German & Philosophy with a year abroad

Courses are 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 Philosophy.

German

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)

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)

Additionally, you are required to take one 15 credit 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 and Society (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

Philosophy

In your first year, you are required to take one 15-credit module from each of the following three groups:

• Greek Philosophy I (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Ethics I (15 credits)
• Political Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Elementary Logic (15 credits)
• Metaphysics I (15 credits)
• Epistemology I (15 credits)
• Methodology (15 credits)

You will then choose a further 15 credit module from any of the groups listed above.

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

German

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

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

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

• German Core Language II (30 credits)

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

• Translation from & into German II (15 credits)

Philosophy

In your second year, you are required to take 45 credits from at least two of the following groups, each of which may typically include the following modules:

• Greek Philosophy II: Plato (15 credits)
• Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy II: Locke & Berkeley (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy II: Spinoza & Leibniz (15 credits)

• Ethics II: History of Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)
• Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)
• Political Philosophy II: Theories of Freedom OR Justice (15 credits) (running in alternate years)
• Political Philosophy II: History of Political Philosophy (15 credits)

• Epistemology II (15 credits)
• Metaphysics II (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Logic & Language (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Mind (15 credits)
• Intermediate Logic (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Physics I: Philosophy of Space & Time (15 credits)

German

If you are an ab initio student, in your second year you are required to take two optional 15 credit modules, where at least one must contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range which may typically include:

• Gender & Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)
• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 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 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 and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

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
• 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 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 and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits

Plus a further 30 credits chosen from optional modules which may typically include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• History into Literature (15 credits)
• 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)

Philosophy

In addition you are required to take 15 credits from any of the optional modules in the groups listed above, or choose from a further range of 15 credit options which may typically include:

• Hellenistic Philosophy (15 credits)
• Indian Philosophy: The Orthodox Schools (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Mathematics (15 credits)
• Medieval Philosophy (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology (15 credits)
• First-Order Logic (15 credits)
• Aesthetics (15 credits)
• Gender & Philosophy (15 credits)
• Topics in Modern Philosophy (15 credits)
• Topics in Political Philosophy (15 credits)
• Topics in Philosophy of Language (15 credits)
• Utilitarianism (15 credits)
• Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (15 credits)
• Indian Philosophy: The Heterodox Schools (15 credits)

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-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.

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

German

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

• German Core Language III (30 credits)

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

• Translation from & into German III (15 credits)

Philosophy

There are no required modules in your fourth year.

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student you are required to take 30 credits from a 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)
• 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 and Now (15 credits)

If you are a native German speaker 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)
• 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 and Now (15 credits)

Philosophy

You are required to take 45 credits from a range of modules that may typically include:

• Dissertation (30 credits)
• Jurisprudence (30 credits)
• Law & Social Theory (30 credits)
• Plato's myths: the soul, desire and the beyond (30 credits)
• Hellenistic Philosophy (15 credits)
• Indian Philosophy: The Orthodox Schools (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Mathematics (15 credits)
• Medieval Philosophy (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology (15 credits)
• First-Order Logic (15 credits)
• Aesthetics (15 credits)
• Gender & Philosophy (15 credits)
• Topics in Modern Philosophy (15 credits)
• Topics in Political Philosophy (15 credits)
• Topics in Philosophy of Language (15 credits)
• Utilitarianism (15 credits)

In addition your remaining 15 credits may be from this list or any module from the second year modules.

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.