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German and History BA

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

If you’re passionate about history but also dream of spending time in Germany and becoming fluent in the language – how do you choose which degree to study? We say, choose both!

This joint honours course allows you to combine your curiosity for human experience with your love of communicating in another language.

Many of our students say the year abroad is their course highlight. Not only do you have the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the German language and culture, but spending time abroad can make you more independent and confident. 

Indicative modules

Mandatory

Year 1

Learning History

Mandatory

Year 1

Introduction to German Studies

Optional

Year 1

German 1

Optional

Year 1

German 1: Beginners

Optional

Year 1

Deutschland Heute

Optional

Year 1

Sex, Gender and Society in Modern Germany

Optional

Year 1

Language Meaning, Variation and Change

Optional

Year 1

From Dictatorship to Democracy

Optional

Year 1

Roads to Modernity: An Introduction to Modern History 1750-1945

Optional

Year 1

The Contemporary World since 1945

Optional

Year 1

Making the Middle Ages 500-1500

Optional

Year 1

Themes in Early Modern History

Optional

Year 2

German 2

Optional

Year 2

German 2 - Beginners

Optional

Year 2

Leben und Arbeiten in Deutschland: Introduction to Contemporary Germany

Optional

Year 2

Life and Demise of the GDR

Optional

Year 2

Introduction to Literary Translation

Optional

Year 2

Reason and its Rivals: From Kant to Freud

Optional

Year 2

Contemporary Translation Studies

Optional

Year 2

From Dictatorship to Democracy

Optional

Year 2

History of German language from early beginnings to the present day

Optional

Year 2

Sex, Gender and Society in Modern Germany

Optional

Year 2

Exploring the German Archive: Ideology and State in Newspaper Cuttings and Family Papers

Optional

Year 2

Investigating the German Language

Optional

Year 2

From Democracy to Volksgemeinschaft

Optional

Year 2

Consumers & Citizens: Society & Culture in 18th Century England

Optional

Year 2

Central European History: From Revolution to War, 1848-1914

Optional

Year 2

British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the World Wars, 1895-1939

Optional

Year 2

The Victorians: Life, Thought and Culture

Optional

Year 2

The Second World War and Social Change in Britain, 1939-1951: Went The Day Well?

Optional

Year 2

The Rise of Modern China

Optional

Year 2

Liberating Africa: Decolonisation, Development and the Cold War, 1919-1994

Optional

Year 2

Heroes and Villains in the Middle Ages

Optional

Year 2

Sex, Lies and Gossip? Women of Medieval England

Optional

Year 2

International History of the Middle East and North Africa 1918-1995

Optional

Year 2

Imagining 'Britain': Decolonising Tolkien et al

Optional

Year 2

Kingship in Crisis: Politics, People and Power in Late-medieval England

Optional

Year 2

Sexuality in Early Medieval Europe

Optional

Year 2

Environmental History: Nature and the Western World, 1800-2000

Optional

Year 2

Soviet State and Society

Optional

Year 2

The Venetian Republic, 1450-1575

Optional

Year 2

European Fascisms, 1900-1945

Optional

Year 2

De-industrialisation: A Social and Cultural History, c.1970-1990

Optional

Year 2

The British Empire from Emancipation to the Boer War

Optional

Year 2

Rule and Resistance in Colonial India, c.1757-1857

Optional

Year 2

Poverty, Disease and Disability: Britain, 1795-1930

Optional

Year 2

Travel and Adventure in the Medieval World

Optional

Year 2

Rethinking the Tudors: Monarchy, Society and Religion in England, 1485-1603

Optional

Year 2

The politics of memory in postwar Western Europe

Optional

Year 2

Commodities, Consumption and Connections the Global World of Things 1500-1800

Optional

Year 2

Gender, Empire, Selfhood: Transgender History in Global Context

Optional

Year 2

African American History and Culture

Optional

Year 2

Exile and Homeland: Jewish Culture, Thought and Politics in Modern Europe and Mandatory Palestine between 1890 and 1950

