a) Knowledge and understanding:

Students will have the opportunity to gain knowledge and critical understanding of key aspects of the linguistics of contemporary German (A6), to gain a deeper awareness and understanding of the differences and similarities between German and English (A4), and to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the German language, including its registers and linguistic structures (A1).

b) Intellectual skills:

Students will gather, process and evaluate information from a variety of paper, audio, and electronic sources in English and German (B1). The will develop their understanding of linguistic concepts and models used in descriptive linguistics (B3, B5), and will gain experience in reflecting critically and making judgements about the accuracy or appropriateness of such theoretical constructs (B2). They will learn to identify and describe questions and problems (B4) and to apply techniques and concepts appropriate for the analysis of linguistic data (B7).

c) Professional practical and transferable skills:

Students will develop their oral communication skills (C1), as well as their listening comprehension skills in German (C2, C3), and their ability to read German in different registers, and recognise the differences (C3).

d) Transferable skills:

Students will develop their ability to present and assess technical linguistic information in writing in English (D1); to work independently (D4) and in groups (D3). Students will be expected to organise and manage working time, schedule tasks and meet deadlines (D7) and to write and think productively under pressure (under examination conditions) (D5). Students will need to use IT effectively as a research tool to aid their learning, in particular using electronic corpora as a source of date for their essays (D8).