Management and Modern Languages with a Year Abroad

At King’s we offer you a lively and intellectually stimulating home in the heart of London where you will be taught by leading experts. Our Management and Modern Languages BA includes an exceptionally wide range of modules in both subject areas, while maintaining an even balance between the two sides of your degree.

In Modern Languages, you will attain a high level of proficiency in speaking, writing and reading the language of your degree, whilst developing your knowledge and critical understanding of its culture and society. Students can take this course either with an A-level (or equivalent) in the degree language, or as a beginner, following a specially-designed language course (known as ‘ab initio’ – ‘from the start’), and our cultural curriculum is innovative and diverse, covering a range of modules in literature, from the medieval period to the contemporary, and cultural studies, film studies, politics and history. You will spend the third year of your four-year degree studying, teaching or working in a French-, German-, Portuguese- or Spanish-speaking country, putting your language learning into practice.

At the same time, you will acquire knowledge and skills in the broad discipline of management that are key to so many graduate careers. Choose from Management modules including economics, organisational behaviour, accounting, marketing, and business strategy. With strong links to the business world surrounding our central London campus, our students have excellent networking opportunities and a wealth of entrepreneurial, business and economic societies to engage with and enhance their studies.

For more about the King’s Business School and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, follow the departmental contact links.

Key benefits

• In Management, we use a broad approach to provide a foundation of core modules in the principal disciplines and give you the opportunity to specialise in areas of particular interest. Research-led curriculum encourages critical analysis and debate on a wide range of contemporary management issues.

• Students from over 50 countries create an international environment for learning, bringing a diverse range of perspectives to the course.

• Graduates are highly employable, entering careers that include banking, consultancy, accountancy, marketing, advertising and management.

• Broad range of specialist modules in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, from medieval to contemporary literature as well as politics, history, cultural studies, and film. You can study French, German, Spanish or Portuguese language either post A-level (or equivalent) or with no previous knowledge of the language (ab initio).

• Central London location offers students closer links to the business world in the heart of London and offers access to a variety of cinemas, galleries, theatres, specialist libraries and resources, including the Goethe-Institut and Austrian Cultural Forum, the Institut français, Canning House, Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture, and the Instituto Cervantes, as well as events organised by embassies and other related cultural institutions.

• The Year abroad in a French-, German-, Portuguese- or Spanish-speaking country offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in culture and society and attain language fluency. We have exchanges with a wide variety of partner universities across Europe, in Martinique and Quebec, and in Middle and South American countries such as Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.

• Personal attention is given to each student, creating an intellectually stimulating and warm environment that is reflected in consistently excellent student satisfaction ratings.

Please see our online prospectus for further details on this programme: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/management-and-modern-languages-with-a-year-abroad-ba