Optional

Year 2

The Tokugawa World: 1600-1868

Optional

Year 2

Conquerors, Caliphs, and Converts: The Making of the Islamic World, c.600-800

Optional

Year 2

A Protestant Nation? Politics, Religion and Society in England, 1558-1640

Optional

Year 2

"Slaves of the Devil" and Other Witches: A History of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Optional

Year 2

The Early Modern Global Spanish Empire (1450-1850)

Optional

Year 2

In the Heart of Europe: Histories of Modern Poland

Optional

Year 2

A Tale of Seven Kingdoms: Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age England from Bede to Alfred the Great

Optional

Year 2

Villains or Victims: White Women and the British Empire c.1840-1980

Optional

Year 2

France and its Empire(s) 1815-1914

Optional

Year 2

Employing the Arts

Optional

Year 2

Arts Work Placement Module

Mandatory

Year 3

Year abroad

Mandatory

Year 4

German 3

Optional

Year 4

Mythology in German Literature

Optional

Year 4

Language of Social Media

Optional

Year 4

Communicating and Teaching Languages for Undergraduate Ambassadors

Optional

Year 4

German Studies: Dissertation

Optional

Year 4

Zero Hour: Germany, Poland, and post-war reconstruction in Europe, 1945-1955

Optional

Year 4

The British Civil Wars c.1639-1652

Optional

Year 4

Sexuality and Society in Britain Since 1900

Optional

Year 4

Alternatives to War: Articulating Peace since 1815

Optional

Year 4

Windrush and the (Re)Making of a Nation: Myth and Memory

Optional

Year 4

Early Medieval England in the Age of Bede

Optional

Year 4

Faith and Fire: Popular Religion in Late Medieval England

Optional

Year 4

The Black Death

Optional

Year 4

British Culture in the Age of Mass Production, 1920-1950

Optional

Year 4

The 1960s and the West, 1958-1974

Optional

Year 4

The Reign of Richard II

Optional

Year 4

Russia in Revolution 1905-21

Optional

Year 4

'World wasting itself in blood': Europe and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

Optional

Year 4

Rebels Against Empire: Anticolonialism and British Imperialism in the Mid-20th Century

Optional

Year 4

Life during wartime: crisis, decline and transformation in 1970s america

Optional

Year 4

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Drugs for Pleasure and Pain in the History of Medicine

Optional

Year 4

Italy and the Second World War

Optional

Year 4

Cultures of Power and the Power of Culture in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

Optional

Year 4

Britain in the Age of the French Revolution: 1789-1803

Optional

Year 4

Victorians in Italy: Travelling South in the Nineteenth Century

Optional

Year 4

The Chimera: British Imperialism and Its Discontents, 1834-1919

Optional

Year 4

Disease and Domination: The History of Medicine and the Colonial Encounter

Optional

Year 4

The past that won’t go away: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Optional

Year 4

Plague, Fire and the Reimagining of the Capital 1600-1720: The Making of Modern London

Optional

Year 4

Slavery, Caste and Capitalism: Labouring Lives in Global History, 1750-2000

Optional

Year 4

Napoleonic Europe and its Aftermath, 1799-1848

Optional

Year 4

Overseas Exploration, European Diplomacy, and the Rise of Tudor England

Optional

Year 4

European colonialism and the boundary of the human in the long eighteenth century

Optional

Year 4

From Serfdom to Stalin: Rural Life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1853-1932

Optional

Year 4

The Hundred Years War: Europe at War, c. 1337-1453

Optional

Year 4

‘Slaves of the Devil’ and Other Witches: A History of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Optional

Year 4

The three faces of Eve: Jewish Christian and Muslim women in Medieval Iberia

Optional

Year 4

Crisis, What Crisis? The West, c. 1970 to 2000

Optional

Year 4

A historical journey through Italy's links with the wider world

Optional

Year 4

Politics, culture, and sexuality in Renaissance and baroque Rome

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Wednesday 15 January 2025. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

My [language] studies have helped me to develop excellent communication skills, as well as helping me to hone my reading, writing, listening and speaking skills for both my target languages.  I have also become a much more resilient learner, being able to persevere when things start to get tough and independently solve issues where possible.

Charlotte Allwood

French and Contemporary Chinese Studies BA

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