German & Portuguese 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

The German and Portuguese degree allows for both those with previous qualifications or complete beginners in each language. Attain a high level of proficiency in the German and Portuguese languages on this joint degree in the heart of London and develop knowledge and understanding of the cultures, histories and societies of German and Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Portugal and Lusophone Africa). Our required language modules cater for all levels from beginners to native speakers.

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Start date

London
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On request

About this course

Highly-rated department with world-leading research in German literary, film, cultural, and historical studies.
Ranked amongst the top 10 UK German Departments (Guardian University Guide 2018; QS World Rankings 2016).
Teaching informed and delivered by research-active staff.
Consistently excellent student satisfaction ratings.
Exceptionally wide range of literature, language, film, and history modules.
Central location offers access to libraries and resources including the Goethe-Institut and Austrian Cultural Forum.
Year abroad in a German-speaking country offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in German-speaking culture and society and achieve language fluency.

Recent graduates have found employment in sectors including media production and journalism, human relations, finance, business development, retail and marketing, the civil service, teaching and lecturing. A considerable number have continued to further study.

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 repeatedly 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 relationshipbuilding, 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. 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.

AAB

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

  • Translation
  • Politics
  • German Literature
  • Cinema
  • German
  • Contexts
  • Core Language
  • German Core Language
  • German History
  • German Cinema

Course programme

1st Year

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 Portuguese.

Required Modules

German

Ab initio

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)
Non-native German pathway

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

  • 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 the following modules:

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

You are also 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)

Portuguese

You are required to take:

  • Core Language (30 credits)
  • Global Iberias (30 credits)
Optional Modules

German

In your first year there are no optional German modules.

Portuguese

In your first year there are no optional Portuguese modules.

2nd Year

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

Required Modules

German

Ab initio

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

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

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

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

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

  • Translation from & into German II (15 credits)

Portuguese

All students are required to take:

  • Core Language (30 credits)
Optional Modules

German

Ab-initio and non-native German pathways

If you are an ab intio or non-native German students select a further 15 credits, and native speakers select a further 30 credits from a list of optional modules list 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)
Native German pathway

If you are a native German speaker you are also 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 and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

You also select a further 30 credits from a list of optional modules list 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)

Portuguese

You will also take 30 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

  • Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
  • Brazilian Poetry & Song I: Modernism Samba and the Estado Novo 1915-1945 (15 credits)
  • Nineteenth-Century Fiction in Brazil and Portugal
  • Modernism: Outside In (15 credits)
3rd Year

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

German

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

Portuguese

  • Lisboa
  • Nova de Lisboa
  • Coimbra
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Universidade Federal da Bahia
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

You may also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or to undertake an internship/work placement in a German or Portuguese-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 Portuguese.

Required Modules

German

Ab initio and non-native German pathways

If you are an ab initio or non-native German 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)

Portuguese

In your fourth year, you are required to take the following module:

  • Core Language (30 credits)
Optional Modules

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional German modules, and native speaking students are required to take 45 credits from the same range of optioonal 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 (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)

Portuguese

You will take 30 credits from a range of optional 15-credit modules, which may typically include:

  • Composition in Portuguese (15 credits)
  • Brazilian Poetry and Song II: 1958 to the Present (15 credits)
  • Imperial Visions in Iberian Literature (15 credits)
  • Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa and the Americas (15 credits)
  • Love, Dictatorship & Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction (15 credits)
  • Voicing Love and Dissent in the Sixteenth Century (15 credits)
  • Dissertation (15 credits)

Additional information

International tuition fee - £18,900 per year.

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