B.A. German and French (Hons)

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:

• 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)
• Beginners' Danish: Language & Culture
• Learning German 2 (Post-GCSE German)
• Intensive Beginners German
• Learning German 3 (Post A Level)

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

• German Post 'A' Level
• Paris: Myth and Reality in the 19th century
• Paris: Myth and Reality in the 20th century
• Occupation and Resistance in the French Novel
• Description of Modern French
• Short Narrative Fiction in French
• French Detective Fiction
• French: Second Year Extended Essay
• Memory and Childhood in 20th Century French Fiction
• Modern French Theatre
• German Expressionism 1920-1925
• Danish Through the Medium of Crime Fiction

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Year abroad

The University of Kent has Erasmus agreements with a large number of universities in French and German speaking countries.

Possible modules may include:

• Year Abroad Module

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• Travels to Japan in Modern French Culture
• French: Final Year Dissertation
• Images of Monarchy in French Classical Tragedy
• Contemporary French Cinema
• Mothers and Daughters in Women's Writing
• The Reader and the Text
• Sociolinguistics of French
• Danish Through the Medium of Crime Fiction
• Life After Modernism? An Introduction to Postmodernist Literature in Ge
• Medien und Öffentlichkeit
• Order and Madness: Classical German Literature
• German Extended Essay
• German Dissertation