Monash University Handbook 2011 Postgraduate - Area of Study

Areas of research specialisation in German studies include:

• applied linguistics
• comparative literature
• cultural anthropology
• cultural identity, migration and bilingualism
• discourse and text analysis
• German for special purposes
• German literature from the 18th century to the present (especially Weimar Classic, Romanticism, literature of the 19th century, contemporary literature)
• history and theory of German drama and theatre
• history and theory of mass media
• history of German philosophy
• literary aesthetics
• literary theory
• media studies,
• poetics
• psychoanalytic theory
• rhetoric and cultural studies
• second language acquisition
• sociolinguistics
• sociology of literature
• travel literature
• visual culture.

Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)

Students complete 48 points from units listed below, including a research project. All units are 12 points unless otherwise indicated:

• APG4101 Language and society: Sociolinguistics from a German language perspective
• APG4746 Critics of civilisation
• APG4751 Special reading course (German studies)
• APG4752 Age of Goethe

Research projects

• APG4745 German language and society: Research project
• APG4747 Research project in German studies
• APG4748 Research project in German studies 2 (24 points)

Studies abroad

All graduate students are strongly encouraged to conduct a part of their studies in a German-speaking country. Assistance is provided in obtaining scholarships and arrangements exist with German universities enabling students to continue their courses under supervision and with a maximum of assistance.

Course coordinator

Dr Christiane Weller

Further courses

For a list of units studied or course outlines, refer to the relevant courses.

• 3058 Graduate Diploma in Languages
• 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
• 2695 Master of Arts*
• 0020 Doctor of Philosophy*

* By research.