writers
or topics of their choice.
ESML0021: French cultural studies 2B, option 3: French novels
about religion in society 1931-1955
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
French novels about religion in society, 1931-1955.
Content: The unit examines three best-selling novels offering
contrasting accounts of the impact of the French Catholic Church
in French society. These are: Bernards: Le Journal d'un curé
de campagne; Mauriac: Le Noeud de vipères; Cesbron:
Les Saints vont en enfer.
ESML0022: French national option F8: Specialist language -
translation A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0023
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the techniques of documentary translation in a number of specialized
registers.
Content: Introduction to professional translating, glossaries,
house style, translation critique.
ESML0023: French national option F8: Specialist language -
translation B
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Co ESML0022
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the techniques of documentary translation in a number of specialized
registers.
Content: Introduction to professional translating, glossaries,
house style, translation critique.
ESML0024: French national option F9: Specialist language:
interpreting A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment:
Requisites: Co ESML0025
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the techniques of interpreting.
Content: Introduction to professional interpreting: liaison,
consecutive and simultaneous.
ESML0025: French national option F9: Specialist language:
interpreting B
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: OR100
Requisites: Co ESML0024
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the techniques of interpreting.
Content: Introduction to professional interpreting: liaison,
consecutive and simultaneous.
ESML0026: French national option F10: Surrealism
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To explore the idea of
Surrealism as a revolutionary movement; to examine the aims and
achievements of the Surrealists; to encourage individual involvement
and response through an analysis of a wide variety of 'texts'.
Content: An analysis of the theories and practice of surrealism
and their expression through literature, art, and film. Set 'texts'
will include L Aragon, Le Paysan de Paris; A Breton, Manifestes
du Surréalisme; Nadja; A Breton & P Soupault, Les
Champs magnétiques; L Buñuel; Un chien andalou;
L'Age d'or; P Eluard, Mourir de ne pas mourir; S Freud,
The Interpretation of Dreams.
ESML0027: French national option F11: La persuasion et la
propagande
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine the respective
rôles of persuasion and propaganda in French society today,
parallels being drawn also with other countries. Where does persuasion
end and propaganda begin? How do today's politicians market themselves
to the electorate? Have the techniques changed over the years?
Content: After initial work on the definitions of the evolution
of persuasion and propaganda, students pass onto investigations
of particular areas of debate, events or political parties in
a contemporary context. Their findings are presented as seminar
contributions. Taught in French.
ESML0028: French national option F12: Environnement, société,
développement
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: Environmental issues regularly
appear in the news and increasing numbers of people currently
attach great importance to them. However, the issues themselves
are rarely clear-cut; they are subject to competing interpretations
and to conflicts of interest, indicating a need for critical distance
in the treatment of the subject. Within a context of open-ended
evaluation, the aim of this course is to explore environmental
issues in terms of their political, social and economic dimensions
and to assess their importance. Most of the work will concentrate
on discussing developments in France today, but as by their very
nature environmental questions go beyond national boundaries,
the course will take the international dimension into account.
Content: The major themes to be surveyed are: (1) the ideas
behind environmentalism and political ecology; (2) green politics
in France today; (3) environmental policy-making in France and
the EU; (4) the environment, business behaviour and green consumerism;
(5) the impact of environmentalism on French society today. Students
have the opportunity to focus on a suitable mix of themes which
particularly interest them. Taught in French.
ESML0029: French national option F13: Culture et identité
dans la France contemporaine
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: French
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This unit will examine
the relationship between identity and culture at times of social
and. political change. It will explore the way in which the identities
of different social groups are expressed within the economic,
political and cultural contexts of contemporary France. The aim
is to examine elements of the French identity taking into account
students' own experience of France and its diversity. The unit
will pay particular attention to the construction of identities
through cultural forms such as museums, language, literature,
music, film and the media.
Content: Introductory lectures will familiarize students
with various theoretical approaches to the study of both culture
and identity. Students will then examine the social and cultural
frameworks for thinking about the question of what it means to
be French. Seminars and case studies will examine themes such
as heritage, memory, migrations, nation, tradition and popular
culture. Taught in French.
ESML0030: German written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The unit pursues a dual
aim. 1. To improve students' communicative and listening skills
(oral/aural) and to expand their vocabulary so that they are able
to express themselves clearly in everyday as well as in academic
contexts as appropriate; to enable students to formulate their
own ideas and to interact effectively in German and to adjust
flexibly to various situations by using a suitable register. 2.
To refresh and consolidate students' knowledge and understanding
of grammatical structures; to enable them to apply the acquired
skills to the production of coherent and fluent written composition;
to introduce them to a variety of German texts dealing with appropriate
contemporary issues.
Content: 1. Classes may consist of free discussions with
the entire group, interactive exercises (e.g. role play, small-group
discussions, one-to-one exchange of ideas). Austrian and German
video material and newspaper articles form the basis for discussion
and assessment, whilst improving awareness of contemporary life
in the German-speaking world. 2. In respect of i. the consolidation
of German language structures: this unit focuses on the various
classes of words, their declension and their function within the
phrase/ sentence, ii. written communication: a variety of linguistic
skills are developed by means of translation into and from German
and essay writing in German (including German to German summary).
ESML0031: German written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The unit builds on German
Language I, pursuing the same dual aim. 1. To improve students'
communicative and listening skills (oral/aural) and to expand
their vocabulary so that they are able to express themselves clearly
in everyday as well as in academic contexts as appropriate; to
enable students to formulate their own ideas and to interact effectively
in German and to adjust flexibly to various situations by using
a suitable register. 2. To refresh and consolidate students' knowledge
and understanding of grammatical structures; enable them to apply
the acquired skills to the production of coherent and fluent written
composition; to introduce them to a variety of German texts dealing
with appropriate contemporary issues.
Content: 1. Classes may consist of free discussions with
the entire group, interactive exercises (e.g. role play, small-group
discussions, one-to-one exchange of ideas). Austrian and German
video material and newspaper articles form the basis for discussion
and assessment, whilst improving awareness of contemporary life
in the German-speaking world. 2. In respect of i. the consolidation
of German language structures: this unit focuses on complex grammar
points and German syntax.; ii. written communication: a variety
of linguistic skills are developed by means of translation into
and from German and essay writing in German (including German
to German summary).
ESML0032: German cultural studies 1A: Kultur der Weimarer
Republik
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the culture of the Weimar Republic in its socio-political context,
in particular through close study of representative texts and
films. To make students aware of the formal characteristics and
expressive potential of forms of cultural production such as autobiography,
film and novella. To develop their analytical capacities and self-confidence
in the evaluation of works of culture.
Content: Will include the study of a) Texts: Ernst Toller,
Eine Jugend in Deutschland, Thomas Mann, Mario und der
Zauberer; b) Film: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.
ESML0033: German cultural studies 1B: Drittes Reich und Nachkriegsjahre
(1933-61)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 PR33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
significant aspects of German culture in the period 1933-61 through
a close study of representative texts and films seen in their
socio-political context. To make students aware of the formal
characteristics and expressive potential of forms of cultural
production such as the short story, the novel, autobiography,
drama, poetry and the film. To enable students to develop their
critical capacities and their ability to reach well-reasoned conclusions
in their evaluation of works of culture.
Content: Lectures will introduce students to the principal
features of German cultural life during the Third Reich and in
the immediate post-war years. Seminars will be devoted to critical
analysis of selected texts and films which are representative
of the period.
ESML0034: German politics & society 1A: Deutschland und
Osterreich 1918-1939
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To trace the most important
political, social and economic developments in inter-war Germany
and Austria. At the same time to provide practice in German comprehension,
speaking and writing. Students should learn to follow lectures
in straightforward German and take notes from them; understand
vocabulary and concepts relevant to the history of the period;
make short oral presentations in German and facilitate seminar
discussion as part of a panel; write short essays in German on
topics arising out of their seminar presentation.
