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European Studies and Modern Languages Unit Catalogue
ECOI0040: International relations 1: A history of international
relations theory
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this Unit is to provide students with an understanding of the main
concepts, theories and perspectives used to study international relations, and
to introduce them to the historical development of those aspects of international
relations theory that are relevant today. By examining how different types of
historical international systems have existed in the past, what caused wars
to occur and what helped to maintain peace, students will have a better idea
of the causes of conflict and cooperation today. Learning objectives: By the
end of this course unit students should be able to do the following:
* identify the main perspectives of international relations
* explain the key Western thinkers and their ideas which contributed to the
main perspectives on international relations
* explain how the key thinkers, ideas and concepts are related to the development
of different historic international systems. Although the unit can be studied
as a self-contained module, it forms part of a specialist stream in international
relations with ECOI0041.
Content:
An historical survey of the main theories of international relations and the
main historical state-systems in which they arose: the Greek-state system, the
middle ages, the Renaissance and the emergence of the modern state system. The
course unit examines a series of important, enduring questions in international
relations theory about international systems: (1) what were the origins of different
international systems; (2) what factors contributed to order and stability;
and (3) what factors promoted not only disorder and instability, but also system-wide
change, the change to to an entirely different type of international system.
Key texts: Michael Doyle,'Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism'.
Torbjorn Knutsen,'A History of International Relations Theory'. Joseph Nye,'Understanding
International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory And History'.
ECOI0041: International relations 2: contemporary international
relations
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aims of this Unit are to provide students with an understanding of how contemporary
thinkers have contributed to the main perspectives of international relations;
to consider the impact of globalisation on international relations; to show
how international conflict has changed in the twentieth century, particularly
since the end of the Cold War; to provide students with an understanding of
how diplomacy has changed in the twentieth century. Learning objectives: By
the end of the course unit students should be able to:
* critically evaluate the main perspectives of international relations
* explain the impact of the end of the Cold War on global security
* explain what international relations scholars mean by globalisation, and critically
evaluate what impact it has had on international relations
* explain how the changing nature of international conflict has posed new challenges
for humanitarian organisations in developing countries Although the unit can
be studied as a self-contained module, it forms part of a specialist stream
in international relations with ECOI0040.
Content:
Topics include how International Relations has changed since the end of the
Cold War, the State, and non-state actors, the balance of power, problems of
diplomacy, international organisation, war and international conflict, nationalism,
religion and international stability and international political economy. A
set of themes emerge from these topics that are ethical in nature: the relationship
between order and justice, state sovereignty and humanitarian intervention,
the nature and meaning of international obligation in a society of sovereign
states, the idea of universal human rights and cultural relativism, and ways
of maintaining international order: the balance of power, international regimes,
and new approaches to global governance. Key texts: J. Goldstein,'International
Relations'. C. Kegley and E. Wittkopf,'World Politics: Trend and Transformation'.
Gordon Graham,'Ethics and International Relations'.
ECOI0042: Politics of developing countries: ethnicity,
religion and nationalism
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
Requisites: Pre ECOI0078
Aims & learning objectives:
Two of the most important developments at the end of the Twentieth Century are
the global spread of democracy and the resurgence of religion, ethnicity and
nationalism in politics. Therefore the aim of the Unit is to provide students
with an understanding of the ongoing saliency of ethnicity, religion and nationalism
to the politics of selected post-communist and developing countries. The learning
objectives are that by the end of the course unit students should be able to:
* critically evaluate the role of ethnicity, religion and nationalism in the
main perspectives of development
* understand the role of religion and revolution in South Africa, Poland and
Latin America
* understand the role of Islam in different types of Muslim countries
* understand how religion challenges the secular state in India, Turkey, Algeria
and Egypt. Although the unit can be studied as a self-contained module, it forms
part of a specialist stream in the Policy Process and Politics of Development
with ECOI0043 Governance and the Policy Process in Developing Countries and
ECOI0080 Policy and Politics.
Content:
Introduction to the politics of developing countries; the concepts of ethnicity,
religion and nationalism; the transition to democracy; the consolidation of
democracy. Case studies of: Poland, Yugoslavia, South Africa, Turkey, India,
Algeria, Egypt and Latin America. Key texts: J. Esposito and J. Voll,'Islam
and Democracy'. Jeff Haynes,'Religion and Politics in the Third World'. Jeff
Haynes,'Religion in Global Politics'. David Westerlund (ed),'Questioning the
Secular State'.
