📖Program Curriculum
YEAR 1
Compulsory
Culture and Language
Foundations of Linguistics
German language module (streamed according to entry level)
Choose one or two from
English in Use
Introduction to English Syntax
Introduction to Phonology
Language Acquisition
Language in the UK
Languages of the World
Sounds of English
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 2
Compulsory
Contemporary German Studies I OR Contemporary German Studies II (according to entry level)
German language module (streamed according to entry level)
Choose one from
Brecht and the Drama
German for Business
German Narrative Fiction: Text and Film
German Play
German Romanticism in its European Context
The (Re-)Birth of Tragedy: Schiller, Nietzsche and other Legacies
Choose up to four from
Aspects of Meaning
Describing Prosody
Explaining Grammatical Structure
Historical Linguistics
History of English
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Mind
Language and the Media
Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Theory
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
YEAR 3
Year abroad
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 the professional world, either on a work placement with our support, or independently with our approval.
YEAR 4
German compulsory
German language module
Choose one or two from
Advanced German for Business
Anglo-German Cultural Relations Past and Present
German Poetry in the 20th Century
German Sociolinguistics
German Swiss Literature and Culture
Languages in the Classroom: Teaching German
Modern Languages Research Project
Choose up to four from
Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Formal Semantics
Philosophy of Language
Structures of Spoken English
Syntactic Theory
Unfamiliar Languages
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 the professional world, either on a work placement with our support, or independently with our approval.




