German & History with a year abroad

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BA

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Full Time

| UCAS code: RV21
Historical learning and critical thinking with a focus on an advanced study of German language and society. Choose modules from European medieval history to modern British politics. The degree programme is taught in the heart of London and covers historical skills, sources and thematic history.

KEY BENEFITS
German
  • Highest-rated department in German within London and nationally on the strength of its world-leading and internationally excellent research.
  • Teaching informed and delivered by staff who carry out that research.
  • Exceptionally wide range of modules covering literature, language, film, and history.
  • Central location offers students access to a variety of libraries and resources, including the Goethe-Insitut and the Austrian Cultural Forum.
  • Opportunity to study in a German-speaking country offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in culture and society and achieve language fluency.
History
  • One of the best history departments in the world, ranked 2nd in the UK by The Sunday Times newspaper (2011).
  • Excellent graduate prospects, amongst the top five in the country (Times Good University Guide, 2010).
  • Graduates get top jobs in a wide range of sectors, including law, business, government, heritage, finance and teaching.
  • A wider range of periods and places than most history degrees, from medieval Europe to modern India.
  • Students are taught in a friendly and supportive environment by expert historians.
  • The central London location offers students easy access to world-class museums, collections and libraries.

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UCAS code
RV21
Programme type
Joint honours
Duration
Four years
Location
Strand Campus
Year of entry 2014
Offered by
School of Arts and Humanities
Department of German
Department of History
Closing date
Please refer to the UCAS website for application deadline dates, or contact the relevant Admissions Office for further advice
Fees & funding
For information on fees and funding for undergraduate programmes at King's go to http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ug/funding/
CONTACTS
Address
Department of German
King's College London
Strand Campus
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Email
Tel
020 7848 2350/2374
Fax
020 7848 7200


PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION
This four year programme is designed to develop critical thinking and independence of thought about the past as well as focusing on an advanced study of German language and society. King's has a world-class reputation for the study of History, and students choose from an unrivalled range of options, from medieval Europe to modern India. Moreover students on this programme can choose from an exceptionally wide range of modules in the Department of German covering literature of all periods, German film, German history, German philosophical thought, and German political and social theory.

Further information about the Department of German and the Department of History.


ABOUT THE Department of German

CAREERS
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 have been found repeatedly to value foreign language competence, not just as a specialist skill, but as a personal quality that fosters relationship-building, 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, and German and Austrian membership of the EU. 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.

TEACHING STYLE
In 2011-12, the Department launched a new curriculum that reflects our commitment to innovative and research-led teaching. Staff across the Department contribute introductory and specialist modules that draw from their own research in German literature, culture and history. Modules are taught through a combination of lectures, small seminars or tutorials, and one-to-one supervision. This brings you into close contact with tutors, in a department that is regularly ranked among the top three research departments in the UK. Language classes involve in-depth work with different kinds of media, literary and academic texts. Teaching is in German and English, according to the subject area. Our teaching style is interactive; students participate informally in small group discussions in seminars or online discussion fora, and formally through seminar presentations and oral assessments.

STRUCTURE OF PROGRAMMES & ASSESSMENT
Following Year 1 foundation modules in culture, history and politics, more specialised modules in Years 2 and 4 reflect the rich research expertise of Department staff. The King’s German Department ranked joint second in the country in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and the commitment of our staff to research excellence is matched by our enthusiasm for teaching. Our rigorous three-year language programme is tailored both to your own level of language competence, and to the internationally recognised Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Non-native speakers take core language modules covering the key skills of reading, writing, listening, spoken interaction and production, and translation. Native speakers currently take a separate module in Translation from and into German. Assessment is in a variety of forms including précis and oral presentation, work placement portfolios, longer academic essays in both English and German, and oral and written exams

LOCATION
Located in the heart of London, the department can draw on unparalleled print, audio-visual and online resources, including the King’s Maughan Library and Senate House Library, the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, the British Film Institute and the British Library. All are within easy walking distance of the Strand Building. The Goethe-Institut and Austrian Cultural Forum also have extensive media and library holdings, and run lively programmes of films, readings, seminars and exhibitions which complement the Department’s internal film screenings, open seminars, exhibitions, and annual departmental play. All teaching takes place at the Strand Campus.

