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German at University of Nottingham - UCAS

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2024 - 2025
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Course summary

We offer postgraduate research supervision in most areas and epochs of the literatures, cultures and societies of the German-speaking world from the medieval period to the present day, as well as in German history and linguistics. Specialisms include:

  • linguistics and medieval studies
  • history of language teaching
  • constructions of national identity from the 18th century to the present day
  • myth in German literature from the 18th century to the present day
  • Romanticism
  • 19th century narrative
  • novels and novellas
  • culture and politics in the Weimar Republic
  • Modernism and Postmodernism
  • critical and cultural theory
  • gender studies
  • memory and exile studies
  • Postcolonialism and cross-cultural studies
  • German cinema
  • media studies
  • autobiography in East Germany
  • intellectuals since the Wende
  • culture of the New Right in contemporary Germany
  • contemporary German historiography
  • memory, time and temporality in German literature and culture
Attending research seminars and special lectures will be an important part of your doctoral journey. You will also have the opportunity to deliver papers of your own. The culmination of your work will be a thesis that makes a significant contribution to research in German Studies. The University of Nottingham is one of eight universities making up the AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C). The partnership provides funding and training to support the professional and personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers.

Modules

Before you start your research degree you will have completed a research-preparation masters degree in a related discipline and have agreed your research topic with a main supervisor and co-supervisor. You will work with this team closely for the duration of your study and are welcome to consult any other member of the department whose research seems of relevance to your own work. You are required to attend all departmental research seminars and special lectures and deliver at least one paper of your own each year, usually at the annual Postgraduate Forum or at a work-in-progress seminar. At the end of three years’ full-time registration, plus one year optional writing-up, you will have written a thesis of between 80,000-100,000 words on a topic which makes a significant contribution to research in German studies.

Entry requirements

2:1 (or international equivalent) in an arts, humanities or social science subject – we would usually expect you to hold, or be working towards, a masters degree in a relevant subject

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

More information on fees can be found at: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/fees/postgraduate-fees.aspx
German at University of Nottingham - UCAS