ECOI0043: Governance and the policy process in developing
countries
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this Unit is to provide an explanation of the dynamics of governance
and the workings of the policy process in developing countries. The learning
objectives are that students should develop a critical undetstanding of the
policy process in the developing country context, applying and extending their
knowledge of the key concepts of power and the institutions through which it
is expresed. This unit can be studied as a self-contained module, which complements
in particular ECOI0023 Social Change and Development. It also forms part of
a specialist stream in the Policy Process and Politics of Development with ECOI0042
The Politics of Developing Countries: Religion, Ethnicity and Nationalism and
ECOI0080 Policy and Politic.
Content:
Good governance: the genesis of the concept, its practical implication. State,
non-state and civil society actors in development. Policy formulation and implementation
in developing countries; policy networks; the roles of external doners; corruption.
Institutionalizing good governance, promoting inclusionary practice. Key texts:
Grindle and Thomas,'Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy
of Reform in Developing Countries'. Turner and Hulme,'Governance, Administration
and Development'. R. Rhodes,'Understanding Governance'. Wuyts, Marc. Mackintosh,
Maureen and hewitt, Tom (eds),'Development Policy and Public Action. Oxford:
Oxford University Press/Open University. R Grillo and R L Stirrat (eds) 1997.
Discourses of Development. Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford: Berg.
ECOI0081: Economic organisation of the European Community
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 ES20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this course unit is to apply introductory microeconomic and macroeconomic
principles to a range of European policy areas. The learning objective is that
students will have enhanced their understanding of European economic issues
begun in The Modern World Economy and to demonstrate the value of theoretical
analysis.
Content:
The following topics will be covered: EU trade policy and the economics of customs
unions; Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies of the EU; fiscal harmonisation
and EU budgetary policy; EU environmental policy; EU industrial and competition
policy; European Monetary Union and exchange rate arrangements. Key texts: T.
Hitiris,'European Union Economics'. M.J. Artis and N. Lee (eds),'The Economics
of the European Union'. A. El-Agraa (ed),'The European Union'.
ESML0001: French written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To stimulate the production of authentic and accurate written and spoken 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) Translation: varieties of register, written translation from French into
English, introduction to essay writing. (b) Grammar/creative writing: introduction
to résumé, systematic practical grammar course, introduction to
CALL multimedia, development of lexis. (c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text
recreation, controlled oral production, course-related conversation sessions.
ESML0002: French written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0001
Aims & learning objectives:
To stimulate the production of authentic and accurate written and spoken French;
to provide a grounding in French grammatical and syntactic structures; to revise,
broaden and consolidate grasp of lexis and grammatical structures; to develop
awareness of style and linguistic register; to develop skills in translation
from French into English; to practise receptive and communicative skills.
Content:
(a) Translation: varieties of register, written translation from French into
English, introduction to essay writing, dictée. (b) Grammar/creative
writing: introduction to résuméé, systematic practical grammar
course, development of lexis, prose translation, text comparison. (c) Spoken
Language: comprehension, text recreation, controlled oral production, course-related
conversation sessions.
ESML0003: French cultural studies 1A: Styles & genres
in French culture
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to a wide range of modern French literature, film and
art, 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: metaphor, music and image as meaning. The language of
art: form, meaning and the nature of representation. The language of film: basic
techniques and critical theories, questions of point of view, the relationship
of literature and film. The language of theatre: the role of the interpreter,
questions of performance.
ESML0004: French cultural studies 1B: Changing viewpoints
in the novel
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0003
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to a wide range of modern French literature, film and
art, 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:
Prose narrative and the novel: reading strategies and the role of the reader;
questions of the narrator and point of view; the nineteenth-century novel as
an introduction to French culture and society after 1850; self-reflexive fiction
in the twentieth century.
ESML0005: French politics & society 1A: Introduction
à la politique et à la société françaises
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0005
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0002
Aims & learning objectives:
To continue the production of authentic and accurate written and spoken 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) Translation: varieties of register, written translation from French into
English, extempore translation, cloze tests. (b) Grammar/creative writing: introduction
to guided essay, systematic practical grammar course, development of lexis.
(c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text recreation, controlled oral production,
course-related conversation sessions.
ESML0008: French written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites: Pre ESML0007
Aims & learning objectives:
To continue the production of authentic and accurate written and spoken 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) Translation: varieties of register, written translation from French into
English, extempore translation, cloze tests, dictée. (b) Grammar/creative
writing: introduction to guided essay, systematic practical grammar course,
development of lexis, text comparison. (c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text
recreation, controlled oral production, course-related conversation sessions.
ESML0009: French cultural studies 2A: Violence & disintegration
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0004
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 the visual
image, including painting and photography,and develop students' confidence in
forming and expressing critical responses.
Content:
A comparative analysis of the work of selected writers 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
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 2A: Les années
Mitterrand
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0006
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
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 (Carnéé, 1933),
Les 400 coups (Truffaut, 1959) and Au Revoir les enfants (Malle,
1987).
