German & History with a year abroad

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

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

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, you are required to take:

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

History

In your first year, you are required to take:

• Historical Sources, Skills and Approaches (30 credits)

German (native speakers only)

Native-German speakers then take one 15-credit optional module from a range of options which may typically include:

• Milestones of German History (15 credits)

• One Hundred and Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)

• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature & Society (15 credits)

• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

History

You will then take a further 30 credits from a range of optional modules, which may include:

• The Making of Britain 400-1400 (30 credits)
• European History 400-1500 (30 credits)
• Early Modern Britain 1500-1750 (30 credits)
• Power, Culture and Belief in Europe, 1500-1800 (30 credits)
• Europe from 1793 to 1991 (30 credits)
• Politics and Society in Britain, 1780-1945 (30 credits)
• The Worlds of the British Empire, c. 1700-1960 (30 credits)
• Other relevant modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or Global Institutes, with the approval of the programme convenor.
• View first year History module descriptions

Year 2

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

German

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

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

You are also 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)
• Education of Humanity (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)

You are also 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)

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 also 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 & Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)
• 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)

History
There are no required History modules in year 2.

German

If you are an ab initio student, in addition, you are required to take a further 15 credits chosen from optional modules which may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• 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)

If you are a non-native German-speaker in addition, you are required to take a further 15 credits chosen from optional modules which may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• 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)

History

In your second year, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional 30-credit modules, which may typically include:

• The Northern Ireland Troubles (30 credits)
• History of Feminism ( 30 credits)
• The Black Death in England (30 credits)
• Faraway so Close: The Middle East since 1800 (30 credits)
• China: From Imperial State to People’s Republic (30 credits)
• The Civilising Mission: French Imperialism since 1750 (30 credits)
• War in the Pacific, 1898 to 1975 & beyond: Strategy & Diplomacy (30 credits)
• China: From Imperial State to People’s Republic (30 credits)
• An additional range of intercollegiate Group II 30 credit modules offered by our partner colleges in the University of London

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

• Atlantic Slavery: West Africa & the Caribbean, 1492-1807 (15 credits)
• Europe in the Second World War (15 credits)
• The Hundred Years War (15 credits)
• Electric Cities : The Experience of Modernity in London, Melbourne, New York & Paris, 1870 – 1929 (15 credits)
• Orientalism, Race, Islam (15 credits)
• Students may also take one optional 15 credit module offered elsewhere in the Faculty

View second year History module descriptions

Year 3

You will spend your third year abroad at a partner institution, which currently include:

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

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

Year 4

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

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student, in your fourth year you are required to take:

• German Core Language III (30 credits)

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

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

History

In your fourth year, there are no required modules.

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student, in your fourth year you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional German 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 [European & International Studies] (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)
  

If you are a native speaker, in your fourth year you are required to take 45 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 and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• German in the World: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics [European & International Studies] (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)

History

You are required to take a 30 credit 'special subject' module, from a range of optional modules, which may include:

• Romans & Barbarians: The Transformation of the Roman West 350-700 (30 credits)
• Women & Gender in Early Modern England (30 credits)
• Britain’s Thatcher (30 credits)
• The Enlightenment (30 credits)
• Red, White and Blues: Jazz and the United States in the Twentieth Century (30 credits)
• The Experience of Power in Nigeria since 1900 (30 credits)
• A range of additional University of London intercollegiate ‘special subject’ modules

In addition, you will also be required to take either the special subject associated dissertation (30 credits) or a Free-Standing Long Essay (30 credits), which can be on any subject of your choice.

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. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.

View final year History module descriptions