Papers 1 and 3 will be based on content from the following
four themes.

• Theme 1: Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland
• Theme 2: Politische und künstlerische Kultur im deutschen Sprachraum
• Theme 3: Immigration und die deutsche multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• Theme 4: Die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands

The four themes address a range of social issues and trends, as well as aspects of the political and artistic culture of Germany and German–speaking countries.

Themes 1, 3, and 4 focus on aspects of society or history of Germany only. Theme 2 requires students to broaden their knowledge across any German speaking country/countries
and/or community/communities.

Each theme is broken into three sub–themes. These sub–themes are each exemplified further.

A–level students will be expected to have studied the grammatical system and structures of the language during their course.

The independent research project may be based on any of the four themes of study or on a subject of interest of the student’s choosing, but must relate to the cultural and social context of the language studied. The independent research project must: 

• Be based on a question or statement defined and
  developed by the student individually to investigate a particular area of interest specifically related to the culture and/or society of one of the target language countries or communities.
• Include evidence of the student’s research findings,
  investigated independently, from a range of authentic sources, including the internet.
• Enable the student independently to contextualise, analyse and summarise findings.
• Enable the student to identify at least two written sources, which they can summarise and give a personal response to in their presentation.