German

Course summary

In the first year you will build on familiar topics from GCSE. The main topics are social issues and trends, including the family, social media, and youth culture and artistic culture including festivals, art and architecture and Berlin. In the second year you will develop the topics from year 1 but also study other aspects of society, including multiculturalism, the European Union, youth politics and the reunification of Germany. In year 1 we study a film “Goodbye Lenin” by the director Wolfgang Becker and in year 2 a play “Der Besuch der alten Dame” by the Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt.