French with Film Studies 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 Department(s) for further advice.

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

You will study four required modules in your first year totalling 90 credits; you will also choose additional modules totalling 30 credits to make up the required 120 credits for the year.

French

You are required to take the following modules:

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

Film Studies

You are required to take the following modules:

• Introduction to Film Studies: Forms (15 credits)
• Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts (15 credits)

French

You will take a further 30 credits in French, choosing from a range of modules, which may typically include:

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

Film Studies

There are no optionlal Film Studies modules in year 1.

2nd Year

French

You are required to take the following French modules:

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

Film Studies

There are no required Film Studies modules in Year 2.

French

You are also required to take 60 credits, including at least one early/transhistorical module, from a range of optional French modules which may typically include:

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

Film Studies

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

• Topics in World Cinema (15 credits)
• Contemporary European Cinema (15 credits)
• Authorship and Creativity in the Cinema (15 credits)
• Film Forms (eg Documentary Film) (15 credits)
• The French New Wave (15 credits)

Your third year of study will be spent abroad at one of our partner institutions to improve your linguistic skills and understanding of French life and culture:

• 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
• Univesité de Poitiers
• Université de Genève

In your final year, you will study a 15 credit required language module, plus five optional modules totalling 75 credits in French and two optional modules totalling 30 credits in Film Studies.

French

You are required to take the following modules:

• Core French Language (15 Credits)

Film Studies

There are no required Film Studies modules in year four.

French

You are also required to take 75 credits from a range of optional French modules, including at least one on pre-1800 literature, which may typically include:

• The Stylistics of Translation (15 credits)
• 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)
• 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)
• Queer Sexuality in Pre-Modern French Literature* (15 credits)
• The French Revolution Effect: Italy, France, Germany, Greece (15 credits)

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Film Studies

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

• American Underground Cinema (15 credits)
• Fathers in Film (15 credits)
• Film Genre: Hollywood Musical (15 credits)
• Stardom & Performance (15 credits)
• Third Cinema & Beyond (15 credits)
• Film and Architecture (15 credits)

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.