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Head:
Professor Philip Thomson
Graduate coordinator: Associate Professor Walter Veit
The Department of German offers three postgraduate courses leading to research
degrees: PhD, MA by research and MA by coursework and research. All courses may
be taken full-time or part-time. Students can specialise in German literature
or German linguistics.
HELMUT
HEINZE Media studies; history and theory of mass media; literature of the
Weimar Republic; literature of exile (1933-1945).
SILKE HESSE Franz Kafka; baroque literature; Else Lasker-Schüler; women's
literature; theory on women including feminist theory.
HEINZ KREUTZ Applied linguistics; sociolinguistics, social dialectology; second
language acquisition; contrastive rhetoric and cross cultural communication;
discourse and text analysis; business German and German for special purposes;
language teaching.
KATE RIGBY Romanticism; philosophy of nature; literature and the environment;
feminist theory; drama and theatre studies.
DAVID ROBERTS Theory of the German novel; contemporary German literature;
aesthetics; sociology of literature.
PHILIP THOMSON The grotesque; satire; literary theory; B. Brecht; contemporary
German and Australian fiction.
WALTER VEIT Medieval and baroque studies; comparative literature; literary
theory; poetics; aesthetics, rhetoric and intercultural studies.
CHRISTIANE WELLER Travel literature; colonial literature; fin de siecle;
psychoanalytic theory; crime fiction; literature of the fantastique; European
cinema.
Course
code: 0020
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
For students with a BA honours degree (H2A or above), an MA or MQual with a
research component or equivalent. Candidates are required to write a thesis on
a topic approved by the department. They will be asked to deliver papers at
research seminars designed to discuss problems of research in progress, and
prepare for regular discussion with their supervisor. The thesis wordlength is
between 60,000-100,000 words. Candidature is normally three years full-time or
five years part-time.
Course
code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
For students with a BA honours degree (H2A or above) or equivalent. Students
are required to write a thesis (40,000-60,000 words) on a topic approved by the
department, to attend seminars relevant to their area of research and prepare
for regular discussions with their supervisor.
Course
code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
The MA by coursework and research is designed to give all MA candidates an introduction to and experience in modern research methods, to give candidates proceeding to the PhD a broader background in their chosen subject and to offer those for whom the MA is the final goal an opportunity to extend their professional knowledge. Students pursue a supervised course of reading in their chosen options, and will be required to write a number of essays. They will be asked to prepare for and actively participate in regular seminars conducted by specialists, and will write a thesis on a topic connected with one of the options selected.
By completion of the MA by coursework and research degree, students should have acquired experience in modern research methods and should have deepened their knowledge of their chosen field.
Students with a BA honours degree or MQual with a research component with a grade of H2A or above, or equivalent, may be admitted. Two of the following subjects will be undertaken plus a 66 per cent thesis of 25,000-35,000 words. Some of the coursework subjects are available in both first and second semesters.
Students interested in interdisciplinary studies may, with the permission of the faculty and the departments or centres concerned, count graduate work undertaken in other departments and centres towards this degree.
Program
code: 1988
Program fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
The
pass degree of BA with results at least at credit level in the third part of a
major sequence in German studies.
As per faculty policy, students who have completed fourth-year level subjects
in German studies with results at least at credit level will be allowed credit
up to a maximum of twenty-four points.
Upon completion of the components of the program - compulsory subjects in language studies, literary or linguistics theories, and a compulsory research component, plus two electives from a range of subjects - students should be able to demonstrate an increased competence in spoken and written German; and an increased awareness of the intercultural dimension of history, politics and intellectual life in German-speaking countries, and their relationship to the world and especially to Australia; advanced knowledge of and skills in applying modern linguistic or literary theories and critical methodologies; advanced knowledge in select areas of German literature and linguistics; an ability to work independently with resources available in the libraries and archives and through electronic media; an ability for sustained scholarship by developing a coherent argument supported by evidence; an ability to present ideas and arguments clearly and with high standards of presentation; and uncompromising scholarly ethics.
The program has two streams: (1) German literary studies, and (2) German linguistics.
The following subjects, to a total of twenty-four points, are compulsory:
In addition, two subjects (four points each) from the following are compulsory:
Finally, two subjects (eight points each) are to be chosen from the following:
The following subjects, to a total of twenty-four points, are compulsory:
In addition, two subjects (four points each) from the following are compulsory:
Finally, two subjects (eight points each) are to be chosen from the following:
With the permission of the
head of the department, students may choose a relevant subject from cognate
departments or centres.
With the permission of the department, MQual students may complete a part of
their program at a university in a German-speaking country. Students intending
to do this are required to make early arrangements with the department.
The Monash University library has a large collection of books in the field of German studies and subscribes to the main scholarly journals. There are also good stocks of German books and journals in the Baillieu Library of the University of Melbourne and in the State Library of Victoria. In the field of German, the Monash library has concentrated on the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and has in particular an excellent collection of modern German linguistics and contemporary German literature. There is also a well established interlibrary loan system.
The department works in close collaboration with the Centre for European Studies, the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and the Centre for Women's Studies, all of whose seminars are open to German Studies students and staff.
On the national level there are a number of conferences relevant to German linguistics, literature, area studies and the history of ideas. Students are encouraged to attend such conferences and may apply for financial assistance. Proceedings of some conferences are published.
All graduate students are strongly encouraged to conduct a part of their studies in a German speaking country. The department will assist in obtaining scholarships and has made arrangements with German universities enabling students to continue their courses under supervision and with a maximum of assistance.
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