German & Music with a year abroad

King's College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Expand your knowledge and understanding of the German-language, culture and society and study the central role of music in today’s culture as a creative mode of self-expression and a significant form of knowledge. Attain a high level of proficiency in German on this joint honours degree based in the heart of London. Our required language modules cater for all levels.

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London
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On request

About this course

King’s is ranked as 6th in the UK for modern languages (QS World Rankings by Subject 2018).

Year abroad in a German-speaking country offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in German-speaking culture and society and attain language fluency.

Broad range of specialist modules in German Studies, from medieval to contemporary literature as well as politics, history, cultural studies, and film.

Central location offers access to libraries and resources including the Goethe-Institut and Austrian Cultural Forum.

Our small Department offers a friendly feel and has a large common room for socialising.

Teaching informed and delivered by research-active staff.

Consistently excellent student satisfaction ratings.

Studies of graduate employability stress the career value of language degrees that combine specialist academic knowledge with linguistic expertise. Employers in UK and international business, the press and media, IT and technology, marketing and public relations, public administration, international development, law, finance, teaching and lecturing, interpreting, translating and others value foreign language ability, not just as a specialist skill, but as a personal quality that develops relationship-building, and teamwork.

Recent employers of King’s German graduates include Goldman Sachs, Astra Zeneca, the National Assembly of Wales, CNN, the American University in London, and the University of Oxford.
Studies of graduate employability stress the career value of language degrees. Employers in UK and international business, the press and media, IT and technology, marketing and public relations, public administration, international development, law, finance, teaching and lecturing, interpreting, translating and others value foreign language ability, not just as a specialist skill, but as a personal quality that develops relationship-building, teamwork, and the capacity to move easily in international contexts. Studying German, you will also gain fluency in a language and knowledge of a country and its culture that is increasingly in demand, given Germany’s central role in European economic and political development.

Please note that A-level General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives are not accepted by King's as one of your A-levels. However, if offered the grade achieved may be taken into account when considering whether or not to accept a candidate who has just fallen short of the conditions of their offer.

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Subjects

  • German Speaking
  • Translation
  • Politics
  • German Literature
  • Composition
  • Cinema
  • Music
  • Musical
  • Core Language
  • German

Course programme

1st Year

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 Music.

Required Modules

German

Ab initio

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

  • Introductory German (30 credits)
  • Texts & Contexts for ab initio (30 credits)
Non-native German pathway

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)
Native German pathway

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

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

Music

In your first year, there are no required modules.

Optional Modules

German

Ab initio and non-native German pathway

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

Native German pathway

You are required to take one 15 credit optional module from a range of options that may typically include:

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

Music

You are also required to take four optional modules from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

  • Musical Performance 1 (15 credits)
  • Music Theory 1 (15 credits)
  • Music Theory 2 (15 credits)
  • Issues & Topics in Music I–IV (15 credits each)
  • Aural Skills (15 credits)

2nd Year

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

Required Modules

German

You are required to take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range which 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)
Ab initio

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

  • Intermediate German (30 credits)
Non-native German pathway

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

  • German Core Language II (30 credits)
Native German pathway

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

  • Translation from & into German II (15 credits)

Music

In your second year, there are no required modules.

Optional Modules

German

Ab initio and non-native German pathways

If you are an ab initio or non-native German student, you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules that maytypically include:

  • The pre-modern modules listed above
  • Berlin Past & Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
  • Politics & 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 & Film (15 credits)
  • Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)
Native German pathway

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

  • The pre-modern modules listed above
  • Berlin Past & Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
  • Politics & 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 & Film (15 credits)
  • Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)

Music

You will take 60 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

  • Musical Performance 2 (15 credits)
  • Musical Analysis (15 credits)
  • Techniques of Composition (15 credits)
  • Composition Studies (minor, 15 credits, major 30 credits)
  • Love Song: The Troubadours & Their Legacy (15 credits)
  • Opera in the 20th Century (15 credits)
  • Music in British Film (15 credits)
  • Post-War Jazz (15 credits)
  • Global Popular Music (15 credits)
3rd Year

You will spend your third year abroad at one of our partner institutions, which currently include:

  • Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Universität Wien
  • Ruprecht-Karls-Universität 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 Music.

Required ModulesAb initio and non-native German pathways

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

  • German Core Language III (30 credits)
Native German pathway

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

  • Translation from & into German III (15 credits)

Music

In your fourth year, there are no required modules.

Optional Modules

German:

In addition, Ab initio and non-native German speaking students are required to take 30 credits from an optional range of modules. Native German speaking students will be required to select 45 credits from the same range of 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 & Society (15 credits)
  • Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th & 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 & Political Transformation (15 credits)
  • Death & the Afterlife in Medieval & Modern German Literature (15 credits)
  • Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)

Music:

You are required to take 60 credits of optional modules from a range that may typically include:

  • Advanced Performance Studies (admission by audition) (45 credits, subject to change)
  • Advanced Free Composition (admission by portfolio) (45 credits, subject to change)
  • Musical Performance 3 (15 credits)
  • Contemporary Musicology (15 credits)
  • Music, Gender, Sexuality (15 credits)
  • Sound Studies (15 credits)
  • Material Culture in 19th-Century Music (15 credits)
  • Music & Dance in Late-18th-Century Vienna (15 credits)
  • The Beatles (15 credits)
  • Broadway from Showboat to West Side Story (15 credits)
  • Dissertation (30 credits)

Please note: there are prerequisites for all performance and composition modules.

In addition, you may take up to 30 credits in modules offered by other departments.

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

Additional information

International tuition fee - £18,900 per year.

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