French Literature & Culture

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

Overview
Studying our French Literature & Culture MA means joining a lively and welcoming French department and dipping into London’s unparalleled cultural and intellectual life, including its collections of French art and its French film festival, plus other connected events. The course offers research methodology and critical theory as a core component, with a wide choice of options ranging from Medieval Occitan to Contemporary French Women’s Writing.
Leads to careers in universities, the media, arts, teaching, journalism and many other sectors.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key benefits
Unique range of modules across all periods of French and Francophone literature.
Staff in the French department pride themselves on taking a close interest in graduate students, and on offering teaching, often in small groups, that draws on the breadth and depth of their research expertise and enthusiasm.
Modules taught by established specialists in a department with a lively postgraduate culture.
Particular strengths in literary and critical theory and in literary studies of all periods, from medieval French and Occitan literature to the present.
Located in the heart of London.

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London
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Subjects

  • Teaching
  • Critical Theory
  • French Literature
  • Writing

Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

You are required to take:

  • Research Methodology: Reading Practice/Reading Theory (40 credits)
  • Dissertation (60 credits)

If you are a part-time student, you will take Research Methodology in your first year, along with 40 credits of optional modules from the list below. In your second year you will take your dissertation along with a further 40 credits of optional modules.

Optional Modules

In addition, you are required to take 80 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

  • The Troubadours & their Legacy (20 credits)
  • Renaissance Transgressions: France in its European Contexts (20 credits)
  • What is a (French) Classic? (20 credits)
  • Learning from Experience: The Postcolonial, the Personal & the Literary’ (20 credits)
  • Perversion: Theory, Literature, Film (20 credits)
  • Rights before Human Rights: Eighteenth-Century Theories and Representations (20 credits)
  • Text, Image, Object & Gesture in Twentieth-Century French Writing (20 credits)
  • Collaborative Translation (20 credits)
  • One 20-credit master’s level language module in the Modern Language Centre, subject to the approval of the programme convenor

Students are also able to take related modules that are taught outside of the department and subject to the approval of the course convenor.

If you are a part-time student, you will take Research Methodology in your first year, along with 40 credits of optional modules. In your second year you will take your dissertation along with a further 40 credits of optional modules.

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.

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