SPECIAL NOTES
The third year of this programme is spent in Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland, normally as a student at university or as a teaching assistant in a school. We have exchange links with universities in Munich, Frankfurt (Main), Heidelberg, Berlin and Vienna (under the European Union Socrates-Erasmus scheme).


ABOUT THE Department of History

CAREERS

The career prospects for King's history graduates are excellent, and our location in the heart of London provides outstanding access to leading employers in many fields. Students develop skills which give them a critical edge in the job market, in particular the ability to process information quickly, think independently and present their ideas in pressure situations. Former King's history students work for national newspapers, in top law firms, in the civil service, in state and private schools, in heritage, banking and business sectors and in many different universities across the globe. Noted King's history graduates include Ronan Bennett (novelist and screenwriter), Janice Hadlow (Controller of BBC Two) and Georgina Henry (Executive comment editor of the Guardian newspaper).

Recent graduates have found employment as…

• Academic Historian
• Dealers’ Assistant, Bonhams
• Research Analyst, Ministry of Defence
• Junior Accounts Executive, Chelgate
• Project Assistant, Heron Evidence Development
• Trusts & Statutory Fundraiser, Crisis UK
• Support Worker, Sense
• Departmental Runner, BBC


TEACHING STYLE
You will have regular and varied contact with staff and other students in lectures, seminars and supervisions. Most teaching takes place in seminars, which usually have between 10 and 20 participants and are a forum for discussion in which students have the opportunity to hone their discussion and presentation skills. Our first-year introductory module is taught in small supervision groups of 5 or 6 students, allowing for close discussion of historical texts and sources, and detailed feedback on your written work. If you choose to write a independent piece of historical research in your final year, which can be on any topic, this will also be taught on a one-to-one basis with a tutor. From the beginning of the degree, you will analyse primary sources as well as the writings of historians. We ensure undergraduate students are exposed to many different approaches to history, and encourage you to adopt a comparative approach, looking at the connections and contrasts between different periods and places throughout the degree. The discipline of research and writing is essential to the development of the skills of the historian. At King's, therefore, we require an extensive amount of written work and independent study.

STRUCTURE OF PROGRAMMES & ASSESSMENT
The King’s History degree lasts three years and is assessed through a combination of essays, examinations, presentations and dissertations. Students choose from a wide range of modules, which cover historical topics from Medieval times (c400AD onwards) through to the present day. Optional modules in Ancient History are also available through the Department of Classics. In the first year, students choose modules that span Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History as well as taking ‘Historical Skills, Sources & Approaches’, which is taught in small groups.

In the second and third years, students select more focused options, choosing from around 30 topics, which have recently included:

• Alexander the Great
• British Imperial Policy & Decolonisation, 1938-1964
• Caribbean Intellectual History, c1800 to the present
• The French Civil War, 1934-1970
• The History of Australia since 1788
• History of Political Ideas
• The Norman Conquest
• The Northern Ireland Troubles
• The Origins of Reformation in England
• Political Bonds in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
• The Soviet Union and Russia, 1945-2000
• Women and Gender in Early Modern England
• Romans & Barbarians: The Transformation of the Roman West
• Themes in the study of Contemporary Africa.

All our modules are designed by the lecturers in the department and reflect their own scholarly research specialisms.

In the final year, students have the opportunity to undertake a research dissertation on a topic of their choice, working under the one-to-one supervision of a member of staff who is a specialist in the field. As King’s is part of the University of London, second-and final-year students have the option of taking history courses at other institutions (such as UCL, and Royal Holloway), which means our students have an unrivalled choice of modules to choose from. The King’s History programme is unique in its pair of compulsory second-year ‘History and Memory’ modules, where students consider the role of history in the present day, from its social and public uses to the conflicts and controversies it can generate and do so by using London as a real, living source. Field trip teaching on these modules is delivered through downloadable podcasts. Examples of podcasts can be downloaded from our website http://www.kcl.ac.uk/history/podcasts


LOCATION
The Department of History at King’s is centrally located on our Strand campus, and is within walking distance of the capital’s famous landmarks, such as the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden, the River Thames and the South Bank. London offers unparalleled historical resources, including the British Museum, British Library, Imperial War Museum and National Gallery.

SPECIAL NOTES
All students are offered the opportunity to study abroad as part of their History degree at King's and recent popular destinations include The University of North Carolina Chapel, The University of Auckland and The University of Hong Kong.

