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Classical Studies & Comparative Literature

BA

Full Time

| UCAS code: QQ28

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.

YEAR 1

Compulsory modules:

Greek or Latin language
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Methods & Theories

First year students choose from a range of optional modules from across the School of Arts & Humanities at King's (including modules offered by the departments of English, Film Studies, French, German, Hellenic Studies and Spanish), which would typically include options such as:

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
Reading Modern Poetry Comparatively: Greek / English
The Novel in 18th-Century Europe
Ours Once More: Perceptions of the Past in the Greek World
Writing London
Reading Poetry
Literature of the Renaissance
Introducing Literary Theories
Introduction to Film Studies: Forms
Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts
Subjects and Selves: an Introduction to French Thought
Text and Performance: an Introduction to French and Francophone Theatre and Film
Medieval Germany: Language, Literature and Society
German Literature from Luther to Goethe
German Literature: 19th and 20th Centuries
Medieval Spain: from Frontier to Empire
Introduction to Modern Spanish Culture

YEAR 2

Compulsory modules:

Views of Antiquity or Languages & Literature II

Second year students choose from a range of optional modules from across the School of Arts & Humanities at King's (including modules offered by the departments of American Studies, English, Film Studies, French, Hellenic Studies, German and Spanish), which would typically include options such as:

Literature of Empire
Post-Colonial Literature and Theory
The Ancient & Early Medieval Book
The Medieval Book
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
Subjects of Desire in Medieval Literature
Jacobean Theatre
Modernist Fiction
Literature & Psychoanalysis
Modern Theatre
Australian Literature & Film
Women & Love in the Renaissance
Literature & Enlightenment in the French 18th Century
Writing & Politics
Twentieth-century Women's Writing
Introduction to Francophone African Literatures
Heinrich Heine
Modernism & the Avant-Garde
Economic Thought & Literature
Portuguese Symbolism & Realism
After Franco: Films & Texts of the Transition
Perceptions of Modernity: Spanish America 1800-1920
Culture & Identity in Spanish America
Goya & the Dream of Reason

Full module descriptions can be found on our website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/complit/modules/index.aspx

YEAR 3

All final year students are required to research and write a Comparative Literature dissertation on a topic involving Classics.

Final year students choose from a range of optional modules from across the School of Arts & Humanities at King's (including modules offered by the departments of English, Film Studies, French, German, Hellenic Studies and Spanish), which would typically include options such as: