Calendar: 1975-1976 Page 437

Annual Report of the Delegacy lxv External Department of the University for students preparing for External degrees in French at Honours and General level Dr Clarke contributed lecture on 'Comic artifice and social sophistication in Moliere's Comedies' to an intercollegiate series on Moliere in October 1973 He delivered lecture on 'Literature and revolution in seventeenth-century France' to the Birmingham Uni- versity French Society in February 1974 Dr Rinsler contributed lecture on Victor Hugo to the series Romanticism given at the Courtauld Institute for the Department of Extra-Mural Studies University of London The appointment of Reader in French Linguistics has made it possible to include Modern Linguistics among the options available for undergraduates in the examination and to introduce from October 1974 newmethodsof teaching the use of the modern language with intensive use of the language laboratory and group work on great variety of linguistic material Work in applied linguistics will lead to an optional Certificate of Additional Linguistic Compe- tence for students entering in October 1974 DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN Numbers of Students Single Honours 42 Combined Studies 16 Subsidiary 22 Occasional Students Postgraduates 11 Departmental Notes The session appropriately opened with Professor Wisbey's Inaugural Lecture on 'Encounters with the Demonic in Medieval German Literature' Two members of the Department Professor Wisbey and Mr Beckley were granted study leave during part of the session During Professor Wisbey's absence Mr Flood served as Acting Head of Department During the year members of the Department attended several con- ferences Professor Wisbey and Dr Gartner both read papers at the Anglo-German Colloquium on Late Medieval German Literature held at Hamburg in September 1973 Mr Flood and Mr Jones also