German Studies and Computing : BSc Hons

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster’s joint German Studies and Computing is taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures in conjunction with the School of Computing and Communications. German Studies at Lancaster was ranked 2nd in the UK by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017, while the School of Computing received the highest award in its most recent Periodic Quality Review of teaching.

Your German Studies programme enables you to acquire high-level language skills while gaining a thorough understanding of the country’s historical, cultural, social and political background in a global context. In Computing, you’ll focus on developing professional skills, including extensive study of software and systems development.

Your first year comprises an exploration of the German language and its cultural context, as well as core modules in the fundamentals of computer science and software development. Alongside this, you will study a minor subject of your choice.

Building on your language skills in Year 2, you will study the culture, politics and history of Germany and Austria in more depth, as well as selecting modules which are international in scope and promote a comparative understanding of Europe and beyond. You will combine these with modules such as Databases, HCI, Networking and Software Design.

Spending your third year abroad in a German-speaking country makes a major contribution to your command of the language, while deepening your intercultural sensitivity. You can study at a partner institution or conduct a work placement.

In your final year, you consolidate your German language skills, and study specialist culture and comparative modules, such as ‘Translation as a Cultural Practice’. You will also select Computing modules such as Internet Applications Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

As well as language and subject-related skills, a degree in languages develops rich interpersonal, intercultural, cognitive and transferable skills that can be utilised across a variety of careers such as accountancy, IT, business development, civil service, events management, finance, journalism, publishing, research and sales, as well as teaching and translating both in the UK and abroad. Combined with the technical and sought-after skills gained in Computer Science, graduates may go on to join major technology companies such as IBM, Google or BAE whilst others prefer software design, development and management roles within SMEs, or starting their own business.

A Level AAB

Required Subjects A level German, or if this is to be studied from beginners’ level, AS grade B or A level grade B in another foreign language, or GCSE grade A or 7 in a foreign language. Native German speakers will not be accepted onto this scheme.

GCSE Mathematics grade B or 6, English Language grade C or 4

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • German Language
  • Translation
  • Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • International
  • Design
  • Teaching
  • German Studies
  • Oral
  • Written
  • Cross-Cultural
  • Dissertation
  • Autocrats
  • Literature
  • Film

Course programme

Year 1

Core

  • Fundamentals of Computer Science
  • Part I German Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
  • Part I German Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)
  • Software Development
Year 2

Core

  • Becoming German: Post-War German-language, Culture and Identities
  • Computer Science Group Project
  • German Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: B2)
  • German Language: Oral Skills (post-Beginners/CEFR: B1)
  • German Language: Written Skills (CEFR: B2)
  • German Language: Written Skills (Post-Beginners/CEFR: B1)
  • Second Year Programme for Academic Skills, Employability and International placement preparation
  • Software Design

Optional

  • Advanced Programming
  • Computer Networks
  • Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
  • Databases
  • Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
  • Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
  • Social, Ethical and Professional Issues in Computing
  • Society on Screen: The Language of Film
  • Understanding culture
Year 3

Core

  • Residence Abroad: intercultural and academic reflection
Year 4

Core

  • German Language Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
  • German Language Written Skills (CEFR C1/C2)
  • Languages and Compilation

Optional

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
  • Computer Science Seminars
  • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
  • Full Unit Dissertation
  • Images of Austria: National Identity and Cultural Representation
  • Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
  • Literature and Fame in Contemporary Germany
  • Mirrors across Media: Reflexivity in Literature, Film, Comics and Video Games
  • Security and Risk
  • The Prosecution of 'Otherness' in Europe: Witchcraft, Heresy and Inquisition (14th -17th C)
  • Third Year Project
  • Translation as a Cultural Practice
  • Writing in the margins: narrating cross-cultural experience

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years. For more information about our teaching methods at Lancaster visit our Teaching and Learning section.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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£17,285

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German Studies and Computing : BSc Hons

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