Content: i. Weimar (1918-1933)
a) Revolution, Friedensvertrag und Weimarer Verfassung
b) Bruning und das Ende von Weimar
ii Drittes Reich (1933-1945)
a) Propaganda
b) Holocaust
iii Osterreich
a) Entstehung der Republik
b) Burgerkrieg
ESML0035: German politics & society 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To convey in German the
most significant political and social developments from 1945 to
1963; to give students practice in understanding lectures in German
and taking notes, to introduce relevant vocabulary and concepts
and to assist students in discussing and writing on the above
issues in German
Content: i) Westdeutschland: Adenauer-Ara (1945-1963)
a) Besatzung und Entnazifizierung
b) Das Grundgesetz
c) Kanzlerdemokratie und Westintegration
d) Das Parteiensystem
ii) Ostdeutschland: vom Aufbau zum Mauerbau (1945-1961)
a) Allgemeine politische Entwicklungen im ersten Nachkriegsjahrzehnt
b) Wirtschaftliche Startbedingungen und Aufbau des Sozialismus
c) Die SED und der staatliche Aufbau der DDR
d) Der Bau der Berliner Mauer
ESML0036: German written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on knowledge (grammatical
accuracy and range of vocabulary) and writing skills acquired
in semesters 1 and 2. Having successfully completed this unit,
students should be able, at the appropriate level, to: translate
texts (German to English); summarize English texts into German
and write short essays expressing a personal opinion on a given
topic.
Content: German to English translation, English to German
summarisation, German essay-writing in response to text-based
questions.
ESML0037: German written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on knowledge (grammatical
accuracy and range of vocabulary) and writing skills acquired
in semester 3. Having successfully completed this unit, students
should be able, at the appropriate level, to: translate texts
(German to English) with an increased awareness of nuance of meaning;
summarize English texts (as wide-ranging in topic and style as
time and circumstances permit) into German and write short essays
with good grammatical awareness and fluency of style, and to translate
a dictated English text into German.
Content: German to English translation, English to German
summarisation, German essay-writing in response to text-based
questions; extempore German-to-English translation.
ESML0038: German cultural studies 2A: Kultur in der Bundesrepublik
von 1961 bis zur Gegenwart
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To study the development
of cultural life in the German Federal Republic over the years
when the two German states were separated by the Berlin Wall.
To refer in detail both to proseworks and films produced during
this period and to more recent works taking stock of divided Germany
from a post-unification perspective. To focus on a number of key
cultural phenomena of these years: (i) personal experiences of
life in the West, and especially in West Berlin, after the building
of the Wall; (ii) the challenge to the self-confidence of the
Federal Republic represented by the events of 1968 and their aftermath;
and (iii) the struggle for gender equality in the context of the
1970s and 1980s.
Content: A framework of lectures will provide an overview
of this era from the West German perspective and an introduction
to the work of the authors and film-makers to be studied. The
seminars will focus on the analysis of representative works of
the period and the changing post-unification view of its significance.
Works to be studied are likely to include Heinrich Böll,
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Peter Schneider,
Der Mauerspringer, Margarethe von Trotta, Die bleierne
Zeit and Schneider/von Trotta, Das Versprechen.
ESML0039: German cultural studies 2B, option 1: Max Frisch
und die Schweiz
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 OR33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To enable students i) to
acquire a critical awareness of cultural and political developments
in Switzerland in the twentieth century with particular reference
to the period 1933-1974, and ii) to reach firmly based conclusions
about the nature and validity of Max Frishch's critique of Swiss
society in this period.
Content: Lectures will introduce students to the work of
a major writer, Max Frisch, and place it within the context of
major political and cultural developments in the 20th Century
Switzerland. Seminars will be devoted to critical analysis of
representative texts by Frisch.
ESML0040: German cultural studies 2B, option 2: Berlin als
Kulturmetropole 1918-1933
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To assess the importance
of Berlin as a cultural metropolis during the Weimar Republic.
To examine the significance of theatre and cinema as centres of
creative innovation and political debate, and to identify new
methods being used by prose writers to describe the often overwhelming
experience of city life. To examine the cliché of Berlin
as a `decadent' city in the light of subsequent literary and cinematic
evidence.
Content: A framework of lectures will provide the cultural
and political context within which Berlin's importance during
this period is to be assessed., and give an overview of the work
of the writers and film-makers to be studied more closely in seminars.
The seminars themselves will allow students the opportunity to
analyse key fictional, theatrical and cinematic works of the period
(e.g. Brecht/Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper , Kästner, Fabian,
Lang Metropolis and Ruttmann Sinfonie einer Großstadt)
and to take a critical look at the image of Berlin provided by
works such as Fosse's Cabaret.
ESML0041: German cultural studies 2B, option 3: Ideologie
und Kultur im Dritten Reich
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine the principal
elements of Nazi ideology and their transmission by means of the
Gleichschaltung (coordination) of the media, literature, film
and art. Also to assess the role played by the intelligentsia
with reference to a liberal conservative (Ernst Wiechert) and
members of the resistance (Jan Petersen, Hans und Sophie Scholl).
Content: Will include the study of a) Texts: extracts from
the prose writing of Hitler and Arthur Dinter, examples of Nazi
song, Ernst Wiechert, Der weisse Buffel, and resistance
fiction and poems. b) Films: Triumph des Willens, Hitler:
eine Karriere, Die Weisse Rose.
ESML0042: German politics & society 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To study relations between
the two German states from the Hallstein-Doktrin, through Brandt's
Ostpolitik to the collapse of the GDR and unification; to analyse
the main features of the economic and social system of each of
the two German states; to build on the vocabulary and concepts
previously acquired and to assist students in discussing and writing
on the above issues at an advanced level of German.
Content: Geteiltes Deutschland: 1961-1989
i) DDR: vom Mauerbau bis zur deutschen Einigung
a) Aspekte der DDR-Identitat (Politische Kultur, Alltag und Stasi)
b) BRD und DDR: ein kritischer Systemvergleich
c) Frauen und Soziale Sicherheit
d) Das Jahr der Wende
ii) BRD: vom Mauerbau bis zur deutschen Einigung
a) Deutsch-deutsche Beziehungen
b) 1968 und die Folgen
c) Kohl-Ara (1982-1989)
ESML0043: German politics & society 2B, option 1: Das
wiedervereinigte Deutschland
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To convey in German the
most significant economic, political and social developments since
unification, to give students practice in preparing and giving
seminar presentations and to improve further their writing skills
in German.
Content: a) Mentalitatsunterschiede in Ost und West
b) Das Parteiensystem und "DDR-Nostalgie"
c) Vergangenheitsbewaltigung: Stasi und Folgen
d) Die Jugend im vereinigten Deutschland
ESML0044: German politics & society 2B, option 2: Berlin
seit dem Kriegsende
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine the social and
political experience of life in both halves of Berlin between
1945 and 1989, as a microcosm of the effects of the division of
Germany on its population. To take full account of the changes
which have taken place in the city since the collapse of the GDR
and which have brought about its reinstatement as the capital
of Germany.
Content: Subjects for close study include: everyday life
in both halves of the city during the Cold War; propagandist portrayals
of life in the `other' half of the city; the impact of the crises
of 1953 and 1961 on both parts of the city; the changes brought
about by détente in the 1970s and 1980s; the unification
process and resistance to it in East Berlin; the physical reconstruction
of Berlin since 1989; problematic aspects of Berlin's transition
to capital city; the `Mauer im Kopf' as a continuing phenomenon
of the 1990s.
ESML0045: German politics & society 2B, option 3: Neue
Soziale Bewegungen in der BRD
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This aim of this unit is
to study political subcultures in Germany and to explore post-war
German politics and history from the perspective of the manifold
protest movements. Students are introduced to the thinking and
writing of leading representatives of these movements as well
as to sociological texts trying to explain the social movement
phenomenon.
Content: The unit covers the culture of political protest
in Germany from the beginning of the two German states up to the
present days of unified Germany. Particular emphasis will be placed
on the protest of the 1980s (peace movement, environmental movement),
the civil rights movement in the former GDR, and expressions of
political discontent in the early 1990s.
ESML0046: German politics & society 2B, option 4: Die
Frau in der deutschen Gesellschaft
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The course aims at encouraging
awareness of gender as a social variable which must be taken into
account just as we take account of class, race, geography and
generation when examining the social and political life of Germany.
It will examine how gender differences and attitudes towards gender
roles affect the roles and representations of women in German
society today.
