MA German and History
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 History, a German and History degree centred on modern and historical study. The curriculum includes a full academic year abroad, which students can spend studying or working in destinations such as Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, and Heidelberg. The programme spans four years and incorporates a range of options for language learning and historical analysis. The first year covers a wide-ranging core course focused on key skills alongside introductory options spanning the medieval or early modern period, business, politics, and the arts. Year two offers specialised options such as Researching Disability in German Literature and Society, Culture, Modernity and the City in the Weimar Republic, and Reading Testimony in German, alongside language studies. During the third year, students undertake a full year abroad involving study or work across one or two destinations or institutions. The final year concentrates on advanced linguistic competence and textual analysis through modules including spoken German, German-to-English translation of literary and journalistic texts, Bertolt Brecht, and The Third Reich in Literature and Testimony.
Modules
- practise professional communication
- discover the value of languages in the workplace
- gain insights into possible career options
- a wide-ranging core course focused on key skills and habits, and showcasing the variety of topics available at Edinburgh, including in modern history
- one of two courses, covering either: the medieval period the early modern period
- the medieval period
- the early modern period
- business, economics and informatics
- politics, social policy, social anthropology and international relations
- art and architectural history
- history, classics and archaeology
- Celtic and Scottish ethnology
- linguistics and language sciences
- 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
- 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
- essay and précis writing
- German-to-English translation of literary and journalistic texts
- Bertolt Brecht
- From Girls in Uniform to Men in Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity on the German Screen
- Goethe and Schiller
- Identity and Self in Contemporary German Literature
- The Third Reich in Literature and Testimony
- Vulnerability and the City: German Literary Cartographies of Danger and Refuge