Classical Studies & French with a year abroad

A degree comprising intensive study of Latin and/or ancient Greek language and literature, or Greek and Roman culture, with some language work combined with French language, literature and culture. The course is based in central London and includes a year of study abroad.

Classics

• One of the very best classics departments in the country, renowned for its quality of teaching, student experience and cutting-edge research.
• Central location offers collaborations with the British Museum and the Museum of London, which are incorporated into undergraduate teaching.
• The department stages an annual Greek play in the original language, providing students with an opportunity to experience the Greek dramatic tradition.
• Degree programmes combine focus and flexibility, allowing students to pursue their interests.
• Graduates are equipped with analytical and presentational skills valued by employers, leading to careers in heritage-related professions, the media, education, civil service and the performing arts.

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French

• Recognised as one of the leading French departments in the UK, distinguished for its world-leading and internationally excellent research.
• 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 currently including Sorbonne Paris IV, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, The University of Provence, The University of Montpellier III, Université de Montréal, The University of Cergy-Pontoise, University of Poitiers, University of Lyon, Institut d'études politiques (IEP) and the University of Geneva. The year abroad also offers students the opportunity to work as an English Language Assistant on a programme run by the British Council.
• Opportunity to study abroad offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in French culture and society, and achieve language fluency.
• 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.

The French component in this joint honours programme offers the possibility of study across the whole range of French and Francophone language, literature and culture, from the Middle Ages to the present day, and includes a year of study abroad. This can be combined on the Classics side with either the intensive study of Latin and/or ancient Greek language and literature, or a more broadly-based approach to Greek and Roman culture as a whole, with a smaller (but still indispensable) element of language work.

Greek Play
Every year (since 1953), students in the Department of Classics have produced and performed a Greek play - the only production in the UK to be performed annually in the original Greek. Read more about the Greek Play (and its history) at King's: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/about/greek/index.aspx


King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any particular optional course will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change.

Compulsory & core modules:

• Latin or Greek language
• French language
• Introduction to French Literature

Choice of optional modules which may include the following:

• Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome
• Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction
• Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BC-AD 600)
• Working with Greek & Latin Literary Texts: An Introduction

Full module descriptions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/french/modules/index.aspx

Core and Compulsory modules:

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

Second year students choose from a range of optional modules, which may include options such as:

Classics

• Views of Antiquity
• Building Greece & Rome
• Greek History down to 322BC
• Roman History down to 31BC
• Greek/Roman Drama
• Greek/Latin language
• Greek/Latin texts
• Narrative Literature in Antiquity
• Roman/Hellenistic Art

French

• Death and Desire: Love in French Literature before 1700
• Writing the Self since 1700 in French Literature
• 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

Full module descriptions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/french/modules/index.aspx

Spent in a French-speaking country.

Compulsory module:

• French language

Final year students choose from a range of optional modules, which may include options such as:

Classics

• Dissertation on a classical subject
• Greek Sculpture 750-300 BC
• Archaeology of the Western Roman Provinces
• Augustus: Power & Propaganda
• Alexander the Great
• Ancient Slavery
• Greek Religion
• Greek/Latin texts
• Rome in the Age of Cicero
• Theory of Literature

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
• Images of Algeria

Full module descriptions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/french/modules/index.aspx