The purpose of this unit is to enable students to express themselves
both in written and spoken German on issues relating to gender
in the political and social structures of German society, to acquire
relevant concepts and to demonstrate a basic understanding of
the academic treatment in Germany of the issues involved.
Content: The course will examine the changes which 'Frauenbilder'
and the 'Frauenrolle' have undergone and highlight certain aspects
of woman's role in society today. In this context, it will look
at the specific experience of women in contemporary Germany, focusing
on questions of rights, legislation, equal opportunities on the
one hand, and on the representation of women in economic, social,
cultural and political structures on the other.
ESML0047: German politics & society 2B, option 5: Der
Deutsche Sozialstaat
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this unit is
to explore the social impact of processes of economic globalisation
on unified Germany. Students are made familiar with the historical
evolution of the 'Modell Deutschland' and its transformation in
the 1990s.
Content: In its first half the unit covers the evolution
of the German welfare system and the emergence of the so-called
'nivellierte Mittelstandsgesellschaft'. In the second half we
will concentrate on the management of new phenomena like mass-unemployment,
'neue Armut', economic competition from newly industrialising
countries, drastic cuts in the social welfare provision etc.
ESML0048: German written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To refine students' ability
to translate competently from German into English in a variety
of contemporary registers. To develop their summarisation skills
so that they are able to produce a précis in sophisticated
German of a complex English text on a subject of broad contemporary
interest. To enable students to write coherent, well-argued and
grammatically correct essays in German in response to issues raised
in complex German texts. To enhance students' knowledge of the
spoken language acquired during their year abroad so that they
are able to converse fluently on contemporary issues and deliver
sophisticated oral presentations on topics of their choice.
Content: Written language: (a) Translation from German
into English is the focus of one of the two weekly hours. The
main emphasis in this semester will be placed on dealing with
texts written in more colloquial registers. (b) The second weekly
hour is devoted to the production of German in summarisation and
essay-writing exercises. In this semester particular attention
will be devoted to developing essay-writing skills.
Spoken language: The emphasis is on project work carried out both
on a group and an individual basis, with the chosen topics of
an appropriately complex and controversial nature.
ESML0049: German written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX56 CW17 OR27
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To refine students' ability
to translate competently from German into English in a variety
of contemporary registers. To develop their summarisation skills
so that they are able to produce a précis in sophisticated
German of a complex English text on a subject of broad contemporary
interest. To enable students to write coherent, well-argued and
grammatically correct essays in German in response to issues raised
in complex German texts. To enhance students' knowledge of the
spoken language acquired during their year abroad so that they
are able to converse fluently on contemporary issues and deliver
sophisticated oral presentations on topics of their choice.
Content: Written language: (a) Translation from German
into English is the focus of one of the two weekly hours. The
main emphasis in this semester will be placed on translating texts
written in more formal registers. (b) The second weekly hour is
devoted to the production of German in summarisation and essay-writing
exercises. In this semester particular attention will be paid
to developing summarisation skills.
Spoken language: As before, project work will be carried out both
on a group and an individual basis. Additional emphasis will now
be placed on developing students' presentational skills in preparation
for their oral examination.
ESML0050: German national option G1: Political culture in
divided & unified Germany & Austria
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 ES33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This unit considers, first,
the main factors which influenced the political culture and identity
of the three German-speaking states (Federal republic, GDR and
Austria) as they emerged after the military defeat of National
Socialism; secondly, the tensions which later developed in these
political cultures and the currents of unrest and opposition to
which they gave rise. Thirdly, discussion will focus on the legacy
of the past in the political culture of Germany and Austria in
the 90s.
Content: Topics for discussion are the concept of political
culture; the problem of defining German and Austrian identity;
confrontation with the NS past in Germany and Austria in the aftermath
of WW2; Austria as the 'first victim' of National Socialism; opposition
in the GDR and the collapse of the East German state; terrorism
in the Federal Republic as a reaction to the dominant political
culture; Germanys past in the present following unification; Austrian
identity in the 90s. Taught in German.
ESML0051: German national option G2: German writers in exile
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 ES33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To consider the effects
of exile on the life and work of selected German writers who emigrated
during the period of fascist rule in Germany; to analyse the reception
of those writers in the divided Germany of the 1950s and 1960s,to
enable students to evaluate the contribution of émigré
writers to twentieth-century German culture.
Content: Students are asked to purchase the following texts
(available in paperback): Stefan Heym, Der Fall Glasenapp;
Anna Seghers, Das siebte Kreuz; Bertolt Brecht, Mutter
Courage und ihre Kinder. Students are also asked to view the
following films, copies of which will be made available on video:
Hangmen also Die (dir. Fritz Lang); The Seventh Cross
(dir. Fred Zinnemann),
ESML0052: German national option G3: Risiko Deutschland?
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 CW25 OT25
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of the unit is
to explore the position of the new Germany in the context of European
and international politics. Against the background of the post-war
European order, students are made familiar with three important
national and international debates. These are centred around Germany's
search for a national identity, Germany's position as an economic
giant with structural problems and around the question of Germany's
(military) contribution to the solution of international conflicts.
Content: The option will cover the following main topics:
Geschichte: Deutsche Teilung und europäische Integration
von 1945 bis 1989. Identität: Nation und Nationalismus im
vereinigten Deutschland. Wirtsschaft: Weltwirtschaftsmacht und
Standortdebatte.. Politik: Deutschlands Beitrag zur internationalen
Sicherheit. Taught in German.
ESML0053: German national option G4: Kultur und Politik in
der ehemaligen DDR
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This unit will examine
the development of literature and film in the political context
of the GDR to provide an overview of the development of literature
and film in the political context of the GDR and to assess the
distinctive qualities of the GDR culture. It will take full account
of the way in which perspectives on GDR culture have changed since
German unification. Through the close study of a number of key
texts and films it will identify some major thematic concerns
of the period following the rejection of socialist realism as
a cultural doctrine.
Content: Lectures will provide an overview of the key events
in the GDR's cultural history and highlight problems involved
in dealing with GDR culture from today's perspective. Seminars
will focus on representative literary texts and films of the period
between 1961 and 1989, including works by Christa Wolf, Günter
de Bruyn, Volker Braun, Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf.
ESML0054: German national option G5A: Specialist language
1
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Co ESML0055
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to,
and provide them with a grounding in, some of the skills needed
by professional linguists.
Content: Introduction to translation theory, translation
criticism, lexicography and terminology for students of German.
Translation of general and specialised (mainly scientific) texts
from German into English and from English into German.
ESML0055: German national option G5B: Specialist language
2
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Co ESML0054
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to,
and provide them with, a grounding in some of the skills needed
by professional linguists
Content: Introduction to translation theory, translation
criticism, lexicography and terminology for students of German.
Translation of general and specialized (mainly scientific) texts
from German into English and from English into German.
ESML0056: German national option G6: Technikkritik und Umweltsorge
in Literatur und Film der Gegenwart
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the principles of "green" thinking and the critique
of technology as characteristic aspects of contemporary German
culture; to explore the role the theatre, literature and film
have played in reflecting and promoting them. There will be introductory
lectures on influential anti-modernist thinkers and popular books
on technology and the environment. The main part of the course
will consist of seminar presentations and discussion of texts
and films.
Content: Narrative fiction: Gudrun Pausewang, Die Wolke;
Jurij Koch, Der Kirschbaum; Peter Härtling, Das
Windrad. Other literary texts: Friedrich Dürrenmatt,
Die Physiker; Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Der Untergang
der Titanic; Christa Wolf, Störfall. Films: Hermann
Zschoche, Insel der Schwäne; Werner Herzog, Wo
die grünen Ameisen träumen, Fitzcarraldo. Taught
in German.
ESML0057: German national option G7: Okoland Deutschland
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES50 CW25 OT25
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of the unit is
to overcome the narrow understanding of ecological politics in
Germany as the effort to protect the countryside and its wildlife.
Instead, the social, cultural and political implications of the
green issue are explored. Rather than focusing exclusively on
the German Green Party, their environmental demands or any other
political programme of ecological reform (all of this will, of
course, be touched upon), the module tries to understand ecological
politics and its evolution as a phenomenon of general cultural
modernisation. Students are introduced to the ecological issue
as a driving force of Germany's current development and a central
issue in the thinking of social theorists and political scientists
in Germany.
