German (Hons) University of Liverpool

Overview

German is a major language of business, commerce and science, as well as the gateway to understanding a vibrant modern multicultural society with a rich and complex past and influential cultural output.

Key Features

• German graduates are some of the most highly sought after by employers and our German students are particularly well-placed to achieve their full potential in the workplace.
• Whilst the perfection of language skills is at the heart of modern languages degrees in Liverpool, all our degrees demand a full intellectual engagement with a wide selection of areas in German studies. We research and teach German history, culture, literature and film from the 19th to 21st centuries, , linguistics and translation, and much more.
• Students in the  German (Hons) BA programme from University of Liverpool  participate in a number of extracurricular activities, including the regular writer-in-residence programme, the annual translation workshop organised across the Department and the Sauerkraut Cup inter-university football tournament run by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). They regularly win prestigious DAAD Summer School Grants.

Career opportunities:

Studying German goes beyond preparing students for a specific career, as the skills learned offer many possibilities. The Higher Education Statistics Agency consistently records high employment levels for language graduates, and the employability of graduates in German is excellent.

You will be equipped for graduate opportunities requiring competence in German, breadth of outlook, sympathetic understanding of other cultures, efficient selection and deployment of information from written sources, critical and evaluative judgements and excellent standards of literacy.

The programme has excellent links with a wide-range of German employers across all sectors: from financial to energy companies, manufacturers to retailers, including: 

• Nespresso,
• Framatome
• AON risk solutions
• KERN Global Language Services
• Bosch
• Zänker & Kollegen
• AO.com
• Ernst&Young
• Aldi
• Lidl.