B.A. Comparative Literature and French with a Year Abroad (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Canterbury

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Canterbury

In Comparative Literature and French with a Year Abroad (Hons) programme, offered by the University of Kent you have the opportunity to study texts ranging from Classical Antiquity to the present day in English translation, including works by authors such as Homer, Ovid, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Joyce, Woolf and Kafka, as well as French classics such as Balzac, Flaubert, Camus and Proust.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Canterbury (Kent)
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CT2 7PE

Start date

On request

About this course

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Subjects

  • Comparative Literature
  • University
  • Translation
  • Innovation

Course programme

Course Content

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

  • The Tale
  • Learning French 2A (Post GCSE)
  • Learning French 2B (Post GCSE)
  • Intensive French for Beginners
  • Learning French 3 (Post A Level)
  • Writer and Genre in France
  • Questions of French Cinema
  • Twentieth Century France in Crisis
  • French Drama: Love, Marriage and Politics (in translation)
  • French Narratives: Love, Marriage and Politics (in translation)
  • Texts and Contexts

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

  • Learning French 4
  • Postmodernism
  • Travel Literature
  • The Modernist Idiom
  • Modernism and the European Avant-Garde
  • Jewish Writing from the Diaspora and Israel
  • The Shoah in Literature, Film and Culture
  • Romance: From Classical to Postmodern Literature
  • Science Fiction: History and Innovation
  • Second Thoughts: Women Novelists from Bronte to Jelinek
  • European Realism
  • The Epic: From Homer to Walcott
  • reatures of the Night: Vampires in Literature and Film
  • Prize Winners
Year abroad
  • The University of Kent has Erasmus agreements with several universities in France, Belgium, Canada and Switzerland.

Possible modules may include:

  • Year Abroad Module
Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

  • Learning French: Business French I
  • Postcolonial Images of Africa and South Asia
  • Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
  • Prize Winners
  • Creatures of the Night: Vampires in Literature and Film
  • The Epic: From Homer to Walcott
  • European Realism
  • SWIPE Undergraduate Conference
  • Second Thoughts: Women Novelists from Bronte to Jelinek
  • Science Fiction: History and Innovation
  • Romance: From Classical to Postmodern Literature
  • Jewish Writing from the Diaspora and Israel
  • Modernism and the European Avant-Garde
  • Travel Literature
  • Fiction and Power

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

B.A. Comparative Literature and French with a Year Abroad (Hons)

Price on request