Portuguese & Brazilian Studies & French 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.

You take the core and compulsory modules outlined plus options in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies.

French
Core French Language
Introduction to French Literature (compulsory)

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
Portuguese Language

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
Literature, Love and Society in Portugal
Portuguese Identities 
Faces of Brazil: Identity and Representation in Fiction and Film
Race Development and Culture in Modern Brazil
Slavery Society and Nation in Brazilian Literature
Lisbon Stories: Culture and Society on Film
Three Revolutions: the Making of Contemporary Portugal

You take the core and compulsory modules outlined plus two options in French and two options in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies.

French
Core French Language
The Practice of Translation (compulsory)

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
Portuguese Language

French
Death & Desire: Love in French Literature before 1700
Writing the Self in French Literature since 1700
French poetry since 1800
Comedy in French Literature before 1700
The French Novel since 1700
The Idea of France
Modernity and the City
Modern French History


Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
Portuguese Literature Before and After the Revolution
Leaders, Legends and Chivalry in Medieval Portugal
Portuguese Symbolism and Realism
Portuguese Short Fiction in the Twentieth Century
History of the Iberian World (1492-1822)
Religion and Society in Southern Europe (1500-1800)
Introduction to Brazilian Popular Music Studies
Brazilian Poetry And Song I: Modernism Samba and the Estado Novo 1915-1945
Liberal Empire: Nineteenth Century Portugal
Portugal: Modernity, Traditionalism & National Identity
History of Brazil, 1889 to the Present

Normally spent abroad. The modules taken will depend on where the year abroad is spent.

You take the core modules outlined plus options in French and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies.

French
Core French Language

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
Portuguese Language (30 credits)

French
The Stylistics of Translation
Medieval Occitan Literature
The Debate about Women in the Middle Ages
Sixteenth-century Encounters with the New World
The Literary Perception of the Honnête Homme
The City in the Literature of 17th- & 18th-century France
Gender & Discourse in 18th-century France
Proust
French Literature under the Second Empire
Troubling Desires
Recent French Thought
Contemporary Women's Writing in French
Images of Algeria
Citizenship & Exclusion in Modern France
Contemporary French Film
Shadows of Enlightenment
Flaubert
French Feminist Writing
Québécois Fiction & Film across the Canadian Bicultural Divide

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
Translation into English
Portuguese Modernism and Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese Romanticism
Voicing Love and Dissent in the Sixteenth Century: Bernardim Ribeiro and Sá de Miranda
Luís de Camões
Brazilian Poetry and Song II: 1958 to the Present
Love Dictatorship & Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Greater Portugal: Colonial Culture/ Postcolonial Perspectives