Portuguese & French 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

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Attain a high level of proficiency in both French and Portuguese, even if you have no prior knowledge of studying Portuguese. The Department offers an unrivalled variety of courses on Portuguese and Brazilian studies: from the medieval to the contemporary, on literature, linguistics, art, history, popular music, film, theatre and translation, all taught from our Central London campus. This course includes a year abroad which is normally split between French and Portuguese-speaking countries (usually Portugal or Brazil).

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About this course

Recognised as one of the leading French departments in the UK, distinguished for its world-leading and internationally excellent research.
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.
The year abroad offers students the unique opportunity for immersion in French culture. We have exchanges with a number of partner universities in France and French speaking countries, and the opportunity 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 core modules in French language to a high level of proficiency in written and spoken French.

Studying Portuguese and French at King’s will equip you with the language skills, cultural awareness and critical independence necessary to compete successfully in almost limitless range of careers. Recent graduates have gone on to gain employment in areas including business and commerce, finance, marketing, accountancy, law, the Civil Service, the media, charitable and non-governmental organizations, while others have remained in higher education to gain a teaching qualification or continue their studies at postgraduate level.

AAB

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

  • Portuguese Language
  • Translation
  • French Literature
  • French
  • French language
  • Literature
  • Language
  • French poetry
  • Political Thought
  • Anglophone

Course programme

1st Year

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

Required Modules

In your first year you are required to take the following modules:

French

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

Portuguese

  • Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)
  • Global Iberias (30 credits)
Optional ModulesThere are no optional modules in your first year, as we give you a broad introduction into the language and countries you are studying.

2nd Year

Required Modules

French

You are required to take the following modules:

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

Portugese

You are required to take the following module:

  • Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)
Optional Modules

French

Choose two modules (totalling 30 credits) from a range of options that may include:

  • Death & Desire: Love in French Literature before 1700 (15 credits)
  • Writing the Self in French Literature since 1700 (15 credits)
  • French poetry since 1800 (15 credits)
  • Comedy in French Literature before 1700 (15 credits)
  • The Idea of France (15 credits)
  • The French novel after 1700 (15 credits)
  • Modernity and the City (15 credits)
  • French Political Thought II (15 credits)
  • Writing Africa: Anglophone, Francophone (15 credits)

Portuguese

Choose two modules (totalling 30 credits) from a range of options that may include:

  • Visuality, Literature and Modern Life in Latin America (15 credits)
  • Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (Modern) (15 credits)
  • 19th Century Fiction in Brazil and Portugal
  • Power, God and Race - The Writings of Medieval Portugal (15 credits)
3rd Year

Your third year will be spent abroad, normally for one semester in a French-speaking country and one in a Portuguese-speaking country. If you choose to study, then we have an extensive list of partner institutions which you may attend, which currently include:

French institutions:

  • Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (Martinique Campus)
  • University of Aix-en-Provence
  • University of Lyon II
  • IEP Lyon
  • University of Montreal
  • University of Poitiers
  • Sciences-Po (IEP Paris)
  • Sorbonne IV (Paris)
  • University of Geneva
  • Université Laval
  • École Normale Supérieure (Paris)
  • University of Strasbourg
  • Université Paris X Nanterre

Portuguese institutions:

  • Lisboa
  • Nova de Lisboa
  • Coimbra
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Universidade Federal da Bahia
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

You may also choose to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme, or to undertake an internship or work placement in a Spanish or Portuguese-speaking environment, which you will normally arrange yourself, allowing you to explore career prospects and fields of personal interest.

Required ModulesThere are no required modules in year three.Optional ModulesThere are no optional modules in year three.

4th Year

Required Modules

French

You are required to take the following module:

  • Core French Language (15 credits)

Portuguese

You are required to take the following module:

  • Core Portuguese Language (30 credits)
Optional Modules

French

You are also required to take three modules (totalling 45 credits) from a range of options that 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 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)
  • The French Revolution Effect: Italy, France, Germany, Greece (15 credits)

You are free to take a relevant 15 credit module from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or Global Institutes instead of one of the above, provided they are directly related to French.

Portuguese

Choose two modules (totalling 30 credits) from a range of options that may typically include:

  • Brazilian Poetry and Song II: 1958 to the Present (15 credits)
  • Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Africa and the Americas (15 credits)
  • Love, Dictatorship & Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction (15 credits)
  • Dissertation (15 credits)
  • Peripheral Europeans: Modernity, Traditionalism & National Identity (15 credits)
  • Lusophone African Literature II: The Post-Colonial Experience (15 credits)
  • Comparing Romance Languages: Historical Evolution and Linguistic Interference (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.

Additional information

International tuition fee - £18,900 per year.

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