 

Currently, students study the following core modules. If there are options available the current choices are also shown. We review our optional modules on a regular basis, in order to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the Department(s) for further advice.

YEAR 1

You should take the core modules outlined below, plus one History optional module. Native German speakers also choose one optional German module. (This is because their German language module is worth 15 credits, rather than the 30-credit core language module taken by non-native speakers.)



YEAR 1 CORE

German

Texts and Contexts: an introduction to German literature and culture
AND
German Language Core Module I (non-native speakers only)
OR
Translation from and into German I (native speakers only)

History

Historical Skills, Sources and Approaches



YEAR 1 OPTIONS
German
  • Milestones of German History
  • One Hundred Years on German Cinema
  • Medieval Germany: Language, Literature & Society
  • German Politics and Society
History
Students choose one History module from the following list:
  • The Making of Britain 400-1400
  • Medieval Europe 400-1500
  • Early Modern Britain 1500-1750
  • Power, Belief and Culture in Europe 1500-1800
  • The Worlds of the British Empire, c1730-1960
  • Europe from 1793 to 1991
  • Politics and Society in Britain, 1780-1945
First year History module descriptions can be found here:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/level4/2012-13.aspx

YEAR 2

You take the core module outlined below plus and two or three options in German (depending on whether you are a non-native or native German speaker) and two History optional modules.



YEAR 2 CORE

German

German Core Language Module II (non-native speakers)
OR
Translation from and into German II (native speakers)



YEAR 2 OPTIONS

German

  • The German Reformation
  • Women in the early modern period: representations and responses
  • German Realist fiction in the nineteenth century
  • History into literature
  • Modernism and the Avant-garde
  • A year in the life of German-language film
  • Politics and popular culture in Germany after 1870
  • Germany since 1945: politics, society, economics
  • 18th-century German thought: the education of humanity

History
Typical second year optional modules:

  • British Economic History from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
  • Church, State and Nation in Britain, 1750-1939
  • Crime and the Law 1500-1750
  • Europe in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
  • European Jewry & the Transition to Modernity, 1650 - 1850
  • Faith, Nation and Empire in Modern East-Central Europe (1800-present)
  • From Crowd to Court: Cultures of Politics in Later Hanoverian Britain
  • The French Civil War, 1934-1970
  • Friends, Political Bonds in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy (1300-1550)
  • Greek History down to 322BC
  • History and Memory
  • The History of Australia since 1788
  • History of Political Ideas
  • History of the Iberian World, 1492-1822
  • History of the Roman Empire
  • The Nobility & Gentry of Medieval England, 1150-1500
  • The Northern Ireland Troubles
  • Religion & Society in Southern Europe
  • Roman History down to 31BC
  • The Soviet Union and Russia, 1945-2000
  • Themes in Early Modern Cultural History
  • Theories of Modern History

Second year students can also choose to take a module at another College of the University of London. A full list of intercollegiate History modules can be found here: http://www.history.ac.uk/syllabus/intercollegiate-courses

Second year History module descriptions can be found on our website:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/level5/index.aspx

YEAR 3

This is spent in Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland, either as a student at one of our Erasmus partner institutions, as a language teaching assistant, or on an approved work placement. We have links with universities in Munich, Frankfurt (Main), Berlin and Vienna under the European Erasmus-Socrates scheme.



YEAR 4

You take the core module outlined plus up to three German optional modules (depending on whether you are native or non-native speaker) and two History optional modules.



YEAR 4 CORE

German

German Language Core Module III (non-native speakers)
OR
Translation from and into German III (native speakers)



YEAR 4 OPTIONS

German

  • Translation from and into German III
  • Structure and usage of contemporary German
  • The Nibelungenlied: from the twelfth to the twentieth century
  • Religion, sex and politics: German literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Goethe's Faust
  • Goethe: from Sturm und Drang to Classicism
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Kafka
  • Aspects of post-1945 German fiction
  • The Third Reich in the post-war German novel
  • Modern German poetry
  • Brechtian cinema and political modernism
  • Power and everyday life in the GDR
  • German reunification: culture and politics
  • Politics and everyday life in twentieth-century Germany
  • Government politics and public policy in Germany
  • Constructing Europe — identities and a European demos
  • Extended essay (This option is worth 30 credits, and therefore counts as a double module.)

History:
Students can choose to take a Group III module which involves studying primary source materials or a Thematic Special Subject, in which students think comparatively and theoretically about the different periods and places they have studied in their degree so far.

