Changing to doing German for a degree (from doing Politics for a year)
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Changing to doing German for a degree (from doing Politics for a year)Hello
I've been doing Politics for a year at Manchester and am really not enjoying it as much as I had thought - at first I was quite enamoured by it (as you would be if you were doing modules on USA vs UK etc.) but after the 1st semester it became a real drag, and looking at my list of modules for 2nd year I just feel deadly bored already. Now the thing is, I had done German for GCSE (as well as French) and had always wanted to a German degree all throughout the GCSE course - I had loved the language and the slightly (dare I say it?) masculine aspect about the grammar and the formation of it -- there's something that always charmed me about it, compared to French which I had never thought much of. But then I started the Edexcel AS German and had the worst teacher ever and as such wasn't particularly motivated myself to do much work and so came out with a scrape at C. I then transferred centres for A2 and chose initially not to carry on German after my AS grade but because of a problem with transferring exam boards for Religious Studies I ended up having to take it up for A2. To my surprise (I went from a sixth form to an FE college) my teacher was AMAZING and brought my borderline C at AS to a B at A-level (so much for the predicted D at my last school
). But, by the time I had progressed so much with my German my personal statement was already done for applying to Politics and I had began receiving offers... so I thought just to sail it and put Politics at Manchester as my firm. Yet I realised I do not enjoy it at all and find myself coming back to the German which keeps re-appearing in my life 
I've had a few convos and they're apparently okay with it per se (they relayed the statistic that only 700(!) people did a German degree of some form last year. I also heard that they are letting people in with grade Cs to do German at Manchester!!), but I'm curious as to what you all think about this? How does degree-level German differ from A-level German? Would a year removed from German be a negating factor for transferring? (i.e. do they discourage years out for languages like they do with Maths?) I just know I don't want to continue with Politics and the German had always been at the back of my mind...
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Re: Changing to doing German for a degree (from doing Politics for a year)Hi, I would speak to someone in the languages department at Manchester to see if you meet the requirements. A year out from languages, if you didn't do anything with the language in that time is not ideal but what about doing joint honours in Politics and German? You could even do German from scratch if you aren't confident in your ability. There's a girl on my course doing ab initio German with me even though she did AS because she got a D.
You obviously really want to do German so I would definitely ask, especially as you have A-level German. Languages are great
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Changing from Politics to GermanHello
I've been doing Politics for a year at Manchester and am really not enjoying it as much as I had thought - at first I was quite enamoured by it (as you would be if you were doing modules on USA vs UK etc.) but after the 1st semester it became a real drag, and looking at my list of modules for 2nd year I just feel deadly bored already. Now the thing is, I had done German for GCSE (as well as French) and had always wanted to a German degree all throughout the GCSE course - I had loved the language and the slightly (dare I say it?) masculine aspect about the grammar and the formation of it -- there's something that always charmed me about it, compared to French which I had never thought much of. But then I started the Edexcel AS German and had the worst teacher ever and as such wasn't particularly motivated myself to do much work and so came out with a scrape at C. I then transferred centres for A2 and chose initially not to carry on German after my AS grade but because of a problem with transferring exam boards for Religious Studies I ended up having to take it up for A2. To my surprise (I went from a sixth form to an FE college) my teacher was AMAZING and brought my borderline C at AS to a B at A-level (so much for the predicted D at my last school ). But, by the time I had progressed so much with my German my personal statement was already done for applying to Politics and I had began receiving offers... so I thought just to sail it and put Politics at Manchester as my firm. Yet I realised I do not enjoy it at all and find myself coming back to the German which keeps re-appearing in my life I've had a few convos and they're apparently okay with it per se (they relayed the statistic that only 700(!) people did a German degree of some form last year. I also heard that they are letting people in with grade Cs to do German at Manchester!!), but I'm curious as to what you all think about this? How does degree-level German differ from A-level German? Would a year removed from German be a negating factor for transferring? (i.e. do they discourage years out for languages like they do with Maths?) I just know I don't want to continue with Politics and the German had always been at the back of my mind... Oh, and I have FOUR hours of lectures this semester with Politics. Wonderful.
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