Classical Studies & French with a year abroad

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

Classical Studies

There are no required Classics modules for this year of study.

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

• French Core Language (30 credits)
• Introduction to French Literature (30 credits)

Classical Studies

You are required to take 60 credits, which may include 30-credits of Greek or Latin language acquisition from a range of optional Classics modules which may typically include:

• Greek Language 1 (30 credits)
• Greek Language 2 (30 credits)
• Greek Language 3 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 1 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 2 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 3 (30 credits)
• Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome (30 credits)
• Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BC-AD 600) (30 credits)
• Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction (30 credits)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (30 credits)
• Working with Greek & Latin Literary Texts: An Introduction (30 credits)
• Introduction to Byzantium and Modern Greece: the Greek-speaking world from 330 AD to today (15 credits)
• Receptions of the past: The Hellenic world from antiquity to today (15 credits)

With the approval of the programme convenor, you can also choose to take 15 credits from any of the first year modules offered by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Global Institutes.

French

There are no optional modules for this year of study.

2nd Year

Classical Studies

There are no required Classical studies modules in year 2.

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

• Core Language (15 credits)
• The Practice of Translation (15 credits)

Classical Studies

You are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Greek Language 1 (30 credits)
• Greek Language 3A (30 credits)
• Latin Language 1 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 3A (30 credits)
• Roman Britain (30 credits)
• Art & Power in the Age of Alexander (Hellenistic Art I) (15 credits)
• Introductory Greek Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• From Sulla to Caesar: the fall of the Roman Republic (15 credits)
• Early Greece from Troy to Marathon (15 credits)
• Pompeii: History & Society (15 credits)
• Introductory Latin Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Homer (15 credits)
• Myth & literature: ancient stories, modern meanings (15 credits)
• Death in Greek Literature (15 credits)
• Virgil’s Aeneid (15 credits)
• The Art of Acquisition: Conquest, Collection & the Rise of Rome (Hellenistic Art II) (15 credits)
• Building Greece (15 credits)
• Constantinople: Imperial Capital - Medieval Metropolis (15 credits)
• Introductory Greek Texts: Verse (15 credits)
• Democracy, Empire & War: Greece 446-338 BC (15 credits)
• The Late Roman World, AD 337-425 (15 credits)
• Introductory Latin Texts: Verse (15 credits)
• Wisdom & the Divine: ancient Greek philosophy & religion (15 credits)
• Ancient Sexuality I (15 credits)
• Ancient Sexuality II (15 credits)
• Latin Lyric Poetry (15 credits)
• The Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis & the Ancient World (15 credits)

French

You will then select 30 credits from a range of French optional modules, which may typically include:

• Death & Desire: love in French Literature before 1700 (15 credits)
• The French Novel after 1700 (15 credits)
• French Poetry after 1800 (15 credits)
• The Idea of France (15 credits)
• Modern French History (15 credits)
• Modernity & the City (15 credits)
• Writing the Self in French Literature since 1700 (15 credits)

Your third year of study will be spent abroad at one of our partner institutions which include:

• Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Martinique, Caribbean
• University of Aix-en-Provence
• University of Lyon II
• IEP Lyon
• University of Montreal, Canada
• University of Poitiers
• Sciences-Po (IEP Paris)
• Sorbonne IV (Paris)
• University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
• École Normale Supérieure (Paris)
• University of Strasbourg
• Université Paris X Nanterre.

You may also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or undertake an internship/work placement in a French-speaking environment.

Classical Studies

There are no required Classical studies modules in this year of study.

French

You are required to take the following modules:

• French language (15 credits)

Classical Studies

You will take 60 credits from a wide range of Classics modules, which may typically include:

• Minoans and Mycenaeans (30 credits)
• The Classical Art of the Body: Greek Sculpture (30 credits)
• The Art of Making: Craft Production from Classical Antiquity to Today (30 credits)
• Augustus: Power & Propaganda (30 credits)
• The History & Theory of Ancient Slavery (30 credits)
• Greek Religion (30 credits)
• Pagans, Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire (30 credits)
• Streetwise: narrating the city in classical literature (30 credits)
• Neronian Literature and Culture (30 credits)
• Plato's myths: the soul, desire and the Beyond (30 credits)
• Living for ever: fame and glory from Homeric heroes to Roman emperors (and beyond) (30 credits)
• An Introduction to Classical Reception Studies in Sixteen Encounters (30 credits)
• Dissertation (30 credits)
• Greek Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Persian Kings and their Territory in the Achaemenid Empire (15 credits)
• Latin Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Descent to the Underworld: transformations of a myth (15 credits)
• Romanticism and Revolution: Byron, the Shelleys and Greece (15 credits)
• Origins of Nations and nationalism: identity in the Hellenic world (15 credits)
• Venice: history and art (15 credits)
• Greek Texts: Poetry (15 credits)
• Latin Texts: Poetry (15 credits)

French

You will then select 45 credits from a wide range of French optional modules, which may typically include:

• The Stylistics of Translation (15 credits)
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Recent French Thought (15 credits)
• Contemporary women's writing in French (15 credits)
• Images of Algeria (15 credits)
• Shadows of Enlightenment (15 credits)
• Old French Romance (15 credits)
• Citizenship and Exclusion: Republicanism and its discontents (15 credits)
• Class and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (15 credits)
• Proust (15 credits)
• Sixteenth-century Encounters with the 'New World.' (15 credits)
• Québécois Fiction & Film across the Canadian Bicultural Divide (15 credits)
• Citizenship & Exclusion: Theories and Practices (15 credits)
• Satire in Early Modern France (15 credits)
• Politics and the Moving Image in post-1968 France (15 credits)
• Queer Sexuality in Pre-Modern French Literature (15 credits)
• The French Revolution Effect: Italy, France, Germany, Greece (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-todate, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.