German & History with a year abroad

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 the following modules:

• Introductory German (30 credits)
• Texts & 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 & Contexts (30 credits)

If you are a native-German speaker, you are required to take:

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

History

In your first year, you are required to take:

• Historical Sources, Skills and Approaches (30 credits)

German

There are no required modiles for those on the ab initio and non-native German pathways.

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 & 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 & Society in Britain, 1780-1945 (30 credits)
• The Worlds of the British Empire, c. 1700-1960 (30 credits)
• World History 1870s-2000s

2nd Year

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

German

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 & Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

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

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

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

• German Core Language II (30 credits)

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

• Translation from & into German II (15 credits)

History

There are no required History modules in year 2.

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native German pathway student, you are required to take a further 15 credits chosen from optional modules which may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• A Global Metropolis. London in German Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Politics and Culture in Cold War Germany (15 credits)
• Marketing the Margins: Case Studies in the Literary Marketplace (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 native German pathway student, you are required to take a further 30 credits chosen from optional modules which may typically include:

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

3rd Year

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.

4th Year

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 & 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)
• 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 [European & International Studies] (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 & 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)
• 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 [European & International Studies] (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 & 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.