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

at King's College London

Structure
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:

• Cultural Transformations: An Introduction to Modern Languages (15 credits)
• French pathway
• French Core Language (First Year) (30 credits)
• Critical Reading and its Pleasures: Approaching French Literature and Film (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)
• Spanish pathway
• Spanish Language I (30 credits)
• Global Iberias: Perspectives - An Introduction to the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Worlds (15 credits)
• Global Iberias: Themes - Rethinking the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Worlds (15 credits)

Subject requirements
Required subjects:
At least one of French, German, Spanish or Portuguese
A-Levels

Required grades:
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.

Must include grade A in at least one of French, German, Spanish or Portuguese, dependent on the pathway chosen.

Single language pathways:

• French with a Year Abroad: French
• Spanish with a Year Abroad: Spanish
• German with a Year Abroad: German

Full time tuition fees UK:
The UK tuition fee for the 2022-2023 academic year is currently £9,250 per year. This is based on the UK Government’s cap.

Full time tuition fees International:
The International tuition fee for the 2022-2023 academic year is £21,840 per year.

Please note that the International tuition fee is subject to annual increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King’s terms and conditions.

All International applicants to Undergraduate programmes are required to pay a deposit of £2,000 against their first year’s tuition fee. This deposit is payable when you firmly accept an unconditional offer to study with us, and will be offset against your tuition fees when you join King’s.

If you choose the study abroad option with one of King’s partner universities, you will not be charged tuition fees by the host university (although some partners do charge a small administration fee for applying). King’s will continue to invoice for a proportion of King's tuition fees.

You should also budget to pay for the associated subsistence costs, such as travel, visas, accommodation and food as well as any vaccination/immunisations required by the country to which you are travelling. 

Please see the Study Abroad web pages for details of the relevant partner universities and detailed information on the fees that apply under the Course Essentials tab.

By encouraging critical reflection on both the past and the present contexts of the French, German, Portuguese or Spanish -speaking worlds, the programme broadens students’ knowledge base and strengthens their interdisciplinary profile, challenging narrow, monocultural assumptions, thus preparing students for the challenges of multicultural and global realities.

Studies of graduate employability repeatedly stress the career value of language degrees, which provide graduates with international experience and enhancing cultural awareness, helping them to develop flexibility, resilience and resourcefulness. Employers 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. Typical destinations of KCL Modern Languages graduates include international business, the press and media, IT and technology, marketing and public relations, public administration, international development, law, finance, teaching and lecturing, interpreting and translating.