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German & Portuguese & Brazilian Studies with a year abroad

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BA

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Full Time

| UCAS code: RR25
Currently, students study the following core modules. If there are options available the current choices are also shown. King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue 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 plus two options in Portuguese. 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 (compulsory)
AND
German Language Core Module I (non-native speakers only)
OR
Translation from and into German I (native speakers only)

Portuguese
 
Core Language


YEAR 1 OPTIONS
German
Milestones of German History
One Hundred Years on German Cinema
Medieval Germany: Language, Literature and Society
German Politics and Society

Portuguese
Literature, Love and Society in Portugal
Portuguese Identities
Faces of Brazil: Identity and Representation in Fiction and Film
Race Development and Culture in Modern Brazil
Slavery Society and Nation in Brazilian Literature
Lisbon Stories: Culture and Society on Film
Three Revolutions: the Making of Contemporary Portugal


YEAR 2

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



YEAR 2 CORE

German

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

Portuguese

Core Language



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 
 
Portuguese
Portuguese Literature Before and After the Revolution
Leaders, Legends and Chivalry in Medieval Portugal 
Portuguese Short Fiction in the Twentieth Century
History of the Iberian World (1492-1822)
Religion and Society in Southern Europe (1500-1800)
Introduction to Brazilian Popular Music Studies
Brazilian Poetry And Song I: Modernism Samba and the Estado Novo 1915-1945
Liberal Empire: Nineteenth Century Portugal
Portugal: Modernity, Traditionalism & National Identity
History of Brazil, 1889 to the Present



YEAR 3

This is normally spent in a German- or Portuguese-speaking country, or may be split between the two.



YEAR 4

Students should take the core modules outlined plus two options in Portuguese to a total of 30 credits and two to three options in German.



YEAR 4 CORE

German

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

Portuguese

Core Language



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.)

Portuguese
Translation into English
Portuguese Modernism and Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese Romanticism 
Voicing Love and Dissent in the Sixteenth Century: Bernardim Ribeiro and Sá de Miranda
Luís de Camões 
Brazilian Poetry and Song II: 1958 to the Present
Love Dictatorship & Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Greater Portugal: Colonial Culture/ Postcolonial Perspectives

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