Typical Group III modules:

  • Alexander the Great
  • Augustus: Power and Propaganda
  • Australia in the Second World War: Strategy, Politics and Diplomacy
  • Britain's Thatcher
  • British Imperial Policy and Decolonisation, 1938-1964
  • Caribbean Intellectual History since 1800
  • Carolingian Europe, c.750-900
  • The Making of a Colonial Regime: Eastern India, 1780-1820
  • The Norman Conquest of Britain
  • The Origins of Reformation in England
  • Reform & Rebellion in England, 1215-1267
  • Romans & Barbarians: The Transformation of the Roman West 350-700
  • Women & Gender in Early Modern England
  • Any intercollegiate Group III (please see http://www.history.ac.uk/syllabus/intercollegiate-courses)
Typical Thematic Special Subject modules:
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Economic Crises
  • Intimacies
  • Nations
  • Ritual
Final year History module descriptions can be found on our website:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/level6/index.aspx

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Australia
Tertiary Entrance Ranking
97+ Tertiary Entrance Ranking, or an OP of band 2 for Queensland with high marks in German and History
Austria
Reifezeugnis (Matura)
Reifezeugnis with 1 including 1 in German and History
Belgium
Certificat D
Certificat D’Enseignement Secondaire Superieur/Diploma van Secundair Onderwijs with 9 or 19 including 8 or 18 in German and History
Brazil
Brazil
High School Leaving Certificate (Certificado de Ensino Médio) with 8 OR B OR Muito Bom PLUS at least one year of Bacharel/Licenciado at a Brazilian University with a GPA of at least 8.0 OR the King’s College London International Foundation Programme OR 3 A-levels with grades of A*AA. Including German and History
Bulgaria
School Leaving Certificate
Diploma za Sredno Obrazovanie with the majority of subject marks of 5.5 including 5.5 in German and History
Canada
Secondary School Certificate/Diploma
High School Certificate/Diploma with 90% OR Ontario University Preparatory Course with 90% at five grade 12 4U subjects. The sixth subject may be at 4U or 4U/C level. OR the Quebec CEGEP Cote R with an overall R score of 35. (All require high marks in German and History.)
Chile
Chile
Licencia de Educación Media with 6 PLUS at least one year of the Licenciatura at a Chilean university with a mark of 5 OR the Kings College London International Foundation Programme OR 3 A-levels with grades of A*AA. Including German and History
China
Gao Kao (University Entrance Examination)
University Entrance Examination with at least a foundation/Access year or one year of undergraduate study at a Chinese university with at least 80% (Requires high marks in German and History)
Cyprus
Apolytirion
Apolytirion (School Leaving Certificate) with 18 with high marks in German and History, plus at least an additional foundation/Access year
Czech Republic
Maturita
Maturita with 1 including 1 in German and History
Denmark
Studentereksamen or Hjere Forberedelseseksamen
Studentereksamen or Højere Forberedelseseksamen with 12 including 11 in German and History
Estonia
Gmnaasiumi lputunnistus (Secondary School Leaving Certificate)
Gümnaasiumi lõputunnistus with majority marks of 5, (including grade 5 in German and History) and an attestation of success in the state entry examinations (Riigieksamitunnistus)
Finland
Ylioppilastutkinto/Studentexamen (National Matriculation)
Ylioppilastutkinto with 7 including 7 in German and History
France
Baccalaureat (including the option internationale baccalaureat)
The Baccalaureat with 15 overall and 14 in German and History
Germany
Abitur
Abitur with 1.2 overall including 1.3 in German and History
Ghana
School Leaving Certificate
the West African Senior School Certificate (WASSC/WASSCE) PLUS 3 international Cambridge-board A levels at A*AA including German and History
Greece
Apolytirion
Apolytirion with 19 including 19 in German and History
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE)
Three elective subjects at minimum Levels 5*, 5, 5 including History, plus Level 4 in each of the four core subjects. Applicants should demonstrate fluency in German.
Hungary
Erettsegi
Erettsegi with 5 including 5 in German and History
India
School Leaving Certificate
School Leaving Certificate with 85% overall OR School Leaving Certificate with 75% with at least a foundation/Access year or year of undergraduate study at an Indian university. (All require high marks in German and History)
Iran
School Leaving Certificate
Pre-University Certificate (Peeshdaneshgahe) OR the National Entrance Exam (Kunkar) with 16 OR 3 Cambridge International A levels at A*AA (All require high maks in German and History)
Ireland
Irish Leaving Certificate (Higher level unless otherwise stated)
A1 A1 A1 A2 A2 B1 with grade A in German and History 
Italy
Esame di Stato
Esame di Stato with 95 with high marks in German and History
Japan
School Leaving Certificate
Upper Secondary School Leaving Certificate (Kotogakko Sotsugyo Shomeisho) PLUS 3 Cambridge Board International A-levels at AAA OR an Associate degree or Diploma from a Junior College (Jun-Gakushi) with a GPA of 3.3 or B+ or 4 OR a foundation year. Including high marks in German and History
Latvia
Atestats par visparejo videjo izglitibu (Certificate of General Secondary Education)
Atestats par visparejo videjo izglitibu with 9.5 with high marks in German and History, plus at least a foundation/Access year or one year of undergraduate study at a Latvian university
