Language, Culture and History: German History MA

UCL (University College London)

Learn from specialists in German and Austrian history while gaining an in-depth understanding of contemporary Europe and its past. The Language, Culture and History: German History MA incorporates a variety of optional modules including text-based language learning, enabling you to focus on topics of your choice. Taught at UCL, you’ll graduate from an internationally renowned university with the skills to work in a range of professional or academic settings. The Language, Culture and History: German History MA, offers you the opportunity to explore a range of aspects of German history, and will provide you with a grounding in one of the principal areas of modern history, essential for an understanding of contemporary Europe and its past. Text-based language teaching is available for students wishing to develop their linguistic skills. The Language, Culture and History: German History MA, comprises of one compulsory module. This core module provides a combination of methodology and research topics (historiography, literary studies, cultural studies), and is designed to work as a postgraduate-level foundation. Providing you with the specific skills and knowledge to research, write academic essays and the dissertation. You will also take optional modules and a dissertation. If you choose the 60-credit dissertation, you take 90 credits of optional modules. If you choose the 90-credit research dissertation, you take fewer optional modules (60 credits), in favour of writing an extended dissertation to focus on your own interests. The course is particularly suitable for students with a first degree in German, History, European Studies or other relevant humanities or social science subjects, who wish to develop specialised knowledge of the field, with a view to further research or as a qualification in its own right.