This flexible joint honours programme gives you the opportunity to study German in its cultural context while exploring how the English language has changed over time.Combining the linguistic and cultural study of languages demonstrates that you are a good communicator, a resilient problem solver, and someone open to other cultures and new ideas.Together with your core courses, the options you will take on this programme can help you gain skills in many areas of the arts, humanities and social sciences.GermanAcross 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 listeningwriting 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 more 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.The English language has a well-recorded history of more than 1,000 years, and its changes can be traced through written materials ranging from medieval manuscripts to text messages, and more recently, through recordings of spoken English.Your studies will develop your knowledge and understanding of:the principles of theoretical linguisticsthe way we learn languagethe regional and social variations of language, particularly the English languagemethods of communicationAs part of the programme, you can opt to study the Scots language, which has its own rich linguistic and literary tradition.English Language courses of particular interest to students of German cover:the speech sounds of the world's languagesvariation in the languages of the world