The Language, Culture and History: German History MA offers you the opportunity to explore a range of aspects of German history, and will provide you with a grounding in one of the principal areas of modern history, essential for an understanding of contemporary Europe and its past. Text-based language teaching is available for students wishing to develop their linguistic skills.
The Language, Culture and History: German History MA comprises of one core module that introduces a combination of research methods, historiography, and approaches to literary and cultural studies. This module provides a strong foundation at graduate level and helps you develop the skills and knowledge needed to carry out research, write academic essays and your final dissertation.
You will also take optional modules and a dissertation. The optional modules you choose will be specific to your subject language, as well as cultural modules, which cover a range of topics that draw on literature, film, history, and linguistics, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Further details can be found on our Postgraduate Modules page.
Modern Languages graduates are highly valued by employers for their linguistic and cultural knowledge, and for their set of transferable skills. These include the ability to speak, understand and write in a foreign language, intercultural understanding, translation and communication skills, and analytical rigour.
The degree offers graduates a pathway towards doctoral research in the field of German and European history. Many students progress from one of our MA courses to an MPhil or PhD research degree.
With their specialist knowledge and language skills, German Master’s graduates can be found in the fields of business, finance, the media, international agencies, translation, publishing, research and academia.
SELCS & CMII graduates can be found in careers that cross international boundaries and our graduates go on to work in varied roles across the public, private and charitable sectors, as well as working as language consultants and teachers.
Recent graduates from our Language Culture and History MA courses, have gone on to work in a range of challenging careers from IT and technology to museums and university teaching. Our Graduates are found in sectors such as publishing, journalism and translation (11.1%); PR, advertising and marketing (3.7%); media (7.4%); teaching and other educational activities (18.5%). They have gone on to work for employers such as the BBC, Toyota and the Financial Conduct Authority, while others have gone onto further study.*