French and Spanish with a year abroad

The course is divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

• Core French Language (30 Credits)
• Introduction to French Literature (30 Credits) (compulsory)

Spanish

You are required to take the following Spanish modules:

• Core Spanish Language I (30 Credits)
• Global Iberias (30 Credits)

There are no optional modules in the first year.

2nd Year

You will study the following required modules, plus two optional modules in both French and Spanish.

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

• French: Core Language (15 Credits)
• The Practice of Translation (15 Credits)

Spanish

You are required to take the following Spanish module:

• Core Spanish Language (30 Credits)

French

You are also required to take 30 credits from a range of optional French 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)

Spanish

You are also required to take 30 credits from a range of optional Spanish modules which may typically include:

• Catalan Language (15 credits)
• The Study of Gender in Spanish American Literature and Culture (15 credits)
• Memory in Modern Spanish Culture (15 credits)
• Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (15 credits)
• Visuality, Literature and Modern Life in Latin America (15 credits)
• Language Acts and Worldmaking in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (15 credits)

This year of study is spent abroad in French and Spanish-speaking countries.

Partner institutions for the French semester currently include:

• Université Lumière Lyon II
• Université Paris-Sorbonne
• Université Paris-Nanterre
• Aix-Marseille Université
• Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (Martinique)
• École Normale Supérieure (Paris)
• École Normale Supérieure (Lyon)
• Sciences Po (Paris)
• Sciences Po (Lyon)
• Université de Montréal
• Université Laval
• Université de Strasbourg

Partner institutions for the Spanish semester currently include:

• Alicante
• Cadiz
• Carlos III (Madrid)
• Córdoba
• País Vasco
• Pompeu Fabra
• PUC (Chile)
• Tec (Querétaro, Mexico)
• Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus)
• UNAM (Mexico)
• Pacifico (Peru)
• Salamanca
• San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

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

4th Year

French

You are required to take the following French module:

• Core French Language (15 Credits)

Spanish

You are required to take the following Spanish module:

• Core Spanish Language (30 Credits)

French

You are also required to take 45 credits from a range of optional French 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 & Exclusion: Republicanism and its discontents (15 Credits)
• Class & 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)

Spanish

You are also required to take 30 credits from a range of optional Spanish modules which may typically include:

• Advanced Topics in Applied Linguistics (15 credits)
• Advanced Catalan Language (15 credits)
• Myth & Archive: 19th & 20th Century Rewritings on Colonial Latin America (15 credits)
• Stereotypes in Modern Spanish Cinema (15 credits)
• Key Terms & Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts (15 credits)
• Journey through Spain: Travel Writing in Modern Spain (15 credits)
• Writing Women in Pre-Modern Spain (15 credits)
• Catalan Culture (15 credits)
• The Writer & the Public: Journalism in Spain (15 credits)
• Comparing Romance Languages (15 credits)