The Dual Honours Degree in English and German

We strongly welcome applications from students who want to combine German and English. The literary skills and enthusiasms you bring to your English degree are a major help as you study German literature, culture and thought; and your growing familiarity with literature in German will add a dimension to your studies in the English Department which most of your fellow, monolingual students will lack. The German Studies programme is not an exclusively literary one, as it embraces many other areas of society, culture and history, from all of which you can select freely. But we offer a comprehensive range of literary courses, for students keen to pursue them, and have several staff who are well-known specialist researchers in different fields of German literature.

Your Dual Honours programme in German and English will also include a full year abroad, which can be spent at a German or German-speaking university or on work-placement (either in a commercial setting or as an assistant teacher). The German-speaking cities offer a great range of literary facilities which you can enjoy; and, at your German university, you can include a option in English Literature (preferably studied in German!). If you choose a work-placement, you can research a year-abroad project or dissertation on a literary topic, perhaps a comparative one.

Dual Honours Germanic Studies and English provide you with a combination of skills which is highly attractive in the modern world of work: the extensive training in analysis and analytical writing which comes with an Arts degree, and the foreign language talent and detailed experience of a foreign culture which few of your contemporaries possess.

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