Content: We will start out by trying to conceptualise the
meaning and cultural significance of nature and of the ecological
crisis. We will then explore various concepts of social, cultural
and political modernisation and finally analyse the practical
impact of the ecological issue on political culture and the social
and economic development of contemporary Germany. Taught in German.
ESML0058: German national option G8: Frauen und Gender in
Deutschland
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To permit a deeper and
more systematic study of women in Germany than was possible in
the second year option (which is not a prerequisite). Whereas
the second year option focused on images and attitudes which affect
the lives of women, this option will assess the significance of
the changes in the role and situation of women in German society
since the Second World War, from historical, socio-political,
economic and psychological perspectives. It will examine the challenges
to women's traditional roles within the institutions of marriage
and family brought about first by socio-economic factors in both
post-war German states, then by the impact of the women's movement,
and the ways the resultant changes have increased the presence
of women in the cultural, social and political domain as well
as their prospects on the employment market. The complex impact
of German unification on the situation of women, especially in
the ex-GDR, will provide the focus for the discussion of contemporary
German society and the prospects for women in the years ahead.
Content: An introduction to different strands of feminist
thought and analysis and a discussion of gender as a social determinant
will provide the background to a more in-depth study of major
areas of empirical research into women's role, position and opportunities
in German society both past and present. The unit will cover the
following topics: origins, development and impact of the new women's
movement in Germany; women in the labour market and the German
economy; the changing institutions of marriage and the family
in German society and reforms in the legal system affecting women;
changes in the political culture of Germany through the greater
representation of women in politics and major organisations in
the economy; the women's movement and its impact on other social
movements in Germany (the ecological movement, the New Right and
the legacy of National Socialism); current theoretical positions
in psychoanalysis dealing with the impact of socialisation on
women's identity and on gender-based definitions and attributes;
young women in Germany today: expectations and perspectives. Taught
in German.
ESML0059: German national option G9: Die Massenmedien in Deutschland
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: to develop an understanding
of the principles of mass communication and an awareness of the
common features of European mass media and peculiarities to the
German system; to develop an appreciation of the implications
of technological advances in this field, particularly vis-à-vis
the perspective of global communications.
Content: theory of communication and mass communication;
structure and character of the media; historical developments
in the German media (pre-1945; FRG; GDR); legal aspects of the
media environment; funding and inter-media competition; new media
- from Btx to the Internet in one generation; Spin Doctors and
Soundbites: media as a political tool; the impact of German unification
on the media of both former German states; advertising.
ESML0060: Italian written & spoken language 1A (ab initio)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW75 PR25
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To give students a systematic
grounding in the fundamental structures of Italian grammar, and
to enable them to employ those structures correctly in short written
texts within a communicative context, and orally in a variety
of practical and everyday situations. Aural comprehension and
oral communication skills are developed thanks to the use of audio-visual
material and constant contact with native speakers. The objective
is to bring students to an intermediate level of knowledge of
Italian.
Content: Written Language: The study of the basic morphological
aspects of Italian grammar will be based on a textbook, with additional
use of specially prepared material. Students complete a graded
series of exercises in grammar and are introduced to brief translation
passages.
Spoken Language: conversation groups, role-playing, paired activities,
supervised audio-visual activities, also leading to written practice
in communicative contexts.
ESML0061: Italian written & spoken language 1B (ab initio)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW75 PR25
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To consolidate the knowledge
acquired in Semester 1, to complete the study of Italian grammar
and syntax, to widen students' general vocabulary, to introduce
them to the vocabulary of the press and contemporary writing,
and to extend their aural comprehension/oral skills to a larger
number of situations and contexts through contact with native
speakers and the use of audio-visual material. The objective is
to bring students to 'A' level standard by the end of the semester.
Content: Written Language: The study of Italian grammar
will be completed through the textbook already used in the Semester
1 module and will be integrated with handouts covering the more
complex topics in Italian grammar and syntax such as the subjunctive,
the gerund, and the sequence of tenses. Students work on grammar
exercises and prose/translation passages drawn from contemporary
sources.
Spoken Language: conversation groups, role-playing, paired activities,
supervised audio-visual activities leading to more creative and
contextualised written assignments, continue in this module.
ESML0062: Italian written & spoken language 1A (post A
level)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment:
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To consolidate students'
existing knowledge of Italian grammar and syntax, and to enable
them to deploy these structures correctly in written texts and
exercises. Aural comprehension and oral communication skills in
practical contexts are developed through the use of authentic
audio-visual material and class contact with native speakers.
Content: Written Language: a grammar text is used to revise
the fundamentals of the language and as a basis for regular exercises.
Translation texts are used to familiarise students with contemporary
written Italian, in particular the language of the press and modern
narrative.
Spoken Language: conversation groups, role-playing, supervised
audio-visual classes provide practice in the spoken language and
are used as a stimulus for creative written work.
ESML0063: Italian written & spoken language 1B (post A
level)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW75 PR25
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To expand students' knowledge
of Italian grammar and syntax and to enable them to deploy these
structures fluently and effectively in the production of written
texts and exercises. Aural comprehension and oral communication
skills are further extended through the use of advanced audio-visual
material and class contact with lectors.
Content: Written Language: more complex grammatical problems
are studied with the aid of specially prepared handouts and explored
through regular exercises. Excerpts from the Italian press and
other authentic sources are used to expand writing skills in more
formal contexts.
Spoken Language: the oral activities from Semester 1, such as
supervised audio-visual practice and role-playing, will continue
and equip students with more sophisticated communicative skills
for more formal contexts.
ESML0064: Italian cultural studies 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
some of the key periods in Italian cultural history. To study
the emergence of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema and
narrative and to analyse its political and social significance.
To familiarise students with the basic concepts of film narrative.
Content: The artistic and intellectual development of Italy
since the Renaissance and its importance for contemporary Italian
society. The Neorealist cinema, the key films of this movement,
their narrative techniques and their critical reception.
ESML0065: Italian politics & society 1A: Italian foundation
history (1860-1914)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To teach Italian economic,
social and political history from Unification to the First World
War in the context of European and international developments.
To enable students to develop critical and analytical skills for
an understanding of the study of history with particular reference
to Italian history. To make students familiar with essential political
terminology in Italian.
Content: The Unification of Italy. The difficult construction
of a sense of nationhood. Political liberalism and the emergence
of the transformist variant of parliamentary politics. The division
between 'legal Italy' and 'real Italy' in the nineteenth century.
Industrialisation and the emergence of organised labour. Political
Catholicism, anarchism and socialism. Economic liberalism and
protectionism. The rise of nationalism. Italy between neutrality
and intervention.
ESML0066: Italian cultural studies 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the main developments in Italian prose and poetry in the 19th
Century and to analyse a number of short contemporary texts. To
teach students to develop their critical and analytical skills.
Content: Lectures will cover selected prose and poetry
by the major 19th Century writers and will introduce students
to issues in women's writing. The seminars will concentrate on
contemporary short stories by men and women writers.
ESML0067: Italian politics & society 1B: Italian Fascism
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To teach Italian history
from the origins to the collapse of fascism in the context of
European and international developments. To further develop skills
in historical analysis and to introduce students to theories of
democracy and totalitarianism. To make students familiar with
cultural, sociological, political and economic interpretations
of fascism.
Content: Italy in the First World War. The 'biennio rosso'
and the origins of fascism. Mussolini's rise to power. The creation
of a fascist dictatorship. Fascism and national identity. Church
and State under fascism. Economic crisis and fascist economic
policies. Foreign policy. The alliance with Hitler. Italy in the
Second World War. The fall of Mussolini, the armistice and the
Resistance movement. Interpretations of fascism.
ESML0068: Italian written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To broaden students' command
of contemporary written Italian with greater emphasis on resolving
complex grammatical points; to build on the communication skills
acquired in the Year 1, and to improve oral proficiency and aural
comprehension.
Content: Written Language: prose and translation exercises
from a variety of literary and non-literary texts; general essays.
Spoken Language: role-playing, paired and group activities, dictation,
summarisation of audio-visual texts in Italian, reading, conversation
classes.
ESML0069: Italian written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 OR26 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on students' linguistic
competence as acquired in Semester 1. To expand students' vocabulary
in social and cultural areas and to develop sensitivity to style
and register.
Content: Written Language: prose and translation exercises
from a variety of literary and non-literary texts; general essays.
Spoken Language: role-playing, paired and group activities, dictation,
summarisation of audio-visual texts in Italian, reading, conversation
classes.
ESML0070: Italian cultural studies 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the textual
and cultural awareness acquired in Year 1 and to provide an overview
of Italian cultural production from the beginning of the 20th
Century. To develop students' critical awareness of the main intellectual
debates of the century.
Content: This core module will be based upon key examples
of Italian 20th Century novel, poetry, and short story, from the
primo Novecento to the Fascist period. Lectures and seminars will
address literary as well as social/political developments, such
as the Southern question, Fascism, and women's issues.
ESML0071: Italian politics & society 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide a historical
overview of the main political and social events of the post-war
period in Italy. To equip students with the appropriate analytical
skills to permit a critical evaluation of the period.
Content: The course will pay attention to the following
areas: the period of reconstruction; the effects of the Cold War
on Italy's domestic affairs; collective movements of the l960s
and l970s; the political system; the major political parties.
ESML0072: French cultural studies 2B, option 4: The problem
of the French church in drama & life
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
the problem of the French church in drama and in life.
Content: The unit examines the contrast between the intellectual
desire for renunciation of the world (Clandel; Montherlant) and
the church's need to involve itself in practical everyday life
(Catholic trades unions, the Ralliement, youth organisations,
the worker priests).
ESML0073: French cultural studies 2B, option 5: The study
of two 20th century prose writers
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
the study of two 20th Century French prose writers, Raymond Queneau
and Boris Vian.
Content: An introduction to the work of Raymond Queneau
and Boris Vian through a detailed examination of a number of individual
works by each author.
ESML0074: Italian written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To refine students' competence
in written and spoken Italian; to extend the range of terminology
and linguistic registers, including the political and economic.
To perfect students' skills in translating texts from and into
Italian in a variety of registers. To develop their summarisation
skills and enable them to express complex ideas and arguments
in writing. To draw upon students' periods of residence in Italy
in order to strengthen oral fluency and conversational skills.
Content: Written Language: prose, translation, summarisation
(in Italian); analysis of style and register (contemporary social,
political and literary).
Spoken Language: précis-writing, presentations, lector-organised
discussion and debate on issues linked to Year 4 Options and Italian
current affairs.
ESML0075: Italian written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX56 CW17 OR27
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To further develop and
consolidate students' skills in translating complex texts from
and into Italian, and in developing a sophisticated argument in
the form of a long essay in Italian. To enable students to converse
competently and fluently and to deliver sophisticated oral presentations
in Italian on social, political and cultural topics.
Content: Written Language: prose, translation, and essay
writing classes based on excerpts from the press, contemporary
writers and specialised journals.
Spoken Language: Oral presentations, lector-organised discussion
and debate on political, social and cultural topics.
ESML0076: Italian national option IT1: Territorial identities
& socio-political cultures in Italy
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This option examines the
persistence of territorial divisions in Italy. It addresses the
differences in economic development and social relationships between
different parts of Italy. Most important, it explores the ways
in which these differences have been shaped as sub-national identities
and territorial political subcultures, while the construction
of an "imagined community" has rarely coincided with
the nation-state. Recent tensions between territorial ad national
identity and politics will be discussed and analysed.
Content: Theoretical approaches to concepts of identity,
subculture, modernisation and trust. The persistence of local
and regional identities in Italy. Uneven development and the emergence
of "three Italies". The Catholic and communist territorial
political subcultures. Social and civic cultures. Old and new
perspectives on the "Southern problem". The Northern
League: ethno-regionalism? Territorial identities and national
politics.
ESML0077: Italian national option IT2: The novel, the cinema
& Italian society
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine how cinema and
narrative have cross-fertilized to produce an artistically satisfying
critique of Italian society. The unit will focus on three literary
texts and their reworking by leading directors. Attention will
be given to the narrative techniques appropriate to each medium,
to novel and film theory, to the problems of adaptation and to
the recurring theme of the relationship between the individual
and the political system in Italy.
Content: Tomasi di Lampedusa Il Gattopardo, Alberto
Moravia Il conformista and Leonardo Sciascia Il contesto.
Adaptations by Luchino Visconti, Bernardo Bertolucci and Francesco
Rosi.
ESML0078: Italian national option IT3: Scrittrici Italiane
del ventesimo secolo
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with
a general overview of 20th century Italian women's writing, an
in-depth knowledge of four texts by major Italian women writers,
an awareness of gender issues, and an understanding of the way
in which the narrative text functions. The unit will look at the
place of women in Italian literature both as objects of representation
and producers, through an analysis of texts which illustrate the
changes in the material and cultural situation of women which
have occurred in Italy during this century. Students will be encouraged
to make use of different modes of textual analysis, including
feminist theory.
Content: Grazia Deledda, Cosima (1937), Mondadori
(1986); Dacia Maraini, Donna in guerra (1975), Einaudi,
(1984); Fabrizia Ramondino, Althénopis, (1981) Einaudi,
(1996); Elsa Morante, Aracoeli, Einaudi, (1982). Taught
partly in Italian.
ESML0079: Italian national option IT4: Women in Italian society
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The role and position of
women in post-war Italy has undergone rapid change. These changes
have explicitly and implicitly challenged a number of core Italian
institutions and practices -the Family, the Church and the hegemony
of the political parties to define the political agenda and to
establish modes of political organization. This unit aims to examine
transformation in women's lives during the post-war period. It
will discuss the extent to which cultural, political and social
factors affect women's changing aspirations.
Content: The course will focus on the following areas:
women and the family, women and the family, women and work, the
women's movement, women in the political sphere and ethnic minority
women.
ESML0080: French cultural studies 2B, option 6: The study
of a major 19th century French novelist
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
the study of a major 19th Century French novelist.
Content: An introduction to the work of Gustave Flaubert
through the detailed examination of the novel, Madame Bovary.
ESML0081: Russian written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To consolidate knowledge
of basic grammar, broaden vocabulary and improve aural comprehension.
To develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday
conversation.
Content: Prose and essay composition; translation into
English; grammar revision; conversation.
Students must be qualified in Russian to approximately A-level
standard.
ESML0082: Russian written & spoken language 1A (ab initio)
Semester 1
Credits: 12
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide a systematic
grounding in the Russian language. To introduce students to the
main structures of Russian grammar and basic vocabulary. To develop
good pronunciation and intonation.
Content: The Colloquial Russian course with extensive use
of specially prepared explanatory material along with exercises
and drills from a variety of sources; pronunciation, intonation
and conversation practice; language laboratory work.
ESML0083: Russian cultural studies 1A: Introduction to Russian
culture (post A level)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To acquaint students with
some key texts of 19th century Russian literature and improve
translation skills.
Content: Set texts will normally include A S Pushkin, The
Queen of Spades and selected lyric poetry; I S Turgenev, Asya;
A P Chekhov, The Seagull.
Students must be qualified in Russian to approximately A-level
standard.
ESML0084: Russian written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To further consolidate
knowledge of basic grammar, broaden vocabulary and improve aural
comprehension. To further develop fluency in spoken Russian at
the level of everyday conversation.
Content: Prose and essay composition; translation into
English; grammar revision; conversation.
ESML0085: Russian written & spoken language 1B (ab initio)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX33 CW33 OR33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To continue a systematic
grounding in the Russian language up to approximately
A-level standard. To ensure that students acquire a firm grasp
of the main structures of Russian grammar and of basic vocabulary,
and are able to express themselves in a variety of contexts. To
develop the ability to take part in simple everyday conversation.
To develop reading ability to the point at which less complex
works of literature can be read with the aid of a dictionary.
Content: The Colloquial Russian course with extensive
use of specially prepared explanatory material along with exercises
and drills from a variety of sources; pronunciation, intonation
and conversation practice; language laboratory work.
ESML0086: Russian cultural studies 1B: Introduction to Russian
culture (ab initio)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To familiarise students
with literary Russian and introduce them to classical pre-Revolutionary
literature. To read (in Russian) and discuss a well-known literary
text.
Content: Lectures on the history of Russian literature;
reading and discussion of Chekhov's Lady with a Little Dog.
