German degree without A level in the language. Urgent!!!

Hi this may make me sound like a moron which may not be too far from the truth but due to being rubbish at sixth form I am redoing my A-levels at a local college.

The only problem is I can't get a German a-level qualification anywhere locally which was the main subject I wanted to take. I want to carry on with German into further education at university but all of the unis I have looked at so far require an a-level in the language.

Can anyone help me in any way? Ideally I would either be able to take an a-level in German somewhere, or find a university that doesn't require the subject to have been taken at a-level. If anyone has any ideas, you will have my awesomest thankyous.

Reply 1

cabeza_loca

In some universities you could take german as an ab-initio language with another langauge at a-level. So if you take french or spanish or another a-level language you could study both at degree level.

Reply 2

kellywood_5

17

Lauraaaaa

In some universities you could take german as an ab-initio language with another langauge at a-level. So if you take french or spanish or another a-level language you could study both at degree level.

Although it's much harder to find ab initio courses in languages like German and French because the majority of sixth forms and colleges offer them, so it might limit you a fair bit in your choice of uni.

Reply 3

luckysmartie

At Bath, you can do German from post GCSE, if you have that.

Reply 4

Synthesized

OP

I don't want to learn another language as that will just distract me from German and I really don't have the desire to. Bath looks good, are there any other uni's that offer degrees from post GCSE German?

Reply 5

kellywood_5

17

The only problem with that is that a lot of unis ask for an A-level in any foreign language even if you want to do a different one ab initio to prove your language learning ability.

Reply 6

*soph*

14

Most Uni's offering it ab-initio will let you take it as part of a joint honours degree. Other thing to think about is an Open University course in place of the A level? Find out what the Uni's would accept first though!

Reply 7

À la folie, pas du tout

12

*soph*

Most Uni's offering it ab-initio will let you take it as part of a joint honours degree. Other thing to think about is an Open University course in place of the A level? Find out what the Uni's would accept first though!

yeh i think at some unis (maybe have a look at kent, essex, sussex etc) you can do an ab-inito language as part of a joint honours degree with another subject, for example history, and ithink they accept you with just a gcse in a foreign language. do you have a foreign language gcse? if not you could do one at evening classes and it might be better than doing the whole a level, especially if it's in a language you don't want to study.

Reply 8

kellywood_5

17

http://search.ucas.co.uk/cgi-bin/hsrun/search/search/StateId/RJ7JVoJhlQaPRX5yt5H6DFuJTDY2w-38ML/HAHTpage/search.HsSearch.submitForm?txtSubject=German&cmbQual=DEG&cmbAttend=FT&cmbInst=&button1.x=35&button1.y=6

These are all the unis that offer German, and just from having a quick browse, you actually have quite a lot of options. However, most unis will only let you do Joint Honours, ie German and/with another non language, or 2 languages, German and another that you have at A-level, or want an A-level or at least a GCSE in any foreign language to prove your ability.

German degree without A level in the language. Urgent!!!

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