French & Management with a year abroad

King's College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

This diverse degree in French & Management will help you to hone your French written and oral skills. Modules cover a range of French and Francophone language, literature, culture and history, from the Middle Ages to modern day. Your knowledge and critical skills are complemented by core and optional Management subjects, which may include economics, organisational behaviour, accounting, marketing, resource management and business strategy. This degree is taught in the heart of London and includes a year in a French-speaking country.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

About this course

A leading department of French, currently ranked within the top 5 in the UK (Complete University Guide 2019).
Teaching features innovative approaches to French language, literature, cultural, political and historical studies.
Opportunity to study abroad offers students the prospect to immerse themselves in French culture and society and achieve language fluency. We have exchanges with a number of partner universities in France and French speaking countries, and the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or to undertake an internship/work placement in a French-speaking environment (typically sourced by students themselves).
Combination of language skills, cultural literacy and critical thinking means graduates from King’s are highly employable.
All students follow required modules in French language to a high level of proficiency in written and spoken French

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Please note that A-level General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives are not accepted by King's as one of your A-levels. However, if offered the grade achieved may be taken into account when considering whether or not to accept a candidate who has just fallen short of the conditions of their offer.

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Subjects

  • French Literature
  • Marketing
  • Financial
  • Resource Management
  • Financial Training
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • French language
  • Management
  • Financial Management
  • Accounting

Course programme

1st Year

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 Department(s) for further advice.

You take the core and compulsory modules outlined totalling 120 credits.

Required Modules

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

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

Management

You are required to take the following Management modules:

  • Accounting and Financial Management (30 credits)
  • Organisational Behaviour (15 credits)
  • Sociology of Work (15 credits)
Optional Modules

There are no optional modules in Year 1.

2nd Year

You take the core and compulsory modules outlined plus options in French & Management totalling 120 credits.

Required Modules

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

  • Core French Language (15 credits)
  • The Practice of Translation (15 credits) OR
  • French for Business Stage 6 (15 credits)

Management

You are required to take the following Management modules:

  • Principles of Marketing (15 credits)
  • International Business (15 credits)

Optional Modules

You are also required to take 60 credits of options (30 from each subject) from a range of optional 15 credit modules, which may typically include:

French

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

Management

  • Corporate Finance (15 credits)
  • Government & Business (15 credits)
  • Industrial Organisation (15 credits)
  • Microeconomics (15 credits)
  • Law & Management (15 credits)
  • Introduction to Entrepreneurship (15 credits)
  • Technology & Innovation (15 credits)
  • Marketing Management (15 credits)
  • Human Resource Management (15 credits)
  • Management Accounting (15 credits)
  • Consumer Behaviour (15 credits)
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
4th Year

You will study the required modules plus optional modules in French and Management.

Required Modules

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

  • French Language (15 credits)

Management

There are no required modules for Management in year 4.

Optional Modules

French

You will also select 45 credits from a range of optional 15-credit 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 & its discontents (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)

Management

You will also select 60 credits from a range of optional 15 credit modules, which may typically include:

  • Communications in Organisations (15 credits)
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (15 credits)
  • Employment Law (15 credits)
  • Globalisation & Employment (15 credits)
  • International Corporate Governance (15 credits)
  • International Financial Systems (15 credits)
  • International HRM (15 credits)
  • International Marketing (15 credits)
  • Leadership: Theory & Practice (15 credits)
  • Marketing Communications (15 credits)
  • Organisational Change (15 credits)
  • Strategic Management (15 credits)
  • The Social Psychology of Financial Markets (15 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.

Additional information

International tuition fee - £18,900 per year.

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