ESML0087: Russian politics & society 1A: Russia before
1917
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To permit post A-level
students of Russian (and others requiring a six-credit unit) to
make a more detailed study of topics covered in Russian Politics
and Society 1B.
Content: As for Russian Politics and Society 1B.
ESML0088: Russian politics & society 1B: Russia before
1917
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To offer an outline history
of Russia focusing on the geopolitical, social and cultural factors
which shaped its development and to examine in detail the problems
posed by industrial development and social change in the late
19th and early 20th centuries culminating in the revolution of
1917. To introduce some classic literary texts to illuminate the
moral and political dilemmas of the 19th century. To develop skills
in historical analysis.
Content: The first Russian states and the Tatar invasions;
the rise of Moscow and the development of an autocratic state
under Ivan III and Ivan IV; attempts at modernization and Westernization
in the 18th century under Peter I and Catherine II and the emergence
of Russia as a great European power; growing problems of serfdom,
economic backwardness and political disaffection under Nicholas
I (1825-1855); reform and reaction under Alexander II (1855-1881);
Russian society in the mid-19th century as reflected in Turgenev's
Fathers and Children; industrialization and its impact
on society; the emergence of a revolutionary movement; dilemmas
of Russian revolutionaries as reflected in Lenin's What is
to be Done?; Dostoevsky's critique of 19th century Russian
social values in Crime and Punishment; ethnic minorities
and national movements in the Russian Empire before 1917; women
and the women's movement before 1917; the revolution of 1905 and
the granting of a constitution by Nicholas II; the successes and
failures of constitutional rule 1906-1914; the First World War
and the collapse of the imperial regime in the February Revolution.
ESML0089: Russian written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To deepen knowledge of
Russian grammar, expand lexis and develop translation skills in
several registers. To give students practice in expressing themselves
in writing. To improve aural comprehension and to begin to develop
fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content: Written Language: systematic review of Russian
grammar with exercises and drills drawn from a variety of sources;
translations into Russian and English with discussion of grammatical
points, lexis etc. Essay writing in Russian with discussion of
stylistic points and vocabulary. Spoken Language: small group
conversation on a range of themes; role-playing; task-based use
of audio-visual material. To assist vocabulary acquisition, work
in written and spoken language will be organised around themes
of geography & peoples and culture & recreation.
ESML0090: Russian cultural studies 2A: Russian literature
from Chekhov to Zoshchenko
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To present an overview
of Russian literary development in these years; to encourage the
development of skills in literary analysis and criticism.
Content: Three writers (studied in key works): Chekov,
Blok, Zoshchenko
ESML0091: Russian politics & society 2A: Soviet Russia
1917-1985
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine the character
and evolution of the communist political and social order from
1917 to 1985. To develop skills in historical and political analysis
and essay and seminar techniques.
Content: The establishment of Bolshevik power under Lenin
1917-1921; the New Economic Policy and the struggle for power
in the Communist Party in the 1920s; Stalin's drive for industrialization
and rule by terror in the 1930s-40s; the USSR in the Second World
War; reform and its limits under Krushchev and Brezhnev in the
1950s-70s; the structure and problems of the Soviet political
system in the early 1980s.
ESML0092: Russian written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX33 CW33 OR25 OT12
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To deepen knowledge of
Russian grammar, expand lexis and develop translation skills in
several registers. To give students practice in expressing themselves
in writing. To improve aural comprehension to the point at which
the gist of a TV news item can be understood and to develop fluency
in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content: Written Language: systematic review of Russian
grammar with exercises and drills drawn from a variety of sources;
translations into Russian and English with discussion of grammatical
points, lexis etc. Essay writing in Russian with discussion of
stylistic points and vocabulary. Spoken Language: small group
conversation on a range of themes; role-playing; task-based use
of audio-visual material. To assist vocabulary acquisition, work
in written and spoken language will be organised around themes
of social issues, history and politics.
ESML0093: Russian cultural studies 2B: Soviet Russian literature
& cinema in the 1920's & 1930's
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To present an overview
of Russian literary development in these years; to encourage the
development of skills in literary analysis and criticism.
Content: Two writers (studied in key works): Olesha, Akhmatova.
Films by Eisenstein.
ESML0094: Russian politics & society 2B: Reform &
reconstruction in Russia since 1985
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine the reform and
collapse of the communist order between 1985 and 1991 and the
ensuing problem of economic and political reconstruction. To develop
skills in historical and political analysis, and essay and seminar
techniques.
Content: The origins, development and failure of Gorbachev's
reform programme 1985-91; ethnic and social developments in the
post-Stalin USSR and their bearing on the collapse of communism;
the Russian Federation and its neighbours after the disintegration
of the USSR; Yeltsin's attempt to build democracy and a market
economy in Russia.
ESML0095: Russian written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To consolidate knowledge
of Russian grammar, further expand lexis and further develop translation
skills. To enable students to translate modern literary Russian
and non-technical academic and journalistic Russian, into English.
To enable students to translate selected English passages into
Russian, and to express ideas and arguments in writing. To improve
fluency in spoken Russian.
Content: Written Language: translation into and from Russian
and discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Conversation
and audio-visual classes. Spoken Language: discussion of selected
topics on a range of themes (ecology, social issues, feminism
etc).
ESML0096: Russian written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX33 CW33 OR25 OT8
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To consolidate knowledge
of Russian grammar, further expand lexis and further develop translation
skills. To enable students to translate modern literary Russian
and non-technical academic and journalistic Russian, into English
with minimal use of a dictionary. To enable students to translate
selected English passages into idiomatic Russian, and to express
complex ideas and arguments in writing. To develop fluency in
spoken Russian.
Content: Written Language: translation into and from Russian
and discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Conversation
and audio-visual classes. Spoken Language: discussion of selected
topics on a range of themes (culture, politics in Russia etc).
ESML0097: Russian national option R1A: Women in Russia &
the USSR 1
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0098
Aims & Learning Objectives: This unit and its post-requisite
will focus on the role and status of women in the Soviet and post-Soviet
periods. In this first unit a largely chronological approach will
be adopted to the subject of the 'zhenskii vopros' from 1917 to
1994.
Content: We shall discuss the realities of women's lives
in various spheres, such as politics, employment, voluntary work
and personal and family lives, and also the official ideology.
A persistent theme will be the discrepancy between practice and
theory, and the reasons for this discrepancy will be explored
within the wider context of developments in politics.
ESML0098: Russian national option R1B: Women in Russia &
the USSR 2
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Co ESML0097
Aims & Learning Objectives: This unit and its post-requisite
will focus on the role and status of women in the Soviet and post-Soviet
periods. In this second unit attention will be paid to women writers
and directors, from the 1920s to the present with some discussion
of the perception of women in male-centred works.
Content: Works studied include: Alexandra Kollontai, Love
of Worker Bees; Lidia Chukovskaia, Sofia Petrovna;
Natal'ia Baranskaia, A Week Like Any Other; Julia Voznesenskaia,
The Women's Decameron; Liudmila Petrushevskaya, Night
Time. Films to be discussed include: Moscow Distrusts Tears
(1979), Little Vera (1988), Interdevochka (1989).
ESML0099: Russian national option R2: The twentieth century
Russian novel
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 ES33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: The novel is arguably Russia's
greatest contribution to West European culture in the 19th and
20th centuries. This unit concentrates on some of the greatest
works of the 20th century, exploring the human effects of the
cataclysms and conflicts that comprise most of Russia's history
of the last seventy years.
Content: Among the works to be studied are the following
(subject to availability); M Bulgakov, Master i Margarita*;
E Zamiatin, My; A Solzhenitsyn, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha;
B Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago*; I Babel', Konarmiia;
N Ostrovskii, Kak Zakalialas' stal'.
* As these novels are fairly long, you are advised to read them
before the start of the academic year.
ESML0101: Russian national option R4: Gorbachev & Perestroika
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To investigate political
and social developments in the years 1985-1991 in greater depth
than was possible in RPS 2B.
Content: Origins of perestroika; glasnost and democratization;
independent politics, social activity and the emergence of a multi-party
system; nationalities issues and conflicts; the collapse of communism
and the August coup.
