Modern Greek Studies & Portuguese & Brazilian Studies with a year abroad

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.

You take the core modules outlined plus 30 credits of optional modules from the list below.

• Modern Greek Language
• Portuguese Language

Modern Greek

• The Emergence & Development of Modern Greece
• Reading modern Poetry Comparatively (Greek/English)
• From Late Antiquity to Byzantium
• Ours once more: perceptions of the past in the Greek world

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 
• Three Revolutions: the Making of Contemporary Portugal

You take the modules outlined plus two optional modules in Portuguese and two optional modules in Modern Greek.

• Modern Greek Language
• Portuguese Language

Modern Greek

• Modern Greek Language
• The novels of Nikos Kazantzakis
• Modernity and the nation in Greek fiction since 1922
• Greek society and politics, 1922-1950
• Language varieties and sociolinguistics
• Byzantine saints
• History of the Byzantine Empire I (641-867): From Survival to Revival
• History of the Byzantine Empire II (867-1055): The Apogee
• History of the Byzantine empire III (1055-1261): Challenge and renewal
• History of the Byzantine empire IV (1261-1453): Fragmentation and Fall

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

The year will normally be spent studying for equal periods at a university in Greece/Cyprus and Portugal/Brazil.

Students should take the modules outlined plus two optional modules in Portuguese and two optional modules in Modern Greek studies.

• Modern Greek Language
• Portuguese Language

Modern Greek

• Modern Greek Language
• Dissertation
• War in Greek poetry 1897-1981
• Modernity and tradition in Greece (19th-20th centuries)
• Text and discourse analysis
• Constantine and his Historians
• Describing Constantinople
• Medicine and society in the ancient world
• Medicine and society in the medieval world

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