Philosophy & 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.
 

Required modules
 

You are required to do the following modules
 

Philosophy
 

You are required to take one module from each of the following groups plus one further module from any of the groups:
 

Group A

• Greek Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Modern Philosophy I (15 credits)
   

Group B

• Ethics I (15 credits)

• Political Philosophy I (15 credits)
   

Group C

• Elementary Logic (15 credits)

• Metaphysics I (15 credits)

• Epistemology I (15 credits)

• Methodology (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)
   

Please note: It may not be possible to run the intermediate streams for German and Portuguese in any given year due to numbers of students affected.
 

Year 2

Required modules

You are required to do the following modules
 

• Modern Languages
• 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 (15credits)
 

Spanish pathway
 

• 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)

Year 3

Required 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.
 

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
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• 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
   

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)