French & History with a year abroad

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

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

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

History

You are required to take the following History modules:

• Historical Skills, Sources and Approaches (30 Credits)

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

• The Making of Britain 400-1400 (30 credits)
• European History 400-1500 (30 credits)
• Early Modern Britain 1500-1750 (30 credits)
• Power, Belief and Culture in Europe 1500-1800 (30 credits)
• The Worlds of the British Empire, c. 1700-1960 (30 credits)
• Europe from 1793 to 1991 (30 credits)
• Politics and Society in Britain, 1780-1945 (30 credits)
• World History, 1870s-2000s (30 credits)

Your second year of study is made up of the required modules outlined below, plus two French optional modules and two 30 credit History optional modules. It is possible to take one History option at another college within the University of London.

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

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

History

There are no required History modules in year 2.

French

Students then select 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)

History

In your second year, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional 30-credit modules, which may typically include:

• The Northern Ireland Troubles (30 credits)
• History of Feminism (30 credits)
• The Black Death in England (30 credits)
• Faraway so Close: The Middle East since 1800 (30 credits)
• China: From Imperial State to People’s Republic (30 credits)
• The Civilising Mission: French Imperialism since 1750 (30 credits)
• War in the Pacific, 1898 to 1975 & beyond: Strategy & Diplomacy (30 credits)
• An additional range of intercollegiate ‘Group
• II’ 30 credit modules offered by our partner colleges in the University of London

In addition you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional 15-credit modules, which may typically include:

• Atlantic Slavery: West Africa & the Caribbean, 1492-1807 (15 credits)
• Europe in the Second World War (15 credits)
• The Hundred Years War (15 credits)
• Electric Cities : The Experience of Modernity in London, Melbourne, New York & Paris, 1870 – 1929 (15 credits)
• Orientalism, Race, Islam (15 credits)
• Students may also take one optional 15 credit module offered elsewhere in the Faculty

You may also take optional modules offered elsewhere in the faculty, and up to 30 credits from University of London Intercollegiate options.

3rd Year

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

French

You are required to take the following modules:

• Core French Language (15 credits)

History

There are no required History modules in Year Four.

French

You are also required to take 45 credits from a range of 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 & Exclusion: Republicanism and its discontents (15 Credits)
• Class & Conflict in Nineteenth-Century (15 Credits)
• 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)

History

You will be required to take a 30 credits from a range of Special Subject options, which may typically include:

• Romans & Barbarians: The Transformation of the Roman West 350-700 (30 credits)
• The Enlightenment (30 credits)
• The Experience of Power in Nigeria since 1900 (30 credits)
• Red, White and Blues: Jazz and the United States in the 20th Century (30 credits)
• Women & Gender in Early Modern England (30 credits)
• Additional University of London intercollegiate special subject modules (30 credits)
• In addition, you are required to take either the special subject associated dissertation or the Free Long Standing Essay (30 credits), which can be on any subject of your choice.

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.