Over one third of Europeans are native speakers of German, and the language ranks in the world's top 20 most widely spoken. As a working language for many international organisations, German makes an excellent partner subject to Business.Across all four years of our programme, including a year abroad, your studies will give you the chance to gain professional skills in all aspects of German, including:reading and listening writing and translatingspeaking and presentingAs well as language learning, you will also explore German-language literature, film and theatre. You will study these in the context of historical and political developments, from the eighteenth century to contemporary times.On joining us, beginners take our German 1A course students with substantial prior experience of learning the language typically take German 1B.By your final year, you will have developed the linguistic, critical and analytical skills to the standard of completing a dissertation or long essay.This programme is a more wide-ranging alternative to the International Business with German programme. Alongside courses in local and global business, you will study German and associated cultures over the full four years, and be able to take more option courses in Years 1 and 2.On your year abroad (Year 3), you will not necessarily study business courses, but you will complete an independent piece of research on a contemporary business issue relating to the country in which you are studying or working (usually Germany or Austria).In Year 4, in addition to German language and cultural study, you will choose three honours-level courses from options on different aspects of business.