Classical Studies & French with a year abroad

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