German with business management 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, in the form of 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 written exams and coursework, final-year dissertations, independent projects and creative journals.
Resources and facilities
The Schools offer excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:
the Queen Mary library
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
subscriptions to foreign newspapers and journals
language clubs and social activities, including film screenings, discussion groups and debates
a purpose-built media suite to support student entrepreneurship.
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
- Teaching
- Business and Management
- German Language
- German Speaking
- German Literature
- Language
- Syntax
- Grammar
- Literature
- Writing
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 Language Students
- Economics for Business
- Foundations of German Studies (for post-A-level and native speakers) OR European Literature and its Contexts (for beginners). GCSE entrants may take either option
- Fundamentals of Management
- German language module (streamed according to entry level - for all levels apart from native speakers)
Choose one or two from
- Austria Today
- German Play
- Germany Today
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Languages of the World
- Reading German Film I
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 2 Compulsory
- Contemporary German Studies I OR Contemporary German Studies II
- Financial Accounting
- German language module (streamed according to entry level)
- Marketing
Choose up to three from
- Brecht and the Drama
- Computers and Languages
- German Narrative Fiction: Text and Film
- German Play
- German Romanticism in its European Context
- German Thought I
- German for Business
- Language Myths
- Reading German Film II
- The (Re-)Birth of Tragedy: Schiller, Nietzsche and other Legacies
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 3
- Year abroad
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 4 Compulsory
- German language module
- Strategy
- The Management of Human Resources
Choose up to four from
- Advanced German for Business
- Anglo-German Cultural Relations Past and Present
- Faust in Legend, Literature and Art
- Foreign influences and Linguistic Purism in the History of German
- German Poetry in the 20th century
- German Sociolinguistics
- German Swiss Literature and Culture
- Languages in the Classroom: Teaching German
- Modern Languages Research Project
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 Germany
- in the professional world, either on a work placement with our support, or independently with our approval.
German with business management ba (hons)