ESML0013: French written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0008
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX38 CW17 OR27 OT18
Requisites: Pre ESML0013
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 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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.
ESML0019: French national option F5: French comedies
from Molière to Beaumarchais
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
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 a range of texts reflecting the development of autobiographical
writing in French. Students will be expected to prepare seminar papers on writers
or topics of their choice.
ESML0022: French national option F8: Specialist language
- translation A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0008, Co ESML0023
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the techniques of documentary translation from French
to English 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 CW50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the techniques of documentary translation from French
to English 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: OR100
Requisites:
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
Contact:
Topic:
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the respective roles 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit pursues a dual aim. (1) 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.
(2) 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.
Content:
(1) 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 (2) Spoken language 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.
ESML0031: German written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0030
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit builds on ESML0030, pursuing the same dual aim. (1) 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. (2) 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.
Content:
(1) 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. (2) Spoken language 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.
ESML0032: German cultural studies 1A: Kultur der Weimarer
Republik
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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 short story.
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,
Franz Kafka, Erzahlungen; b) Film: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.
ESML0033: German cultural studies 1B: Drittes Reich
und Nachkriegsjahre (1933-61)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0032
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 Österreich 1918-1939
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
We will trace the most important political, social and economic developments
in inter-war Germany and Austria. At the same time, students will get practice
in German comprehension, speaking and writing. Students should learn to follow
straightforward lectures in 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.
Content:
i) Weimarer Republik (1918-1933) a. Deutschland zwischen Krieg and Diktatur
b. Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in der Weimarer Republik c. Der Aufstieg
der NSDAP ii) Das Drittes Reich (1933-1945) a. Ein Überblick über
die wichtigsten Entwicklungen zwischen 1933 und 1945 b. Umgestaltung von Staat
und Gesellschaft im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland iii) Die Erste Republik
Österreich a. Gründung und Festigung der Republic (1918 - 1926) b. Der
Weg in die Krise c. Bürgerkrieg und autoritärer Städndestaat.
Taught in German.
ESML0035: German politics & society 1B: Von der doppelten
Staatsgründung bis zum Mauerbau
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0034
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. Die Politik des Allinerten (1945-1949)
b. Das Grundgesetz c. Konrad Adenauer und 'Kanzlerdemokratie' d. Die Entwicklung
der westdeutschen Gesellschaft in den 50er jahren ii) Ostdeutschland: vom Aufbau
zum Mauerbau (1945-1961) a. Vorgeschichte and Gründung der DDR b. Der Volksaufstand
vom 17 Juni 1953 c. Entwicklungen in der DDR 1953-1961. Taught in German.
ESML0036: German written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0031
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on knowledge (grammatical accuracy and range of vocabulary) and writing
skills acquired in Year 1. 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites: Pre ESML0036
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on knowledge (grammatical accuracy and range of vocabulary) and writing
skills acquired in Year 2 semester 1. 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0033
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
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 Frisch'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 20th Century Switzerland. Seminars will be devoted to critical analysis of
representative texts by Frisch. Taught in German.
ESML0040: German cultural studies 2B, option 2: Berlin
als Kulturmetropole 1918-1933
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
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. Taught
in German.
ESML0041: German cultural studies 2B, option 3: Ideologie
und Kultur im Dritten Reich
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
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: Das blaue Licht, Hitler:
eine Karriere, Die Weisse Rose. Taught in German.
ESML0042: German politics & society 2A: Geteiltes Deutschland
1961-1989
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0035
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:
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 pols & soc 2B opt 1: Lebensumbruche
und Integrationsprozesse in Deutschland seit der Wende
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this unit is to explore how German society, state, politics and economy
have evolved since the collapse of the GDR and German unification, with emphasis
on the new Bundeslander. The learning objectives are to develop an awareness
and understanding amongst students of the key issues relating to the process
of German Unification and to enable them to articulate this in both spoken and
written German.
Content:
Subjects for close study include the formal process of unification; social,
political and economic change in the new Bundeslander, the different
experiences and mentalities in eastern and western Germany and the persistence
of die Mauer im Kopf, GDR nostalgia; the lasting effects of the activities
of the GDR's state security (Stasi and Vergangenheitsbewaltigung);
the transformations experienced by various social categories (e.g. youth, women,
the elderly, foreigners) in the wake of unification. Taught in German.
ESML0044: German politics & society 2B, option 2: Berlin
von der geteilten stadt zur neun haupstadt
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
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 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. Taught in German.
ESML0045: German politics & society 2B, option 3: Popmusik
und jugenkultur
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this unit is to explore how German popular music reflects and responded
to political and social developments in Germany over the last four decades.
