This module is aimed at students with little or no knowledge of German. The module introduces students to various aspects of the German-speaking world as a way of enabling them to begin building communicative abilities in German in all four language modalities: reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Through diverse collaborative and individual tasks and exposure to a range of topics, text types, and different socio-cultural situations, students acquire basic strategies for reading, listening, and writing, and for participating in everyday conversations. In the process they will learn to use major sentence patterns and grammatical features of German as well as high-frequency vocabulary of everyday life. Integration of current technology (e.g., the Internet, e-mail, video) familiarises students with the German-speaking world while at the same time enhancing language learning.

We will work with the following textbook:

Motive. Kompaktkurs DaF, A1-B1, Kursbuch und Arbeitsbuch. (Ismaning: Hueber Verlag). Please get a copy before classes start.
Recommended other sources:

Paul Rusch/Helen Schmidt, Einfach Grammatik: Übungsgrammatik Deutsch A1 bis B1 (Berlin:
 Langenscheidt, 2007).
 Martin Durrell, Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage, 5th edition (London and New York: Routledge, 2011). This will prove an invaluable reference text throughout your German studies here at UCL.
 Sarah Fagan, Using German Vocabulary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
 Susan Wilkin (ed.), Oxford German Wordpack, (Oxford: OUP, 2000)
Please note: This module description is accurate at the time of publication. Minor amendments may be made prior to the start of the academic year.

This is a compulsory core module for all first-year students on a degree with French. The aim of this module is to introduce students to different literary...

This is a compulsory core module for all first-year students on a degree with French. The aim of this module is to introduce students to different literary genres of writing in French (prose narrative, theatre, poetry) through the study of six representative works or selections of texts drawn from different periods of French literature, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and to equip students with the analytical skills they will need in subsequent years to study texts in greater depth.

A list of prescribed texts and editions for the academic year 2021-2022 will be circulated to prospective first-year undergraduates before the summer. Texts studied in recent years have included Marie de France’s Lais (12th century); Marguerite de Navarre’s L’Heptaméron (1559); Molière’s L’Avare (1668); Denis Diderot’s Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville (1796); selections of nineteenth-century sonnets; Eugène Ionesco’s La Cantatrice chauve (1950).

Students will attend a series of lectures (13 hours over two terms) and small-group seminars (14 hours over two terms) delivered by various members of the French Department.