Jonathan Grix & Silwia Jaworska (Birmingham) p.1-24
2002 Issue 3
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to outline and establish the decline in interest in so-called ‘traditional’ German studies in universities in the UK. The authors discuss the shift in the German studies paradigm in the UK during the last 20 years and set about pegging out the variety of conceptual approaches to studying the topic that exist at present. In addition, they present two new models of German studies that can be seen as direct responses to declining tertiary-level applicants. This paper intends to contribute to the on-going debate on the future of German studies per se by suggesting that there is a need for practitioners of all the varying approaches to the study of Germany to accept, and indeed welcome, other ways of ‘doing’ German studies.