French with English with a year abroad

Study across a range of French and Francophone language and literature from the Middle Ages to today, plus diverse choice of English modules, from medieval literature to modern poetry and women's writing. The degree is based in London and includes year in a French-speaking country.

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.

English:

• One of the oldest English departments in the country, with an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research.
• Personal attention given to each student, creating a vibrant intellectual atmosphere and a network of support.
• Offers a wide range of modules, and diverse approaches.
• Central location offers access to Shakespeare’s Globe, and countless other sites and buildings with literary associations.
• Graduates develop transferable analytical and communications skills making them highly desirable to employers across a range of sectors.

For more about the Departments of French and English follow the department contact links.

The Department of French offers the possibility of study across the whole range of French and Francophone language and literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, as well as in French history, contemporary French institutions, film, politics and philosophy. This programme includes a year in a French-speaking country.

The English Department prides itself not only on the range and diversity of the modules it offers, from medieval literature to modern poetry and women's writing, but also on the diversity of the approaches it employs, from contemporary literary theory to close textual examination and historical scholarship.


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 two optional modules in French and two modules in English.

French:
Core French Language
Introduction to French Literature (compulsory)

French:
French Narrative Texts: an Introduction
Subjects & Selves: an Introduction to French Thought
Text & Performance: an Introduction to French Theatre & Film
Revolution & Reaction in Modern France: an Introduction to Modern French History

English:
Language in Time
Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature
Introducing Literary Theories
Medieval Literary Culture
Reading Poetry
Renaissance Literature
Writing London

You take the core and compulsory modules plus four options in French and two modules in English.

French:
Core French Language
The Practice of Translation (compulsory)

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


English:
A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean London
Australian Literature & Film
Creative Writing: the Novel
Cultural Encounters: Literature & Language in Anglo-Saxon England
Early Modern Sexualities
Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing
First World War Literature
History, Politics & the Elizabethan Imagination
Irish Literature & Culture
Language of Dance
Modernist Fiction
Rise of the Novel
Narrating the Nation
Performance in Medieval Culture,
Romanticism, Revolution & Representation 1776-1832
Shakespeare in London
Subjects of Desire in Medieval Religious Writings
The Fin de Siecle
Theatre Capital
Victorians & Social Change 1840-1870

Normally spent in a French-speaking country.

You take the core module, plus five options in French, plus two modules in English.

French:
Core French Language

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
Old French Romance 
 
English:
Ancient Lyric & Poetry
Autobiography & Modern Self-Representation
Beowulf: Heroes & Other Monsters
British Literature & Film
Court Cultures in the Age of Elizabeth I
Creative Writing: Drama
Critically Queer: Literature, Culture & Queer Theory
Elizabethan Shakespeare
Gender and Performance
Imagined Worlds
Jacobean Shakespeare
James Joyce & Ulysses
Jane Austen in Context
Literature & Impressionism
Medieval Body in Pain
Medieval Romance
Memory & Time in the 19th Century
Performance Philosophy
Post Colonial Australian Literature
Post Colonial Perspectives