ESML0102: Russian national option R5: Politics in post-communist
Russia
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To examine the dilemmas
of economic and political reconstruction and of external relations
posed by the collapse of the communist political order in Russia,
and efforts to resolve these problems since August 1991.
To develop skills in political analysis and seminar techniques.
Content: Political institutions and actors in Russia in
August 1991; dimensions of the crisis surrounding the collapse
of Soviet communism; theoretical approaches to transition; first
steps of the political leadership; reform and political conflict;
dilemmas of foreign policy; political elites; civil society; political
culture; 1993 Constitution; elections and party formation; legal
order and corruption; local government; federalism and ethnic
politics; the experience of other former republics of the USSR;
prospects.
ESML0103: Europe 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide a grounding
in the key economic ideas which have shaped Europe and to understand
the way these ideas have been applied to post-war Europe; to provide
students with a framework which will enable them to compare the
experiences of different countries and understand similarities
and differences; to compare the experiences of East and Western
Europe in the post-war period. The course is intended to complement
nation-specific Politics and Society courses in the relevant language
of the MLES degree programme
Content: European economy in the inter-war years; post-war
and Cold War; economic recovery in Western Europe; the age of
growth; crisis and unemployment; the command economy and its aftermath
in Eastern Europe.
ESML0104: Europe 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide a grounding
in the key political ideas which have shaped Europe and to understand
the way these ideas have been applied to post-war Europe; to provide
students with a framework which will enable them to compare the
experiences of different countries and understand similarities
and differences; to compare the experiences of East and Western
Europe in the post-war period. The course is intended to complement
nation-specific Politics and Society courses in the relevant language
of the MLES degree programme
Content: Nationalism and nation-states; democracy and democratic
institutions; the legislative and executive functions; political
parties and electoral systems; pressure groups; local government;
political culture; transitions to democracy in East and Central
Europe
ESML0105: Europe 2A: Politics of the European Union
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
key theories of European integration; to trace the development
of the E.C. from the 1950s to the present; to examine issues of
contemporary relevance to European integration. Students will
develop an awareness and understanding of European integration
issues and be able to discuss them on the basis of background
knowledge attained during lectures and readings.
Content: Theories of European integration; the origins
of the E.C.; the Rome Treaty and the Single Act; Britain and the
E.C; the road to Maastricht; the institutions of the E.C. and
E.U.; the democratic deficit; the 1996 Inter Governmental Conference;
the E.U. as a world actor; the future of the E.U.
ESML0106: Europe 2B: Economics of the European Union
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 ES33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the economic principles guiding European integration and to trace
the development of the E.C. from free trade area to customs union
to economic policy coordination and moves towards economic and
monetary union; to familiarise students with economic terms and
theories used in E.C. policy-making; to discuss possible scenarios
for the future of European economic integration. Having followed
this course students will be better able to follow developments
in European economic integration and understand the workings of
economic and monetary union
Content: Intra-E.C. trade; EFTA; customs union; the Single
Market initiative; the exchange rate mechanism; economic and monetary
union.
ESML0107: European option E1: Intellectuals, commitment &
identity in contemporary Europe
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To study the changing public
role of intellectuals in Eastern and Western Europe between 1945
and the present. In particular, to examine a variety of intellectual
responses to the issue of commitment to ideological causes, in
the context of the Cold War division of Europe. To consider the
impact of the international watersheds of 1968 and 1989 on established
political loyalties. To assess the extent to which intellectuals
have contributed to the evolution of national identities, or sought
to distance themselves from national aspirations, both before
and after 1989. To analyse a representative selection of literary
texts by intellectuals who have played a prominent part in European
political debate, as evidence of the continuing significance of
their creative writing.
Content: A framework of lectures will provide a range of
national and historical perspectives on the dilemmas faced by
European intellectuals since 1945. Emphasis will be placed not
only on the national contexts with which MLES students will be
most familiar (German, Russian, French , Italian) but on the international
significance of the Central European experience, as exemplified
by the work of Czech and Polish intellectuals. Works by intellectuals
such as Barzini, Konwicki, Wolf, Grass, Schneider, Kundera and
Klima will be studied in depth in the seminars which form the
core of the unit.
ESML0108: European option E2: The audiovisual media in contemporary
Europe - political & cultural perspectives
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To assess the nature, scope
and effectiveness of contemporary European initiatives in the
sphere of audiovisual broadcasting. To examine the specific nature
of audiovisual developments in the individual nation states of
Europe, and to evaluate the manner in which national audiovisual
policies and practices relate one with another and with the broader
European framework. To compare and contrast regional, national
and European audiovisual developments. To examine the political
and cultural significance of the audiovisual media as a force
for the fostering and development of regional, national and European
identities. To analyse the nature and quality of audiovisual programming:
regional, national, cross-national and European. To assess the
significance of rapid technological change for the audiovisual
media, and to evaluate the consequent impact of such technological
change on the political behaviour and cultural pursuits of the
citizens of Europe.
Content: A framework of lectures will provide: (i) a brief
historical overview of European audiovisual developments since
1945; (ii) an account of the specific nature of the audiovisual
sphere in the major nation states of Europe, together with an
assessment of the manner in which those nation states fit into
the wider European picture; and (iii) a broad assessment of the
contemporary European audiovisual sphere and an examination of
future potential lines of development as we approach the 21st
century. Seminar work will be focused on comparative cross-national
and European perspectives. Students will be encouraged to build
on those national contexts with which they are most familiar (UK,
France, Germany, Italy, Russia) in order to deepen their understanding
of the role played by the audiovisual media in the construction
of Europe.
ESML0109: French cultural studies 2B, option 7: Camus &
the Algerian question
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
an analysis of Camus and the Algerian question, 1948-1960.
Content: This option will examine the social and moral
dilemmas posed by the French colonization of Algeria, as exemplified
in the life and work of Camus. Analysis of texts such as L'Exil
et le royaume, La Chute and Le Premier homme will be
used to explore Camus's ambivalent relationship with his native
country, and the conflicting demands of political evolution and
personal authenticity.
ESML0110: European option E3: European film 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES50 CW50
Requisites: Co ESML0111
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop an understanding
of the nature and role of cinema in contemporary Europe, through
the study of concepts of personal, national and European identity,
and the detailed analysis of a wide range of European films
Content: This course will focus upon film as personal statement,
and will analyses selected works of directors in West and East
Europe with specific reference to questions of identity, memory,
autobiographical narrative and point of view.
ESML0111: European option E4: European film 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Co ESML0110
Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop further the
understanding of the nature and role of contemporary European
film by tracing the relationship between personal memory and identity,
and history and ideology; to examine the concept of myth and identity.
Content: In this course the personal visions of directors
in West and East Europe will be analysed within the broader context
of history, ideology and myth. Areas for investigation include
the comparative and shared histories of European film; the legacy
of the Third Reich; women and history; marginal identities; ideology;
film and contemporary European society.
ESML0112: French cultural studies 2B, option 8: Images of
conflict: the French at war
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
an analysis of Images of Conflict: the French at War.
Content: This option will examine the French experience
of warfare in the twentieth century, as expressed in literature
and film. The principal focus will be on the period from 1940
to the early 1960s, and will include the themes of armed conflict,
occupation, exile, war crimes, and colonial war. Examples for
analysis will include novel, drama, poetry and film.
ESML0271: French politics & society 2B, option 1: Regional
policy in the Fifth Republic
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to an analysis of Regional Policy in the Fifth Republic.
Content: This option will examine the progress towards
decentralisation brought about during the Fifth Republic, and
specifically since 1981, against a background of historic centralisation
of both government and administration in France. It will also
explore the potential for a French contribution to the regional
debate at a European level. Taught in French.
ESML0272: French politics & society 2B, option 2: 'Capitale
et province'
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to an analysis of 'Capitale et province'.
Content: This option will examine the French experience
of regional and provincial identities, and of 'Paris et le désert
français' from social, political, cultural and linguistic
perspectives. The emphasis will be on ways in which difference
is asserted in the face of modern tendencies towards sameness
and globalization, with analysis of a wide range of historical
and modern texts and visual material. Taught in French.
ESML0273: French politics & society 2B, option 3: The
role & position of women in French society
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to the role and position of women in French society.
