German and Spanish with a year abroad

Each course is divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

In your first year, you will take 60 credits in German and 60 credits in Spanish.

German

If you are an ab initio student, in your first year you are required to take:

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

If you are a non-native German speaker, in your first year you are required to take:

• German Core Language I (30 credits)
• Texts and Contexts (30 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your first year you are required to take:

• Translation from and into German I (15 credits)
• Texts and Contexts (30 credits)

Spanish

In your first year you are required to take:

• Core Spanish Language I (30 credits)
• Global Iberias (30 credits)

German

There are no optional German modules in Year One.

Native German speakers are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

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

Spanish

There are no optional modules in your first year.

2nd Year

In your second year, you will take 60 credits in German and 60 credits in Spanish.

German

If you are an ab initio student, you are required to take:

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

At least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may typically include:

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

If you are a non-native German speaker, in your second year you are required to take:

• German Core Language II (30 credits)

At least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may typically include:

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

If you are a native German speaker, in your second year you are required to take:

• Translation from and into German II (15 credits)

You are required to take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may typically include:

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

Spanish

Second year students are required to take:

• Core Spanish Language II (30 credits)

German

If you are an ab initio student, you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Politics and Culture in Cold War Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• Marketing the Margins: Case Studies in the Literary Marketplace (15 credits)
• A Global Metropolis: London in German Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)

If you are a non-native German speaker, you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Politics and Culture in Cold War Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• Marketing the Margins: Case Studies in the Literary Marketplace (15 credits)
• A Global Metropolis: London in German Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Politics and Culture in Cold War Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• Marketing the Margins: Case Studies in the Literary Marketplace (15 credits)
• A Global Metropolis: London in German Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)

Spanish

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

• Catalan Language (15 credits)
• The Study of Gender in Spanish American Literature and Culture (15 credits)
• Memory in Modern Spanish Culture (15 credits)
• Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
• Visuality, Literature and Modern Life in Latin America (15 credits)
• Language Acts and Worldmaking in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (15 credits)

You will spend your third year abroad, for one semester in a German-speaking country and the other semester in a Spanish-speaking country. Current partner institutions include:

German

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

Spanish

• Alicante
• Cadiz
• Carlos III (Madrid)
• Córdoba
• País Vasco
• Pompeu Fabra
• PUC (Chile)
• Tec (Querétaro, Mexico)
• Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus)
• UNAM (Mexico)
• Pacifico (Peru)
• Salamanca
• San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

You will also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or to undertake an internship or work placement in a German or Spanish-speaking environment, which you will normally be expected to organise independently, allowing you to explore career prospects and personal interests.

4th Year

In your fourth year, you will take 60 credits in German and 60 credits in Spanish.

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native German speaking student, you are required to take the following module:

• German Core Language III (30 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your fourth year, you are required to take:

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

Spanish

In your fourth year, you are required to take:

• Core Spanish Language IV (30 credits)

German

You are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional German modules, which may typically include:

• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• German Capitalism: Business and Society (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• Cinema of Entanglement: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East & West (15 credits)
• Germany in Motion: Migration, Integration and Political Transformation (15 credits)
• Death & the Afterlife in Medieval & Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)

You are required to take 45 credits from a range of optional German modules, which may typically include:

• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• German Capitalism: Business and Society (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• Cinema of Entanglement: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East & West (15 credits)
• Germany in Motion: Migration, Integration and Political Transformation (15 credits)
• Death & the Afterlife in Medieval & Modern German Literature (15 credits)

Spanish

In addition, you are required to choose two optional 15 credit modules, which may typically include:

• Advanced Topics in Applied Linguistics (15 credits)
• Advanced Catalan Language (15 credits)
• Myth & Archive: 19th & 20th Century Rewritings on Colonial Latin America (15 credits)
• Stereotypes in Modern Spanish Cinema (15 credits)
• Key Terms & Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts (15 credits)
• Journey through Spain: Travel Writing in Modern Spain (15 credits)
• History & Imagination in 19th-century Spanish Narrative (15 credits)
• Writing Women in Pre-Modern Spain (15 credits)
• Imperial Visions in Iberian Literature (15 credits)
• Research Dissertation option
• Catalan Culture (15 credits)
• The Writer and the Public: Journalism in Spain (15 credits)
• Comparing Romance Languages (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.