Mathematics and German: University of Southampton

Course overview

Alongside your mathematics studies, this degree will prepare you to conduct yourself professionally in a foreign language and culture. You will spend year three abroad in a country where your chosen language is spoken.

As people in different countries in Europe and in the world work together more and more closely, it is important to understand from first-hand experience how other countries and cultures work, and to be comfortable in a foreign language and culture. At the same time, as business, political decision making, public and private sector management and the social sciences are becoming more quantitative in their methods, making mathematical models and simulations, in the widest sense, and understanding and interpreting such models and results, is also crucial in ever more lines of work. Therefore combining the study of mathematics with that of a foreign language and culture, and a year of study abroad, prepares you for many things you will find in your work after university. This is a four year course in which the third year is normally spent abroad in a country where the language of study is normally spoken (normally in a Mathematics Department of a University).

Course content

• Calculus
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Statistics
• Differential equations
• Abstract algebra
• Number theory
• Fluid dynamics
• Relativity, black holes and cosmology
• Communicating and researching mathematics

Entry requirements

• A level: AAB, including mathematics and relevant language, or ABB, including further mathematics and relevant language
• IB: 34 points, 16 at higher level, including 6 in mathematics
• Intake: 150
• Average applicants per place: 7–8

Main University Contact

• Postal Address: University of Southampton
  University Road
  Southampton
  SO17 1BJ
• Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 5000
• Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3131
• Email: admissns@soton.ac.uk
• Website: http://www.soton.ac.uk/