German: Year 1: German language 1; introduction to German culture and society. Year 2: German language 2; options: contemporary German film and literature; contemporary German politics; work placement; University language programme; international exchange. Year 3: Optional placement year. Final year: German language 3; options: dissertation; contemporary Germany; rise and fall of the Third Reich; German language project; German thematic project. English Year 1: Foundations of literary studies; arguing about English; the craft of writing; American literature: writing self and nation; the book group: reading texts in small groups. Year 2: Culture and anarchy; the art of writing; voices and visions; renaissance literature 1485-1660: Shakespeare and his contemporaries; romantic revolutions; the anthology; black writing in Britain: nation and contestation; reading theory: history, philosophy, criticism; American topics; British women writers between the wars (1918-1939); work placement; University language programme; half-year international exchange. Year 3: Dissertation; reading gender and sexuality; postcolonial texts: narratives of liberation; travel writing; early modern identities; radical recoveries 1700-1900; American specialisms; states of suspense: the literature of nuclear anxiety; queering the modern; theory now: literature, culture, politics.