B.A. French and Philosophy (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:

• Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Metaphysics
• Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
• Introduction to Philosopy: Logic and Reasoning
• Philosophical Reading and Writing (core)
• 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:

• Justice, Violence and the State
• Continental Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
• Continental Philosophy: Subject, Identity and the Political
• Knowledge and Metaphysics: Descartes to Kant
• Metaphysics, Truth and Relativism
• Metaethics
• Philosophy of Medicine
• Greek Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle
• Wittgenstein
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy of Language
• Logic
• Philosophy of Science
• Paradoxes
• Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Aesthetics
• Political Philosophy
• Normative Ethics

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Year abroad

The French department at 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:

• Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
• Normative Ethics
• Political Philosophy
• Continental Philosophy: Subject , Identity and the Political
• Justice, Violence and the State
• Continental Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
• Knowledge and Metaphysics: Descartes to Kant
• Aesthetics
• Metaphysics, Truth and Relativism
• Metaethics
• Philosophy of Medicine
• Greek Philosophy:Plato and Aristotle
• Wittgenstein