French (four year) with a year abroad

Currently, students study the following core and compulsory modules. If there are options available the current choices are also shown. King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the Faculty/Department for further advice.

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

When studying French at King’s College London your first year will comprise the following modules.

You are required to take the following modules:

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

Students are also required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules which typically include:

• French Narrative Texts: An Introduction (15 credits)
• Subjects & Selves: An Introduction to French Thought (15 credits)
• Text & Performance: An Introduction to French Theatre & Film (15 credits)
• Revolution & Reaction in Modern France: An Introduction to Modern French History (15 credits)
• French Political Thought (15 credits)

King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any particular optional module will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change.

Year 2

You are required to take the following modules:

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

You are also required to take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, including at least two early/transhistorical modules, from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Death & Desire: Love in French Literature before 1700 (15 credits)
• Writing the Self since 1700 in French Literature (15 credits)
• French poetry since 1800 (15 credits)
• Comedy in French Literature before 1700 (15 credits)
• The French Novel Since 1700 (15 credits)
• Modernity & the City (15 credits)
• Modern French History (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.

In your final year, you are required to study French Language as a required module in addition to a further seven optional modules to bring your total credits to 120 for the year.

You are required to take the following modules:

• Core French Language (15 credits)
• The Stylistics of Translation (15 credits)

You are required to take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, including at least one pre-1800 literature module, from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Dissertation (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 & 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 & Practices (15 credits)
• Satire in Early Modern France* (15 credits)
• Queer Sexuality in Pre-Modern French Literature* (15 credits)
• The French Revolution Effect: Italy, France, Germany, Greece (15 credits)
• Other relevant modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or Global Institutes