Content: This unit will examine the role and position of
women in French society. The course will analyse women's rights
in terms of legislation (divorce, abortion, the notion of equality)
and explore women's involvement in the labour market, politics
and government. Taught in French.
ESML0274: French politics & society 2B, option 4: French
local politics
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to French local politics
Content: The focus of the course will be the analysis of
political behaviour in the local/regional context. Particular
attention will be paid to the sociological and cultural factors
that shape patterns of electoral behaviour. Taught in French.
ESML0275: French politics & society 2B, option 5: Rural
society in contemporary France
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to Rural society in contemporary France.
Content: The focus of the course will be the development
of French rural society. It will examine the recent history of
the countryside and how rural communities have adapted to the
pressures of social and economic change. Taught in French.
ESML0276: French politics & society 2B, option 6: The
experience of women during the Second World War
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to the experience of women during the Second World War.
Content: This unit will explore the experience of women
during the Second World War, the Occupation and Liberation. It
will examine the ways in which French women developed strategies
for survival and how some were drawn towards collaboration or
resistance. It will analyse the importance of the Liberation and
its impact on women's lives. Taught in French.
ESML0277: French politics & society 2B, option 7: La France:
une société au pluriel
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to La France: une societé au pluriel.
Content: Changing social structures in France; social reproduction
and mobility; the nature and effects of the French educational
system; the social backgrounds of political, administrative and
business elites; case-studies of persisting social disadvantage
in France. Taught in French.
ESML0278: French politics & society 2B, option 8: Political
communication from party & individual
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to an analysis of political communication from party and individual.
Content: This option will examine the increasing use of
political communication in the Fifth Republic, tracing how the
development of mass communication has led to the increasing 'sophistication'
of presentation of the political message. It will also provide
students with the tools to analyse political communication within
the French context. Taught in French.
ESML0279: French politics & society 2B, option 9: France
coming to terms with the German occupation of 1940-44
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so
far to an analysis of France coming to terms with the German Occupation
of 1940-1944 some fifty years on.
Content: This option will examine the ways in which France
has come to terms with the Occupation of 1940-1944, by taking
post-war events and individuals connected with the Occupation
(e.g. Paul Touvier, René Bousque, François Mitterrand,
Maurice Papon) and investigating reactions to those events and
individuals. Taught in French.
ESML0280: Italian cultural studies 2B, option 1: Luigi Pirandello
& Italo Svevo
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build upon the knowledge
acquired during the core module in Semester 1 and to explore in
depth: Decadentismo: Luigi Pirandello and Italo Svevo
Content: This option will look at the central role of Pirandello
and Svevo in creating Italian modernism (Decadentismo), taking
account of developments in both narrative and theatre and will
place them in the wider context of European modernism.
ESML0281: Italian cultural studies 2B, option 2: Post-war
Italian cinema
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build upon the knowledge
acquired during the core module in Semester 1 and to explore in
depth: Post-War Italian Cinema
Content: This option will examine the works of three directors
(Visconti, Fellini, and Antonioni) whose films set the tone and
created the international reputation of the Italian cinema in
the 1960s.
ESML0282: Italian cultural studies 2B, option 3: Post-war
Italian narrative
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build upon the knowledge
acquired during the core module in Semester 1 and to explore in
depth: Post-War Italian narrative.
Content: This option will consider a range of writers from
the end of the Neorealist period (Pavese) to three younger writers
of the eighties and nineties, including a number of women novelists.
ESML0283: Italian politics & society 2B, option 1: Migratory
movements & migrants in post-war Italy
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To explore aspects of post-war
Italian Politics and Society and to build on the development of
skills in political and social analysis: Migratory movements and
migrants in post-war Italy.
Content: This option explores a variety of migratory processes
to and from Italy since 1945. It considers both internal and external
migratory trends and studies in some detail some communities of
Italians abroad and recent migrants who have settled in Italy.
ESML0284: Italian politics & society 2B, option 2: Political
scandals in Italy since 1945
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To explore aspects of post-war
Italian Politics and Society and to build on the development of
skills in political and social analysis: Political scandals in
Italy since 1945.
Content: This option examines some of the most alarming
threats Italian democracy has had to contend with, including attempted
coups d'etat, secret masonic lodges, the kidnapping and murder
of Aldo Moro, as well as the Mafia.
ESML0285: Italian politics & society 2B, option 3: Italy
since the end of the Cold War
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To explore aspects of post-war
Italian Politics and Society and to build on the development of
skills in political and social analysis:.
Content: Since 1989 Italy has undergone what has been described
as a 'silent revolution'. This option will explore the changes
that have occurred in the country in recent times, focusing on
the political system but also with reference to the socio-economic
sphere.
ESML0294: European option E5: In search of Europe (1) - Europe
divided
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To explore the concept
of Europe 1945-1989. To discuss the implications for both Western
and Eastern Europe of Soviet-American rivalries during the Cold
War.
Content: The Cold War; strengths and weaknesses of the
Soviet bloc before 1989; Cold War and détente in Western
Europe (1960s-1980s); 1989 and the collapse of Cold War era political
systems
ESML0295: European option E6: In search of Europe (2) - Europe
in the 1990s: towards unification?
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To explore the concept
of Europe since 1989, examining the nature of European, national
and regional identities.
Content: Immediate consequences of 1989; the resurgence
of particularism; forces for integration.
ESML0296: French cultural studies 2B: option 9: French neo-Greek
drama
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
French neo-Greek drama.
Content: The unit examines French neo-Greek plays in the
period 1920-1945 and seeks to evaluate the conspicuously theatrical
aspects. It will also consider why playwrights chose to return
to classical mythology for their subject matter.
ESML0297: French cultural studies 2B: option 10: French drama
1920-1950
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the experience
of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to
French Drama 1920-1950 (the plays as allegories of events in the
real world).
Content: The unit examines a series of important French
plays of the pre-war, Occupation and immediate post-war periods
and seeks to establish the extent to which these works were allegorical
as distinct from purely theatrical dramas.
ESML0298: French politics & society 2B: option 10: La
France dans le monde
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build on the students'
knowledge of French politics by analysing the main features of
French foreign policy in the principal areas of the world where
significant French influence still prevails.
Content: This option will examine two main issues. First,
the foreign policy-making process in Fifth Republic France. Second,
the evolution of French diplomacy with regard to the key issues
and regions of the post-war world: NATO and the Atlantic system,
European integration, Africa, the Arab world, the Pacific. The
student group will have the chance of broad coverage or of concentration
on a restricted number of regions.
ESML0300: Year abroad
Academic Year
Credits: 60
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To promote the development
of high-level language skills in an appropriate foreign environment;
To acquire personal experience and understanding of the appropriate
foreign culture(s).
Content: To carry out an agreed programme or programmes
of work and/or study in a foreign environment appropriate to the
students language combination. The nature, scope and assessment
is determined by the choice of language(s), placement(s) and country/countries,
in consultation with Year Abroad Coordinators, Course Tutors,
Personal Tutors and Director of Studies.
MANG0040: European integration studies 1
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide a basic grounding
in the theory, politics and economics of European integration.
Students will complete the course with a sound knowledge of European
Union institutions and key economic policies.
Content: Subjects covered will be: integration theory;
EU political institutions, their legitimacy and their accountability;
the EU decision-making process; EC finances and funds; the single
market and Europe's lost competitiveness; competition policy;
the EU, world trade and developing countries; regional policy;
economic and monetary union; the enlargement of the EU, the EEA
and Central and Eastern Europe.
Lectures will be supplemented by case study discussions, tutorial
sessions and a revision workshop.
MANG0059: European integration studies 2
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Pre MANG0040
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an advanced
knowledge of the impact of European policies on individuals, managements
and work organisations in the European Union. Students will complete
the course unit with a detailed knowledge of social, environmental
and sectoral impacts of integration and how business interests
can influence the EU decision-making process.
Content: Subjects covered will be: Social and employment
policy issues and the firm; EU environment policy and its impact
upon business and communities; the harmonisation of company law;
sectoral impacts of the single market and business strategies;
lobbying the EU; transport policy and trans-European networks;
implementation of EC law; the future direction of the EU.
Lectures will be supplemented by case study discussions, a decision-making
game, and tutorial sessions.
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