English & Modern Languages (French, German, Portuguese or Spanish) with a year abroad BA

at King's College London

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

This is a four-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 1

Required modules

You are required to take the following modules:

English:
 

• Introducing Literary Theories (15 credits)

• Reading Poetry (15 credits)

MODERN LANGUAGES
 

• Cultural Transformations: An Introduction to Modern Languages (15 credits)

French pathway

Post-A Level French:
 

• French Core Language (First Year) (30 credits)

• Critical Reading and its Pleasures: Approaching French Literature and Film (15 credits)

Ab initio French

ONE of the following language modules, depending on linguistic competence in French as assessed by the Department upon arrival:
 

• Introductory French [ab initio beginner’s stream] (30 credits) OR · Intermediate French [ab initio intermediate stream] (30 credits)

• Critical Reading and its Pleasures: Approaching French Literature and Film for ab initio (15 credits)

German pathway

Non-native German speakers
 

• German Language and Culture I (30 credits)

• Texts and Contexts (15 credits)

Native German speakers
 

• Translation from and into German I (15 credits)

• Texts and Contexts (15 credits)

Ab initio German students ·
 

• Texts and Contexts for ab initio (15 credits)

PLUS ONE of the following language modules, depending on linguistic competence in Portuguese assessed at point of entry by the department:
 

• Introductory German (30 credits)

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

Portuguese pathway
 

• Global Iberias: Perspectives - Introduction to the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Worlds (15 credits)

PLUS ONE of the following language modules, depending on linguistic competence in Portuguese assessed at point of entry by the department:
 

• EITHER Portuguese Language 1A [post-A-level] (30 credits)

• OR Intermediate Portuguese (30 credits)

• OR Introductory Portuguese [ab initio] (30 credits)

Spanish pathway
 

• Global Iberias: Perspectives - Introduction to the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Worlds (15 credits)

PLUS ONE of the following language modules, depending on linguistic competence in Spanish assessed at point of entry by the department:
 

• EITHER Spanish Language 1 [post-A-level] (30 credits)

• OR Intermediate Spanish (30 credits)

• OR Introductory Spanish [ab initio] (30 credits)

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

This is a four-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 2

Required modules

You are required to do the following modules

French pathway

Post-A Level French
 

• Core Language (Second Year) (15 credits)

• The Practice of Translation (15 credits)

Ab initio French

ONE of the following language pathways, depending on linguistic competence in French as assessed by the Department:
 

•  Intermediate French [Ab initio beginner’s stream] (30 credits) OR

• French Stage 5 [ab initio intermediate stream] (15 credits) AND

• Language, Culture, Society (15 credits)

German pathway

Non-native German speakers
 

• German Language and Culture II (15 credits)

• Translation from and into German II (15 credits)

Native German speakers
 

• Translation from and into German II (15 credits)

Ab initio German students

ONE of the following language pathways, depending on linguistic competence in German as assessed by the Department:
 

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

• German stage 5 (15 credits) AND Language, Culture and Society (15 credits)

Portuguese pathway
 

• EITHER Portuguese Language 2 [post-A Level] (30 credits)

• OR Intermediate Portuguese [ab initio stream] (30 credits)

• OR Portuguese Stage 5 [intermediate stream] (15 credits)

• Students taking Portuguese Stage 5 also take the module Language, Culture and Society (15 credits)

Spanish pathway

Post-A Level Spanish
 

• EITHER Spanish Language 2 [post A-Level] (30 credits)

• OR Intermediate Spanish [ab initio beginner’s stream] (30 credits)

• OR Spanish Stage 5 [ab initio intermediate stream] (15 credits)

• Students taking 5AALSN05 Spanish Stage 5 also take the module Language, Culture and Society (15 credits)

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

This is a four-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 3

Required modules

You are required to do the following modules

Assessment for this year will depend on whether you choose to split the year between two countries, or spend the entire year in one. It will also depend on how you opt to spend your year: as an exchange student at a university, a language assistant teaching English, or on an approved work placement.

Partner Institutions for the French semester currently include:
 

• Université Lumière Lyon II

• Université Paris-Sorbonne

• Université Paris-Nanterre

• Aix-Marseille Université

• Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (Martinique)

• École Normale Supérieure (Paris)

• École Normale Supérieure (Lyon)

• Sciences Po (Paris)

• Sciences Po (Lyon)

• Université de Montréal

• Université Laval

• Université de Strasbourg

Partners for the German semester abroad currently include:
 

• Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität , Frankfurt am Main

• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen

• Universität Wien

• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

• Universität Mannheim

Partners for the Portuguese semester abroad currently include:
 

• Universidade de Lisboa - Portugal

• Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Portugal

• Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal

• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil

• Universidade Federal da Bahia - Brazil

• Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Partners for the Spanish semester abroad currently include:
 

• Universidad de Alicante - Spain

• Universidad de Cádiz - Spain

• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain

• Universidad de Córdoba - Spain

• Universidad del País Vasco - Spain

• Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Spain

• Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus) – Spain

• Universidad de Salamanca - Spain

• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) - Chile

• Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (TEC)

• Campus Querétaro - Mexico

• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) - Mexico

• Universidad del Pacífico – Peru

• Universidad San Francisco de Quito – Ecuador

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

This is a four-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 4

Required modules

You are required to do the following modules

MODERN LANGUAGES

French pathway
 

• French Language (15 credits)

German pathway

Non-native German speakers
 

• German Language and Culture III (15 credits)

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

Native German speakers
 

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

Portuguese pathway
 

• Portuguese Language 4 (30 credits)

Spanish pathway
 

• Spanish Language 4 (30 credits)