Popular music and popular culture are introduced as the object of academic analysis
and a mirror of contemporary German (youth) culture.
Content:
The study of German politics and history from the perspective of the manifold
protest movements provides the basis for the analysis of the lyrics of popular
music from Heintje to Die Prinzen and Pur. We will conclude
with the analysis of the Berlin-centred Techno-Movement as a phenomenon
expressing the Zeitgeist of the 1990s.
ESML0046: German politics & society 2B, option 4: Die
Frau in der deutschen Gesellschaft
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
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. Taught in German.
ESML0048: German written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0037
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX38 CW17 OR27 OT18
Requisites: Pre ESML0048
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.
ESML0051: German national option G2: Deutsche Schriftsteller
im Exil
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
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 their countries of exile and 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, Der Ausflug der Toten
Mädchen; Lion Feuchtwanger, Moskau 1937. 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).
Taught in German.
ESML0052: German national option G3: Umbau 21: Bundesrepublik
Deutschland am anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 CW25 OT25
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of the unit is to explore the challenges unifed Germany has to confront
after the Kohl era and at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Processes
like the collapse of communism, German unification, economic globalisation,
etc., necessitate a fundamental rethinking of Germany's established political
practices and institutions.
Content:
The option will analyse the major challenges to (a) Germany's political system,
(b) Germany's economic system, (c) Germany's social system, and (d) Germany's
role in Europe and international politics. We will discuss possible paths of
societal modernisation and the strategies used by the political leadership.
Taught in German.
ESML0053: German national option G4: Kultur und Politik
in der ehemaligen DDR
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Students must have taken either ESML0038, or ESML0042. 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.
ESML0056: German national option G6: Mensch - Natur
- Technik
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Students must have taken either ESML0038, or ESML0042. Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the debate on technology and social modernisation in
contemporary German culture and to explore the role of literature and film in
posing practical and ethical questions about man's relationship with the natural
environment. The main part of the course will consist of seminar presentations
and discussion of texts and films.
Content:
Texts: Wilhelm Raalse, Pfisters Mühle, Max Frisch, Homo Faber;
Jurij Koch, Der Kirschbaum; Carl Amery, Der Untergang der Stadt Passau;
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Der Untergang der Titanic; Christa Wolf, Störfall.
Films: Veit Harlan, Die goldene Stadt; Werner Herzog, Aguirre.
Taught in German.
ESML0058: German national option G8: Gender und transformatsionzprozesse
in Deutschland
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
To permit a systematic study of significant processes of social change in contemporary
Germany which have become intensified by Germanys unification process, European
integration and the pressures of the global market. The unit will examine primarily
the impact of processes of social transition and transformation on the identity,
social position and opportunities of women both as citizens affected by institutional
and structural reform and as agents of change. Selected areas will be analysed
chiefly through the prism of gender, but other dimensions will also be explored.
An examination of both old and new challenges to traditional gender role attributions
and a study of gender as a social variable and a social determinant provides
the chief analytical framework in which issues such as the withdrawal of the
welfare state, economic and political reform, changing patterns of employment,
technological advance, mobility of labour and patterns of migration will be
discussed.
Content:
A comparative analysis of the goals, achievements and limitations of the women's
movement as a social movement in the old Federal Republic with women's position
in the former GDR will provide the background against which current debates
about reform and redefinition within the women's movement in Germany will be
examined. In the light of this historical perspective and of more recent developments
in the new Federal states opportunities and perspectives for women's political
participation and the development of strategies for social and institutional
reform will be examined. The unit will cover topics such as: The first German
women's movement, its goals, achievements and objectives; women in Nazi Germany
and in the post war period of reconstruction and consolidation; impact, opportunities
and perspectives of the new women's movement in the 1960's; a comparision with
the position of women in the GDR; the 'Wende' and Germany's unification process;
the period of transition and transformation since 1990; counting the cost and
identifying perspectives and strategies for the future. Taught in German.
ESML0059: German national option G9: Die Massenmedien
in Deutschland
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 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; media ethics; funding and inter-media competition;
new media - from Btx to the Internet in one generation; media as a political
tool; the impact of German unification on the media of both former German states.
Taught in German.
ESML0060: Italian written & spoken language 1A (ab initio)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0060
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0062
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: Introduction
to Italian cultural history
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
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 narrative in film and literature.
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
Contact:
Topic:
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: Italian writing
of the 19th and 20th centuries
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites: Pre ESML0064
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0065
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Students must have taken either ESML0061, or ESML0063. 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 OR26 CW20
Requisites: Pre ESML0068
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: Italian writers
of the early 20th Century
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0066
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: Italy since
1945
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0067
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.
