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BSc German and Mathematics

Programme code:BS-GERM&MATHUCAS code:GR12
Duration:4 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Ingo Cornils Contact address:i.cornils@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 485

Entry requirements:

For entry requirements for this course please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/coursefinder

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Programme specification:

The programme will:
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.

General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.


Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

In Level 1 students must study 120-125 credits. Students are required to take 40-45 credits in German, 60 credits in Mathematics and 20 credits of Discovery modules. The discovery credits may take the form of either further modules in one or both main subjects or of one or more modules chosen from other subject areas.

Compulsory modules:

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules:

GERM1030German Core Language 1
Pre-requisite for: GERM2030
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MATH1050Calculus and Mathematical Analysis10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH1055Numbers and Vectors10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH1060Introductory Linear Algebra10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH1400Modelling with Differential Equations10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Students are required to study 20 credits from the following list of optional modules

GERM1060Introduction to Modern Germany20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM1070Approaching German Culture20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM1110Skills in German Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Students must choose at least 20 credits from the following:

MATH1225Introduction to Geometry10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH1710Probability and Statistics I10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH1712Probability and Statistics II10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Students who would like to take a further Statistics module in year 2 or 3 need to take MATH1710 and MATH1720.

As part of your induction to academic work, and in order to provide you with additional support in key areas of your programme, students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to undertake the following 5-credit Study Skills module. This module resides above the required 120 credits students take in Level 1 and as such it is not compulsory, but it draws together key guidance that augments provision elsewhere.

MODL1500LCS Academic Essentials5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Students are required to take 20 credits of Discovery modules


Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 60-65 credits in Mathematics and 40 credits in German. The remaining credits should be taken in either of the named subjects or taken as discovery modules.

In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules:

GERM2030German Core Language 2
Pre-requisite for: GERM3030
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MATH2365Vector Calculus15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study between 20 and 40 credits from the following optional modules:

FOAR2000Research Placement20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM2040Applied German Language20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM2050From Caligari to Hitler: Introduction to German Cinema20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM2310Politics, Society and Culture in the 'Berlin Republic'20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM2400Gender, Culture and Representation in German History 1871-200020 creditsNot running in 201718
GERM2600The Shock of the New: Culture and Power in Germany from the Second to the Third Reich20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM2700Freedom and Control: Identities in Crisis in German Literature and Film20 creditsNot running in 201718
MODL2001Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

- Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their German options must take a minimum of 60 credits in German in level 2 including GERM2030.
- FOAR2000 can only be counted as a German module if the project undertaken relates to German and you have sought prior approval of the Programme Manager.
- Not all modules are available every year.

Student must take one of the following modules: (these are mutually exclusive).

MATH2022Groups and Vector Spaces15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2080Further Linear Algebra10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Students must take between 30 and 40 credits of additional MATH modules for a total of 60 or 65 credits of MATH modules, with at least 10 credits taken from LIST A:

MATH2017Real Analysis15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2026Rings, Fields and Polynomials10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2040Mathematical Logic 110 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2051Geometry of Curves and Surfaces10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2230Discrete Mathematics10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2231Discrete Mathematics with Computation15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2375Linear Differential Equations and Transforms15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2600Numerical Analysis10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2601Numerical Analysis with Computation15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2620Fluid Dynamics 110 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2640Introduction to Optimisation10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2715Statistical Methods10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2735Statistical Modelling10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2750Introduction to Markov Processes10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

LIST B:

MATH2340The Mathematics of Music10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2391Nonlinear Differential Equations10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2410Special Relativity10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2650Calculus of Variations10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2740Environmental Statistics10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2775Survival Analysis10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2800Mathematics into Schools10 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MATH2900Maths at Work10 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MATH2920Computational Mathematics10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Students need to pass at least 40 credits of Maths modules to progress to the next year of the programme.

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.


Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Candidates will spend the third year in Germany or a German-speaking country.

Compulsory modules:

Students are required to study the following compulsory module:

GERM9001German Year Abroad120 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)


Year4 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 60-65 credits in Mathematics and 40 credits in German, including at least 20 credits as a Final Year Project module which can be taken in and count towards either of the named subjects. The remaining 20 credits can be taken in either of the two named subjects or as a Discovery Module.

