Language, Culture and History: German Studies MA

Enhance your German language skills while exploring aspects of German culture, thought and society. The Language, Culture and History: German Studies MA will improve your knowledge of both German language and context, heightening your employability prospects in professional or academic settings. Taught at UCL, renowned for its modern language courses and research, this is an opportunity to get ahead in this field. This MA enables further exploration of aspects of German literature, culture, history, politics, and social and political thought, within an explicitly thematic and theoretical framework. You will be able to specialise in particular areas of interest through the optional modules. Text-based language teaching is available should you wish to develop your linguistic skills. The Language, Culture and History: German Studies MA, comprises of one compulsory module. This core module provides a combination of methodology and research topics (historiography, literary studies, cultural studies), and is designed to work as a postgraduate-level foundation. Providing you with the specific skills and knowledge to research, write academic essays and the dissertation. You will also take optional modules and a dissertation. If you choose the 60-credit dissertation, you take 90 credits of optional modules. If you choose the 90-credit research dissertation, you take fewer optional modules (60 credits), in favour of writing an extended dissertation to focus on your own interests. This course is particularly suitable for students with a first degree in German, European studies, history, politics or sociology who wish to strengthen their knowledge of German culture and history; either as a foundation for subsequent doctoral research or as a graduate qualification in its own right.

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. A knowledge of German at least equivalent to CEFRL C1 (Advanced) is required. Applications from students who do not have formal qualifications in German but who are competent in the language, will be considered.