ESML0074: Italian written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0069
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX56 CW17 OR27
Requisites: Pre ESML0074
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.
ESML0077: Italian national option IT2: The novel, the
cinema & Italian society
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
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. Taught partly in Italian.
ESML0078: Italian national option IT3: Scrittrici Italiane
del ventesimo secolo
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
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, (1997); Francesca Sanvitale, Madre e Figlia
(1984), Einaudi, (1994); Elsa Morante, Aracoeli, Einaudi, (1982). Taught
partly in Italian.
ESML0079: Italian national option IT4: Women in Italian
society
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
The role and position of women in post-war Italy has undergone substantial 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. Taught partly in Italian.
ESML0081: Russian written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
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 be chosen from A S Pushkin, The Queen of Spades
and selected lyric poetry; I S Turgenev, First Love; 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0081
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0082
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Pre ESML0082
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 - Directed study
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Students must take ESML0088 at the same time as this unit. 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 (ESML0088).
Content:
As for Russian Politics and Society 1B (ESML0088).
ESML0088: Russian politics & society 1B: Russia before
1917
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
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 rise of Moscow; modernization and westernization
in 1680-1855. 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;
Chekhov's depiction of peasant life at the end of the 19th century; 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.
ESML0089: Russian written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0084, Pre ESML0085
Students must have taken either ESML0084, or ESML0085. 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0083, Pre ESML0086
Students must have taken either ESML0083, or ESML0086. 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): Chekhov, Blok, Zoshchenko
ESML0091: Russian politics & society 2A: Soviet Russia
1917-1985
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
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 Khrushchev 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites: Pre ESML0089
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 1920s & 1930s
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0090
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0091
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; the role and position of women in the late Soviet and post-Soviet
eras.
ESML0095: Russian written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0092
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX56 CW17 OR27
Requisites: Pre ESML0095
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).
ESML0099: Russian national option R2: The twentieth
century Russian novel
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 ES33
Requisites: Pre ESML0093
Aims & learning objectives:
The novel is arguably Russia's greatest contribution to European culture in
the 19th and 20th centuries. This unit concentrates on some of the greatest
prose works of the 20th century examining them in their socio-political context
and exploring the human effects of the cataclysms and conflicts of the last
70 years of Russian history.
Content:
Among the works to be studied are the following (subject to availability in
print): M Bulgakov, Master i Margarita
*; E Zamiatin, My; A Solzhenitsyn, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha;
B Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago
*; Iu. Olesha, Zavist'; 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0094, Pre HASS0005
Students must have taken either ESML0094, or HASS0005. Aims & learning objectives:
To investigate political and social developments in the years 1985-1991 in greater
depth than in ESML0094.
Content:
Origins of perestroika; glasnost and democratization; nationalities issues and
conflicts; the collapse of communism.
ESML0102: Russian national option R5: Politics in post-communist
Russia
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0094, Pre HASS0005
Students must have taken either ESML0094, or HASS0005. 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; gender politics; prospects.
ESML0103: Europe 1A: Introduction to European studies
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To begin an exploration of the historical and cultural identity of Europe; to
introduce basic political concepts (nationalism, imperialism, communism and
fascism) in a European historical context; to introduce cultural studies as
a discipline in the context of European culture in the first half of the twentieth
century.
Content:
Defining Europe - history, languages and culture; nations and empires in 19th
Century Europe; the First World War; communism and fascism in interwar Europe;
the Second World War; studying European culture; images of war in 20th Century
Europe.
ESML0104: Europe 1B: Europe since 1945
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To compare the experience of Eastern and Western Europe since 1945; to introduce
students, in this context, to analysis of the political structure and culture
of liberal democracies and to analysis of the structures and problems of modern
economies; to examine the interaction of culture and politics in post-war Europe.
Content:
Europe in the Cold War era; politics and culture in post-war Europe; economic
and social change in Western Europe; liberal democratic politics in Europe -
elections and party systems; political culture; the rise and fall of European
communist states and command economies; economic and political problems in the
age of globalisation; postmodernism in European culture.
ESML0105: Europe 2A: Politics of the European Union
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
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; monetary union; citizenship and "the people's Europe";
the E.U., Eastern Europe and enlargement; the future of the E.U.
ESML0107: European option E1: Intellectuals & identity
in contemporary Europe
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an overview of nationalism in various twentieth-century European
contexts and of the role of intellectuals (both literary authors and social/political
commentators) in influencing debates on issues such as national identity. The
changes in post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe will provide a focus for the
latter part of the unit.
Content:
The work of intellectuals such as Barzini, Konwicki, Grass, Arendt and Foucault.