In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Students are required to study the following compulsory module:

GERM3030German Core Language 320 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.

MATH3001Project in Mathematics20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3300Final Year Project: Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3310Final Year Project: Extended Essay20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3320Final Year Project: Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3340Final Year Project: Extended Translation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3350Final Year Project: Digital Documentary40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules:

GERM3040Borders and Border-Crossings in Contemporary German Culture20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM3060German for Professional Purposes20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM3080Contemporary German Cinema20 creditsNot running in 201718
GERM3092Advanced Translation from German into English20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM3100W. G. Sebald and the Politics of Literature20 creditsNot running in 201718
GERM3140War Imagined: Cultural Representations of War and Conflict in Germany20 creditsNot running in 201718
GERM3170German Utopian Thought in Fiction and Film20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
GERM3180Screening Terrorism20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
GERM3190Christa Wolf's Stadt der Engel20 creditsNot running in 201718
GERM3200Untranslatable? German Literature as an Object of Cultural Exchange20 creditsNot running in 201718
GERM3250Perpetrators and/or Victims? Remembering the Second World War in Germany20 creditsNot running in 201718
GERM3750The German Student Movement20 creditsNot running in 201718
MODL3200Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3800Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

- Students wishing to choose MODL3800 as one of their German options must take a minimum of 60 credits in German in the final year including GERM3030.
- Not all modules will be available every year.

Choose 60 credits from the following modules - please check the Module Catalogue for pre-requisites and mutually exclusive modules. At most 10 credits may be at Level 2.

COMP3910Combinatorial Optimisation10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
COMP3940Graph Algorithms and Complexity Theory10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EDUC3060Mathematics Education10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2016Analysis15 creditsNot running in 201718
MATH2026Rings, Fields and Polynomials10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2040Mathematical Logic 110 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2051Geometry of Curves and Surfaces10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2210Introduction to Discrete Mathematics10 creditsNot running in 201718
MATH2340The Mathematics of Music10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2375Linear Differential Equations and Transforms15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2391Nonlinear Differential Equations10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2410Special Relativity10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2600Numerical Analysis10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2601Numerical Analysis with Computation15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2620Fluid Dynamics 110 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2640Introduction to Optimisation10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2650Calculus of Variations10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2715Statistical Methods10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2735Statistical Modelling10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH2740Environmental Statistics10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2750Introduction to Markov Processes10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2775Survival Analysis10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH2920Computational Mathematics10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3015History of Mathematics15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3021Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3033Graph Theory15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3044Number Theory15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3071Groups and Symmetry15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3104Proof and Computation15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3113Differential Geometry15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3120Models and Sets15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3143Combinatorics15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3153Coding Theory15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3193Algebras and Representations15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3210Metric Spaces15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3215Hilbert Spaces and Fourier Analysis15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3225Topology15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3232Transformation Geometry15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3355Hamiltonian Systems15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3365Mathematical Methods15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3374Linear and Non-Linear Waves15 creditsNot running in 201718
MATH3375Hydrodynamic Stability15 creditsNot running in 201718
MATH3385Quantum Mechanics15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3396Dynamical Systems15 creditsNot running in 201718
MATH3397Nonlinear Dynamics15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3414Analytic Solutions of Partial Differential Equations15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3424Introduction to Entropy in the Physical World15 creditsNot running in 201718
MATH3458Geophysical Fluid Dynamics15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3459Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3474Numerical Methods10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3475Modern Numerical Methods15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3491Discrete Systems and Integrability15 creditsNot running in 201718
MATH3531Cosmology10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3565Mathematical Biology15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3567Evolutionary Modelling15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3620Fluid Dynamics 215 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3714Linear Regression and Robustness15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3723Statistical Theory15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3733Stochastic Financial Modelling15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3772Multivariate Analysis10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3802Time Series10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3820Bayesian Statistics10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MATH3823Generalised Linear Models10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MATH3880Introduction to Statistics and DNA10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

NB: EDUC3060, COMP3940 and COMP3910 count towards the credit requirements for mathematics modules


Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.

Last updated: 11/08/2017

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