French & German with a year abroad

In each year you will study a required module plus a combination of optional modules totalling 120 credits.

You take the required modules outlined, and native German speakers also choose one optional German module (this is because their German language module is worth 15 credits, rather than the 30-credit required language module taken by non-native speakers).

French

You are required to take the following modules:

• Core French Language (30 credits)
• Introduction to French Literature (30 credits)

German

German ab initio students are required to take the following modules:

• Introductory German (30 credits)
• Texts & Contexts for German ab initio (30 credits)

Non-native German speakers are required to take the following modules:

• German Language Core Module I (30 credits)
• Texts & Contexts (30 credits)

• Native German speakers are required to take the following modules:
• Translation from & into German I (15 credits)
• Texts & Contexts (30 credits)

Native German speakers only:

In addition, native German speakers are required to take a further 15 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Milestones of German History (15 credits)
• One Hundred & Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)
• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature & Society (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

In your second year, you will study required modules plus two optional modules in French and two or three options in German (depending on whether you are a non-native/ab initio or native German speaker).

French

You are required to take the following modules:

• French Core Language (15 credits)
• The Practice of Translation (15 credits)

German

German ab initio students are required to take the following module:

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

German ab initio students are also required to take at least one of the optional 15 credit modules that contain some pre-modern content from a selection that may typically include:

• Gender and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)
• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)

Non-native German speakers are required to take:

• German Core Language Module II (30 credits)

Non-native German speakers are also required to take least one of the optional 15 credit modules that contain some pre-modern content from a selection that may typically include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender & Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

Native German speakers are required to take the following modules:

• Translation from & into German II (15 credits)

Native German speakers are also required to take at least one module that contain some pre-modern content from a selection that may typically include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender & Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

French

In addition, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional French modules which may typically include:

• Death & Desire: Love in French Literature Before 1700 (15 credits)
• Writing the Self since 1700 in French Literature (15 credits)
• French poetry after 1800 (15 credits)
• The French Novel after 1700 (15 credits)
• The Idea of France (15 credits)
• Modernity and the City (15 credits)
• Modern French History (15 credits)
• French Political Thought II (15 credits)

German

In addition, German ab initio students are required to take one of a range of optional 15 credit modules, which may typically include:

• German in London. The City in Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Society & Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past & Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)

Non-native speakers are required to take one of a range of optional 15 credit modules, which may typically include:

• German in London. The City in Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Society & Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)

In addition, native German speakers are required to take two of a range of optional 15 credit modules, which may typically include:

• German in London. The City in Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Society & Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)

This year of study is spent abroad in French and German-speaking countries.

Assessment for this year will depend on whether you choose to split the year between two countries, or spend the entire year in one. It will also depend on how you opt to spend your year: as an exchange student at a French or German university, a language assistant teaching English, or on an approved work placement.

Partner institutions for the French semester currently include:

• Université Lumière Lyon II
• Université Paris-Sorbonne
• Université Paris-Nanterre
• Aix-Marseille Université
• Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (Martinique)
• École Normale Supérieure (Paris)
• École Normale Supérieure (Lyon)
• Sciences Po (Paris)
• Sciences Po (Lyon)
• Université de Montréal
• Université Laval
• Université de Strasbourg

Partners for the German semester abroad currently include:

• Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
• Universität Wien
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Universität Mannheim

You will study the required modules below plus up to three optional modules in French and German.

French

The following module is required for this course:

• French Language Final Year (15 credits)

German

German Fourth year ab initio and non-native speaking students are required to take:

• German Core Language Module III (30 credits)

Native German speakers

Fourth year native speaking students are required to take:

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

French

All fourth year students also take 45 credits from a range of optional French modules that may typically include:

• The Stylistics of Translation (15 credits)
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Recent French Thought (15 credits)
• Contemporary Women’s Writing in French (15 credits)
• Images of Algeria (15 credits)
• Shadows of Enlightenment (15 credits)
• Old French Romance (15 credits)
• Citizenship & Exclusion: Republicanism & its Discontents (15 credits)
• Class & Conflict in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (15 credits)
• Proust (15 credits)
• Sixteenth-century Encounters with the ‘New World’ (15 credits)
• Québécois Fiction & Film across the Canadian Bicultural Divide (15 credits)
• Citizenship & Exclusion: Theories & Practices (15 credits)
• Satire in Early Modern France (15 credits)
• Politics & the Moving Image in post-1968 France (15 credits)
• Queer Sexuality in Pre-Modern French Literature (15 credits)
• The French Revolution Effect: Italy, France, Germany, Greece (15 credits)
• Other relevant modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or Global Institutes (15 credits)

German

In addition, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional 15 credit modules, which may typically include:

• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (15 credits)
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th & 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• German in the World: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East & West (15 credits)
• Writing in Tongues: Literature & Migration in the Modern German Context (15 credits)
• Death & the Afterlife in Medieval & Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then & Now (15 credits)

Native German speakers

In addition, you are required to take three of a range of optional 15 credit modules, which may
typically include:

• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (15 credits)
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• German in the World: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East and West (15 credits)
• Writing in Tongues: Literature & Migration in the Modern German Context (15 credits)
• Death and the Afterlife in Medieval and Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to date,innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.