ESML0108: European option E2: Politically committed
European culture: the end of an era?
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an historical understanding of the development of politically committed
culture (literature and film) in the post-1945 era in both Eastern and Western
Europe. To take account of the factors which led to the growing disillusionment
on the part of creative intellectuals regarding the value of their efforts to
bring about socialism with a human face: the dominance of Stalinism during the
Cold War, the crushing of reform movements in Eastern Europe (especially the
Prague Spring in 1968), general scepticism in Western Europe since the 1960's
regarding the value of committed culture. To study some examples of the post-engagement
culture in Eastern Europe and Russia since the collapse of communism. The close
study of works by leading authors of the post-1945 period will provide the focus
for the seminars which form the core of the unit.
Content:
Introductory lectures on the issue of commitment and French, German, Italian,
Czech and Russian attitudes to it. A selection from the following range of works:
A dossier of Camus's writing, De Sanctis: Bitter Rice; Wolf: The Quest
for Christa T., Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,
Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Perec: Things; Sciascia:
Candido; Klíma: Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, Makanin:
Baize Table with Decanter.
ESML0109: French cultural studies 2B, option 7: Camus
& the Algerian question
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
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 analyse 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
Contact:
Topic:
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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, Renéé Bousque, François
Mitterrand, Maurice Papon) and investigating reactions to those events and individuals.
Taught in French.
ESML0280: Italian cultural studies 2B, option 1: Decadentismo:
Luigi Pirandello & Italo Svevo
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
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 Italian cinema in the 1960s.
ESML0282: Italian cultural studies 2B, option 3: Post-war
Italian narrative
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
Aims & learning objectives:
To build upon the knowledge acquired during the core module in Semester 1 and
to explore aspects of Post-War Italian narrative in greater depth.
Content:
This option will consider a range of writers from the end of the Neorealist
period (Pavese) to the 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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
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
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
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.
ESML0294: European option E5: In search of Europe (1)
- Europe divided
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
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
Contact:
Topic:
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.
ESML0298: French politics & society 2B: option 10: La
France dans le monde
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
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
Contact:
Topic:
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 student's 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.
ESML0371: Italian politics and society 2B, option 3:
The representation of Italy
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
The courses objective is to use the work of eminent Italian novelists, sociologists,
essayists and film directors to "bring to life" students textbook knowledge
of certain key moments in Italian post-war history.
Content:
Subjects covered include: the partisan struggle against the Germans; the Mafia;
the DC and the PCI; terrorism; political corruption and the tangentopoli scandal.
Works by major figures such as Sciascia, Rossellini, Amelio and Arlacchi will
be studied. Students will be expected to read very widely in Italian.
ESML0373: French politics & society 2B, option 11: Political
scandals in France
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics and Society by applying the expertise
gained so far to an analysis of Political Scandals in France.
Content:
This option will focus on the numerous scandals that are one of the most prominent
features of French politics, how they emerge, how they develop and how they
are resolved. Scandals offer a unique means of looking at the inner workings
of an entire political system. The course will concentrate on specific case
studies, such as the "affair" of the Rainbow Warrior, the "scandal" of the avions
renifleurs, le carrefour du développement, and the Bernard Tapie
affair.
ESML0384: Russian national option R3: Modern Russian
Cinema
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0093
Aims & learning objectives:
To acquaint students with recent developments in Russian cinema, from the late
Soviet period (early 1980s) through to the mid-1990s. To provide an overview
of the cultural and political background; to analyse film as text; to examine
some key films of the period.
Content:
Brief history of Soviet film 1917-85; some critical tendencies in the late stagnation
years; Gorbachev's policy of 'glasnost' in the arts; the 'unshelving' of previously
banned films in the late 1980s; the end of Soviet film and the emergence of
the new Russian cinema post-1991.
ESML0385: European political thought
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
Students should acquire a solid understanding of the history and development
of political theory in Europe.
Content:
The course provides a survey of the major European politcal thinkers from Niccolo
Machiavelli to Antonio Gramsci.
ESML0388: French national option F7: Les partis politiques
en France
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To study the role played by political parties within the democratic process
in France, their history, development, organisation, strategies and programmes
since the turn of the century, and to examine what role they play today in French
politics in the light of the Fifth Republic's avowed goal of putting an end
to partisan divisions. To offer students the opportunity to develop their research
skills and to gain a better understanding of the way the French political system
works as a whole.
Content:
The major topics surveyed will be the following: the partisan system before
1958, the bipolarisation after 1958, the organisation of parties, the funding
of political parties, and the emergence of new political forces.
ESML0389: Italian national option IT6: The crisis of
the Italian State
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this course is to discuss and analyse the crisis of the Italian I
Republic and the period of political transition that has followed the collapse
of the Berlusconi government.
