German and linguistics ba (hons)
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
4 Years
Teaching
Teaching and learning
You'll receive approximately 10 to 16 hours of weekly contact time, comprising lectures, seminars and language classes.
You will spend up to five hours per week in language classes – in small groups of no more than 20 for classroom or language lab teaching, and no more than 10 for oral and aural work.
For every hour spent in class, you'll complete a further two to three hours of independent study.
Assessment
Assessment typically includes a combination of research diaries, poster presentations, class tests and exams. In your final year, you will do a research project, working on real data, using cutting-edge theoretical ideas, which will bring together everything you have learned.
Resources and facilities
The School offers excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:
the Multimedia Language Resource Centre, equipped with digital labs and resource rooms, teacher and student workstations, interactive whiteboards, and software for viewing live international satellite TV broadcasts
a phonetics laboratory, equipped with a soundproof recording studio
language clubs and social activities, including film screenings, discussion groups and debates
subscriptions to foreign newspapers and journals
Writer-in-Residence programme for German students
regular events organised by the London Branch of the Gesellschaft für Deutsche Sprache, which invites students to get involved in its work.
Learn another language
If you’re interested in learning another language, you can sign up for a course at Queen Mary’s Language Centre, where you can choose from Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Japanese or Spanish.
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Subjects
- Project
- Teaching
- German Language
- Options
- English
- Communication Training
Course programme
Structure
The German language modules you take will depend on your entry level. We offer separate classes for beginner, post-GCSE, post-A-level and native speakers.
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Year 4
Year 1 Compulsory
- Critical Thinking and Writing for Modern Foreign Languages
- Foundations of German Studies (for post A-Level and native speaker entrants) or European Literature and its Contexts (for beginners). GCSE entrants may take either option
- Foundations of Linguistics
- German language module (streamed according to entry level)
- English in Use
- Introduction to English Syntax
- Introduction to Phonology
- Language Acquisition
- Language in the UK
- Languages of the World
- Sounds of English
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 2 Compulsory
- Contemporary German Studies I OR Contemporary German Studies II (according to entry level)
- German language module (streamed according to entry level)
- Brecht and the Drama
- German for Business
- German Narrative Fiction: Text and Film
- German Play
- German Romanticism in its European Context
- The (Re-)Birth of Tragedy: Schiller, Nietzsche and other Legacies
- Aspects of Meaning
- Describing Prosody
- Explaining Grammatical Structure
- Historical Linguistics
- History of English
- Language and Ethnicity
- Language and Mind
- Language and the Media
- Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Theory
- Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 3
- Year abroad
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 4 German compulsory
- German language module
- Advanced German for Business
- Anglo-German Cultural Relations Past and Present
- German Poetry in the 20th Century
- German Sociolinguistics
- German Swiss Literature and Culture
- Languages in the Classroom: Teaching German
- Modern Languages Research Project
- Bilingualism and Multilingualism
- Formal Semantics
- Philosophy of Language
- Structures of Spoken English
- Syntactic Theory
- Unfamiliar Languages
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year abroad
You will spend your year abroad in Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland.
You have three options for how to spend your year abroad:
- teaching English as a foreign language assistant
- attending university
- in the professional world, either on a work placement with our support, or independently with our approval.
German and linguistics ba (hons)