French & Philosophy with a year abroad

In each year you will study a required module plus a combination of optional modules, totalling 120 credits.

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

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

Philosophy

You are required to take one 15 credit Philosophy module from each of the following module groups:

• Greek Philosophy I (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Ethics I (15 credits)
• Political Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Elementary Logic (15 credits)
• Metaphysics I (15 credits)
• Epistemology I (15 credits)
• Methodology (15 credits)

You are also required to take one further module from any of the Philosophy modules above.

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

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

Philosophy

In your second year, you are required to choose three 15 credit level 5 modules from at least two of the following groups, each of which may typically include the following modules:

• Greek Philosophy II: Plato (15 credits)
• Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy II: Locke & Berkeley (15 credits)
• Modern Philosophy II: Spinoza & Leibniz (15 credits)

• Ethics II: History of Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)
• Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)
• Political Philosophy II: Theories of Freedom OR Justice (15 credits) (running in alternate years)
• Political Philosophy II: History of Political Philosophy (15 credits)

• Epistemology II (15 credits)
• Metaphysics II (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Logic & Language (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Mind (15 credits)
• Intermediate Logic (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Physics I: Philosophy of Space and Time (15 credits)

French

You will select 30 credits from a range of French modules, which may typically include:

• Death & Desire: Love in French Literature before 1700 (30 credits)
• Writing the Self since 1700 in French Literature (30 credits)
• French Poetry Since 1800 (30 credits)
• The French Novel since 1700 (30 credits)
• The Idea of France (30 credits)
• Modernity & the City (30 credits)
• French Political Thought II (30 credits)

Philosophy

In addition, you are required to take a further 15 credits from any of the optional level 5 modules in the groups listed above, or choose from a further range of 15-credit options, which may typically include:

• Hellenistic Philosophy
• Indian Philosophy: The Orthodox Schools
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Medieval Philosophy
• Philosophy of Psychology
• First-Order Logic
• Aesthetics
• Gender & Philosophy
• Topics in Modern Philosophy
• Topics in Political Philosophy
• Topics in Philosophy of Language
• Utilitarianism
• Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
• Indian Philosophy: The Heterodox Schools

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 French module:

• Core French Language (15 credits)

Philosophy

There are no required modules in Year 4.

French

You are also required to take modules totalling 45 credits in French from optional modules, which may typically include:

• The Stylistics of Translation (15 credits)
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Recent French Though (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 and Exclusion: Republicanism and its discontents (15 credits)
• Class and 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)

Philosophy

You are also required to take 60 credits of philosophy from optional modules, of which at least 45 credits must be at level 6, from a range which may typically include:

• 19th Century Continental Philosophy (15 credits)
• 20th Century Continental Philosophy (15 credits)
• Dissertation (30 credits)
• Ethics of Science & Technology (15 credits)
• Gender & Philosophy (15 credits)
• Greek Philosophical Texts II: Aristotle (15 credits)
• Greek Philosophical Texts I: Plato (15 credits)
• Hellenistic Philosophy (15 credits)
• Indian Philosophy: The Orthodox Schools (15 credits)
• Indian Philosophy: The Heterodox Schools (15 credits)
• Kant's Epistemology and Metaphysics (15 credits)
• Medieval Philosophy (15 credits)
• Modal Logic (15 credits)
• Moral Normativity (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology II (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Religion (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Science (15 credits)
• Scepticism (15 credits)
• Topics in Greek Philosophy, Metaphysics, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of the Mind, Political Philosophy or Utilitarianism.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-todate, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.