Content:
Subjects covered include: academic explanations for the crisis of the I Republic;
political parties in contemporary Italy; constitutional reform; Italy and the
European Union. Students will be expected to read widely in Italian.
ESML0389: Italian national option IT6: The crisis of
the Italian State
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this course is to discuss and analyse the crisis of the Italian I
Republic and the period of political transition that has followed the collapse
of the Berlusconi government.
Content:
Subjects covered include: academic explanations for the crisis of the I Republic;
political parties in contemporary Italy; constitutional reform; Italy and the
European Union. Students will be expected to read widely in Italian.
ESML0407: Border crossings: memory and identity in contemporary
Europe
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: To challenge assumptions about European and national
identities: to enable students to appreciate the complexity, diversity and interrelated
nature of European cultures.
Content:
An exploration of shifting identities in contemporary Europe, through a variety
of written and visual media, with particular reference to geographical and linguistic
boundaries, and the themes of exile, migration, memory and forgetting.
ESML0422: French national option F14: Marguerite Duras
- Femme du siècle
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the work of Marguerite Duras and to examine her contribution
to some of the major literary and intellectual debates of mid- to late-twentieth
century France. To explore the stylistic and thematic evolution of Duras's oevre,
through discussion of such issues as family relations, oppression, personal
identity, gender and sexuality.
Content:
The unit will focus primarily on the following novels: Un barrage contre
le Pacifique (1955); Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964); the very short
text, 'L'Homme asses dans le couloir' (1981); L'Amant (1984); La Douleur
(1985) and L'Amant de la Chine du nord (1991). Some reference will
also be made to Duras's use of visual media.
ESML0423: German national option G10: Territorium und
Nation. Die 'deutsche Frage' seit 1945
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the origins,
development, and future of the 'German Question'. Building on students' knowledge
of post-war German history, this will be done by systematically analysing the
links between the two concepts of territory and nation and how they are affected,
or were affected by, German domestic and foreign policy and the relationship
between the two German states and their neighbours in the context of the Cold
War, the collapse of the East Bloc, and the democratisation of the former socialist
countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Content:
Topics of lectures and seminars will include the relationship between East and
West German, Ostpolitik, German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe,
the integration of refugess, expellees, and Aussiedler in the Federal
Republic, and the political influence of expellee organisations on German foreign
policy. The unit is taught in German.
ESML0424: Introduction to the teaching of English as
a foreign language (TEFL)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To enhance language awareness and introduce the basics of lingistuics as a discipline;
to provide a self-contained introduction to TEFL, of practical use to students
preparing to spend a year abroad, with the possibility of conversion to a recognised
qualification (CELTA) via a subsequent add-on course (at student's own expense);
to develop transferable skills, useful for a career in foreign language teaching.
Content:
An introduction to linguistics with a practical focus on the skills and systems
of English language teaching; teaching methodology (the context for learning
and teaching English at adult level, planning effective teaching, classroom
skills); resources and materials (selection and evaluation).
ESML0429: French national option F15: Décisions
et leadership
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To deepen students' understanding of decision-making and leadership processes
in organisational and political life; to enhance their practical competencies
in these matters; to explore methods by which individual and collective decisions
are made in a range of settings.
Content:
The unit analyses decision-making and leadership at three levels: organisations,
the French national polity, and the international arena (especially the EU).
Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches, it identifies the social and personal
characteristics of key decision-makers, explores contextual and procedural aspects,
and outlines models of strategy formulation and policy making in majoritarian
and non-majoritarian settings. Case studies are drawn mainly from France, supported
by international comparisons and contrasts. The unit is taught in French.
ESML0430: French cultural studies 2B, option 11: Ecrire
les langues francaises: recent francophone literature
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the work of several contemporary francophone writers,
and to the historical, cultural and theoretical context of post-colonialism.
To examine how such works challenge the certainties of traditional 'French'
literature. To explore the stylistic and thematic complexities of francophone
novels, poetry and films through discussion of such issues as hybridity, exile,
authenticity, voice, place and gender.
Content:
The unit will focus primarily on the following literary works Azouz Begag, Le
Gone de Chaâba (1986): Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour
au pays natal (1939); Medhi Charef, Le thé au harem d'Archi Ahmed
(1983); Andrée Chedid, La Maison sans racines (1985); Tahar Ben
Jelloun, La Nuit sacrée (1987) - and the films, La Haine, Le
Gone de Chaâba and Le thé au harem d'Archi Ahmed. We shall
also refer to a number of historical and theoretical works.
ESML0431: German cultural studies 2B, option 4: Verliebt,
verlobt, verheiratet?
