MA German and Business
Entry requirements
A level: from AAA to ABB (required: no specific A level subjects required) IB: 34 points with 655 at HL
About this course
MA (Hons) in German and Business, a business and management and german degree combining linguistic fluency with commercial expertise. Core topics include Communication & Writing, Entrepreneurship. The four-year programme includes an academic year abroad spent studying or working, and a final-year dissertation or long essay. The first year covers introductory business principles alongside language study through modules such as strategy, finance, marketing, and people management. The second year expands into specialized cultural and business subjects through modules including international business, human resource management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and Researching Disability in German Literature and Society. The third year involves studying or working abroad in destinations such as Berlin, Vienna, or Hamburg, completing independent research on a contemporary business issue. The fourth year focuses on advanced language proficiency and cultural studies alongside three chosen business options.
Modules
- practise professional communication
- discover the value of languages in the workplace
- gain insights into possible career options
- strategy
- finance
- marketing
- people management
- linguistics and language sciences
- business, economics and informatics
- politics, social policy, social anthropology and international relations
- art and architectural history
- history, classics and archaeology
- Celtic and Scottish ethnology
- philosophy, divinity and law
- Researching Disability in German Literature and Society
- Culture, Modernity and the City in the Weimar Republic
- Reading Testimony in German
- The Contemporary Short Story in German
- Screening Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity on the German Screen and Beyond
- German Colonialism: History, Memory, Controversy
- finance
- marketing
- innovation and entrepreneurship
- organisation studies
- international business
- business analytics
- understanding and delivering public services
- human resource management
- business economics
- business simulation
- Cultural Responses to War
- Migration, Exile, Diaspora
- Crime and Detection in Literature
- Gender and Culture
- The Coming-of-Age Narrative
- Introduction to European Cinema
- Dynamics of Language and Power
- Languages Beyond University
- Berlin
- Augsburg
- Hamburg
- Heidelberg
- Tübingen
- Freiburg
- Leipzig
- Mainz
- Vienna
- study in one or two destinations
- work in one or two destinations
- study in one destination and work in another
- two semesters at a single institution
- one semester at two different institutions (in different destinations)
- arrange to work or volunteer with a private company or charity
- apply to an established placement scheme, such as the British Council’s English Language Assistants programme
- Student Wellbeing Service
- Student Counselling
- Student Disability and Learning Support
- University emergency helpline (available 24 hours a day)
- spoken German
- academic writing, such as essays and commentaries
- literary translation
- literature
- film
- theatre
- society