我们在现代语言学院和政治系的目标是发展和教育我们的学生成为“全球公民”。通过将德文与政治相结合，您将获得有益于就业领域的各种可转让技能和知识，使您在日益全球化的劳动力队伍中更具竞争力和吸引力，并为各种职业道路打开了大门。政治领域使您可以探索议会和政府如何运作，并评估诸如权力，自由，民主，冲突，合法性或问责制等政治思想，以及如何纳入国际关系。模块各不相同，使您可以探索政治在英国及更远地区的工作方式，并研究公共政策的制定方式。其他工作涉及司法，民主，人权和国际关系，使您对针对自己的特殊需求的政治有广泛的了解。
Our aim at the School of Modern Languages and the Department of Politics is to develop and educate our students to become global citizens. By combining German and Politics, you will gain a variety of transferable skills and knowledge beneficial to the world of employment, making you competitive and attractive in an increasingly global workforce and opening the doors to a variety of career paths. The field of politics allows you to explore how parliaments and governments function and evaluate political ideas such as power, freedom, democracy, conflict, legitimacy or accountability as well as incorporating international relations. Modules are varied, allowing you to explore how politics works in Britain and further afield as well as investigate how public policy is made. Other strands of work discuss justice, democracy, human rights and international relations, providing you with a broad understanding of politics tailored to your own particular needs. Throughout the programme, in addition to developing high-level language skills, students gain an in-depth intercultural understanding that encompasses a specific knowledge of German cultures allied to the ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture. You will develop high-level communication and critical-thinking skills, and foster resilience and independence through time spent in immersive foreign language contexts. Germany is a major actor on the European and world stage, possessing a rich and sophisticated culture. German is one of the official working languages of the European Union and of the United Nations. We offer German for both advanced students and beginners. In your first year, in addition to your language tuition, an introduction to German history and culture seeks to provide a solid foundation for more specialised studies as you progress through your course. Your understanding of the language will be further developed and refined during your year abroad, when you will experience life in a German-speaking country at first hand. In the final year, you have the opportunity to write a dissertation, which stimulates initiative and can serve as a useful preparation for postgraduate study.