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
Aims & learning objectives:
Full title: Verliebt, verlobt, verheiratet? Liebe, Beziehungen und Ehe in der
deutschprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. To examine cultural representations of
relationships and of the institution of marriange as key areas of social change
during the 1960s and 1970s. To assess the impact of wider social change (in
particular of the women's movement) on the nexus of personal identity, the private
sphere and society. To identify new methods being employed by prose writers
as a means of authentically representing the social experiences of particular
women.
Content:
A framework of lectures will provide the cultural and political context within
which to study the cultural representations of the topics specified above. Lectures
will also introduce students to literary developments of the period and to the
authors whose texts will be studied. The seminars will provide students with
the opportunity to analyse in detail the following representative works of fiction:
Brigitte Schwaiger, Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer; Elfiede Jelinek, Die
Liebhaberinnen; Christa Wolf, Der geteilte Himmel; Christoph Hein,
Drachenblut; and a film version of Christa Wolf's short story Selbstversuch.
Taught in German.
ESML0441: Women & politics in Europe
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this unit is to introduce students to the relationship between gender
and politics in contemporary Europe by examining theory and a number of thematic
case studies. By the end of this unit students will have a basic theoretical
knowledge of the relationship between women and politics and will have explored
certain aspects of the realities of women's involvement in politics across Europe.
Content:
This course will first introduce some of the major debates in contemporary feminist
political theory. It will then move into a comparative analysis of the relationship
between women and the political processes in Europe by examining feminist movements,
women's voting patterns, women's participation in government and political parties,
social policy concerning women and women's involvement in the European parliament
and commission.
ESML0468: Transitions to democracy
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To understand the "third wave" of transitions to democracy which began in the
last quarter of the 20th century by examining the general scholarly literature
on this subject and the experience of a number of individual countries in four
different regions of the world (Southern Europe, Latin America, East-Central
Europe, the former USSR); to develop skills in comparative political analysis
and seminar techniques. Students who complete the unit successfully will be
able to demonstrate:
* a clear grasp of the key issues in democratization in each region;
* familiarity with theoretical arguments surrounding "third wave" transitions;
* the ability to critically evaluate these arguments by reference to national
and cross-regional case studies.
Content:
The unit will begin with a lecture introducing the "third wave" and a discussion
of the nature of democracy to establish criteria. This will be followed by lectures
on theories of transition, addressing the debate over structure and agency,
the significance of institutional choices, and the role of civil society. Introductory
lectures on the four regions will be followed by seminar case-studies of individual
countries presented by students, each focusing on an aspect of transition highlighted
by the experience of the country concerned. The countries and themes chosen
will vary from time to time but in the first instance will be: Spain - the importance
of agency and pacts; Greece - the role of the military; Colombia - the drugs
trade; Chile - the issue of impunity; Nicaragua - the importance of external
relations; Cuba - the limits of democracy; Poland - abortion and the role of
the Church; Hungary - political parties and society; Croatia - economic development;
Bosnia - war and ethnicity; Ukraine - institutions; Georgia - political culture.
The unit will end with a general discussion, after which students will write
an essay comparing an aspect of transition in at least two different regions.
Key texts: S. Huntington The Third Wave. Democratization in the Late 20th
Century (1991); D. Potter Democratization (1997).
MANG0040: European integration studies 1
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Students should have taken MANG0006 or MANG0070, or equivalent Economics
unit. IMML students must take MANG0059 in the next semester if they take this
unit. 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
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Pre MANG0040
IMML students must take this unit if they have taken MANG0040 in the previous
semester. 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.
SOCP0012: European social policy: a comparative approach
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0001, Pre SOCP0002
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit introduces students to the social policies of several European countries.
By the end of the module students should have a basic knowledge of the patterns
and development of welfare policies in these countries and be able to situate
them in relation to models of different welfare state regimes.
Content:
The course adopts two approaches to the material. In the first part, it examines
in depth the development of social policies in specific countries which represent
different 'welfare regimes': Germany, Sweden, Italy and Russia/ Central Europe.
Second, it then compares specific policy areas across these countries, such
as pensions and health services. The module concludes by considering the impact
of the EU and the prospects for converging social policies in Europe.
SOCP0070: Social issues in contemporary Europe
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: PR100
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: To develop student understanding of the major
social themes affecting Europe today. This unit will adopt a comparative perspective
that looks at the changing boundaries social agendas in place in major European
countries. The course will attempt to display elements of convergence and divergence
within those different and developing social agendas.
Content:
The idea of Europe as a social entity; EU developments promoting common social
policies; comparative demographics regarding family, gender, employment, labour
market, education, welfare and social policies. Comparative analysis of social
institutions and modes of approach to common problems.