Lithuania
Brandos Atestatas (Maturity Certificate)
Brandos Atestatas with 95 with high marks in German and History, plus at least a foundation/Access year or one year of undergraduate study at a Lithuanian university
Luxembourg
Diplome de Fin D
Diplome de Fin D’Etudes Secondaires with Tres Bien and a mark of 55 or above including Tres Bien in German and History
Malta
Matriculation Certificate - Advanced level
Matriculation Certificate with A*AA including A in German and History
Mexico
Mexico
The Bachillerato with a mark of 8 PLUS the King’s College London International Foundation Programme OR at least one year of the Licenciado study with an overall average mark of at least 8/10 OR A-levels with grades of A*AA. Including German and History
Moldova
School Leaving Certificate
Diploma de Bacalaureat with 9.5 including 9 in German and History
Netherlands
Diploma Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs (VWO)
VWO with 8.5 including 8 in German and History
New Zealand
National Certificate of Educational Achievement Level 3 (NCEA)
the NCEA level 3 with E in the majority of standards/modules in four subjects,including Excellent in German and History
Nigeria
School Leaving Certificate
The Senior School Certificate (SSC/SSCE) OR the West African Senior School Certificate (WASSC/WASSCE) PLUS 3 Cambridge International A levels at A*AA including A in German and History
Norway
Vitnemal-videregaende opplaering (Upper Secondary Leaving Certificate)
Vitnemal-videregaende opplaering grade 5.5 including grade 5 in German and History
Pakistan
High School Certificate (HSSC)
High School Certificate with A1 with high marks in German and History, plus at least a foundation/Access year or one year of undergraduate study at a Pakistani university
Poland
Matura
Matura with 90% iin one extended level subject plus 85% in all other extended level subjects with high marks in German and History
Portugal
Diploma de Ensino Secundário
Diploma de Ensino Secundário with 18 with high marks in German and History
Romania
School Leaving Certificate
Diploma de Bacalaureat with 9.5 including 9 in German and History
Russia
Attest o (Polnom) Srednem Obrazovanii (Certificate of Secondary Education)
Attest o (Polnom) Srednem Obshchem Obrazovanii with an average of 4.5 including 5 in German and History, plus at least a foundation/Access year or one year of undergraduate study at a Russian university
Saudi Arabia
School Leaving Certificate
College of Technology Diploma OR Higher Technical Institute Diploma OR Junior Health College Diploma OR Undergraduate Diploma with 85% OR 3 Cambridge International A levels at A*AA (All require high marks in German and History)
Singapore
Singapore A Level
AAA in three content-based H2 subjects (including Grade A in both History and German). Knowledge and Inquiry is not considered as part of the offer
Slovakia
Vysvedcenie Maturitnej Skuska/Maturita
Vysvedcenie Maturitnej Skuske/Maturita with 1 including 1 in German and History
Slovenia
Maturitetno Spricevalo (Secondary School Leaving Certificate)
Maturitetno Spricevalo with 5 including 5 in German and History
South Africa
South African Senior Certificate/National Senior Certificate with Matriculation endorsement
The National Senior Certificate with Matriculation endorsement with AABBB including German
Spain
Titulo de Bachiller
Titulo de Bachiller with 9 overall including 9 in German and History
Sweden
Fullständigt Slutbetyg (School Leaving Certificate)
Fullstandigt Slutbeytg with MVG including MVG in German and History
Switzerland
Federal Maturity Certificate
Federal Maturity Certificate with an overall mark of 5 including 5 in German and History
Turkey
Lise Diplomasi (High School Diploma)
Lise Diplomasi with an overall mark of 4 with high marks in German and History, plus at least a foundation/Access year or one year of undergraduate study at a Turkish university
United Kingdom
A levels
A*AA 
Compulsory subjects
German and History A-level at Grade A
12 unit A level in vocational subjects
Not acceptable
General Studies and Critical Thinking - College policy
Please note that AS/A level General Studies and Critical Thinking are not accepted by King's as one of your A or AS 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
Access to HE Diploma
Access to Humanities (or similar) Diploma including study of German and History at Level 3 with 39 Level 3 credits from units awarded at Distinction, with the remaining credits at Merit. Supplementary information and achievement e.g marks for certain credits/subjects may be required depending on course content.  
Cambridge Pre-U
3 Pre-U Principal Subjects with grades of D2 D3 D3 including D3 in German and History
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma
Considered on an individual basis
Scottish Highers & Advanced Highers
AA at Advanced Highers and AAA in three further Highers including French and History 
International Baccalaureate
35 points and HL 766 including German at HL6 
European Baccalaureate
90% overall including 8.5 in German and History 
USA
Advanced Placement Tests and/or SAT/ACT (SAT/ACT acceptable only where stipulated)
Three AP subjects with 555 including German and History at grade 5. Or SAT with a total score of 1900 with at least 600 in each section or the ACT with a score of 28 plus 3 SAT-S including History with a score of 600 in each plus one AP in the relevant language with 4 or evidence of fluency

OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Aptitude testing
No test required

APPLYING TO KING'S
If you are interested in coming to King’s, you should apply through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and apply online via the UCAS website (click on 'apply'). If you are applying through a school or college, you will need to obtain a 'buzzword' from the centre you are applying through. Alternatively, you can apply as an individual, independent of a school or college. Please see the UCAS website for instructions. The UCAS institution code name for King’s is KCL, and the institution code is K60.

There are a few programmes which require direct application to King's, this will be stated above

SELECTION PROCEDURE
Most applicants are considered between November and March. Admission requirements are flexible, but evidence of study in German to an appropriate level is always required. A detailed list of the additional credentials and musical skills required for the BA German & Music can be found on the web page of the Department of Music.

Related programme student profile

French & History with a year abroad BA

The varied and dynamic course was the principle reason for choosing King’s but also the huge range of extra-curricular activities on offer and of course the prospect of living in central London played a part in my decision making.

So far All the King’s Men has given me many opportunities of performing around London’s venues, a highlight being at the King’s Diwali Charity Show at The Barbican. By joining a sports society I have met a students on other courses as well as keeping fit. After studying I hope to join to Foreign Office and progress to become an Ambassador.

The Strand Campus is a great place to meet friends for a catch up and there is always a buzz. Staying in halls means living in centre of the city and allows you to make great friends. I have found the best way around London is by bike as it is just as quick as all other forms of transport and it is free. Trafalgar Square and Covent Garden are great places to relax between studying as there is always something going on there. Casual employment at Westminster Abbey allows me to work when I want so it doesn’t getting it the way of studying.

I chose to study French and History because I didn’t want to neglect learning a language which I had been studying for nine years, and I thought my passion for cultures and languages would compliment a study of History. History has been a passion since childhood due both to fantastic teaching from enthusiastic teachers and visiting many locations of notable historical episodes.

The reason for choosing King's was especially because of the calibre of the history department. The teaching staff are of the highest quality and span such a vast range of historical periods and disciplines that there is an area of interest for everyone. The course content is very comprehensive and with professors who specialise in the subject there is so much more to gain than can be found in textbooks. The Historical Sources, Skills and Analysis course compliments the core course very well and permits the practice and bettering of skills key to becoming a better historian, something other courses couldn't offer.

Being in London when studying History means that you are only a stone's throw away from some of the most exciting places of historical interest. Textbooks write about how revered King Alfred was for his wisdom throughout the ages especially by the Victorians who added his statue to the gates of the High Courts of Justice. Walking to the library from university one can see Alfred's statue and it suddenly has far more meaning. Many key events have happened in this city and they are on our doorstep to discover.