爱丁堡的MA荣誉德国和历史学位课程旨在培养学生对目标国家或地区（包括他们的语言，历史，文化和社会问题）的兴趣以及对这些国家或地区的复杂知识和了解。此外，他们将在各种情况下被介绍给历史方法论问题，并通过他们在学位级别的研究来发展他们的分析和批判技能。该计划为社会提供受过知识训练的个人的资源，他们可以充当英国和非英国文化之间的知识和理解的渠道，并利用所获得的知识为英国和其他国家的财富创造做出贡献。毕业生进入许多不同领域的工作，包括公务员，工业，商业和教育。<br>国外年
German-speaking cultures have had a profound international influence. German ranks in the world's top 20 languages and in Europe, more people speak it as their native language than any other.<br><br>On this flexible joint honours programme, you have the chance to gain professional skills in all aspects of German, including:<br><br>reading and listening<br>writing and translating<br>speaking and presenting<br>You will spend a year of the programme studying and using your German abroad.<br><br>Alongside your language studies, in German classes, you will explore and compare historical and cultural developments in the German-speaking world from different perspectives. This will enable you to critically appraise topics such as:<br><br>German identities<br>Encounters with non-Germans<br>Nationalism and anti-nationalism<br>Nature and culture<br>Minority cultures<br>Migration in the German-speaking world<br>Beyond German history, you can choose to take courses in the history of other cultures and civilisations, from ancient Rome to the modern United States.<br><br>From the early Middle Ages to the most recent past, the Edinburgh experience is distinctive for its range of historical themes, chronological periods and geographical areas of study.<br><br>Work in history takes the form of interaction with evidence in primary form and through critical reading of a wide body of historical writing.<br><br>We use a rich variety of approaches to the past, including political history, cultural history, social history, economic history, intellectual history, gender history, and global and transnational history.<br><br>You will also be able to study topics such as the history of science, architecture and Western medicine.