French & History with a year abroad

Currently, students study the compulsory and core modules listed below. As well as this they can choose from a range of optional modules and dissertations in the French and History departments. Optional modules listed are currently available, but we review these on a regular basis, in order to offer innovative and exciting programmes, and this list is therefore subject to change. For further details please check the departmental websites. All History modules are taught within the History Department unless otherwise indicated, however, during the second and fourth year it is possible to take one History module at another college within the University of London. For a full list of modules available please see www.history.ac.uk

You take the core and compulsory modules outlined below plus one optional History module.

French
Core French Language
Introduction to French Literature (compulsory)

History
Historical Skills, Sources and Approaches

Students choose one History module from the following list: 

• The Making of Britain 400-1400
• Medieval Europe 400-1500
• Early Modern Britain 1500-1750
• Power, Belief and Culture in Europe 1500-1800
• The Worlds of the British Empire, c1730-1960
• Europe from 1793 to 1991
• Politics and Society in Britain, 1780-1945

First year History module descriptions can be found on our website:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/level4/index.aspx

You take the core and compulsory modules outlined below plus two French optional modules and two History optional modules. During the second year it is possible to take one History option at another college within the University of London.

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

• British Economic History from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
• Church, State and Nation in Britain, 1750-1939
• Crime and the Law 1500-1750
• Europe in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
• European Jewry & the Transition to Modernity, 1650 - 1850
• Faith, Nation and Empire in Modern East-Central Europe (1800-present)
• From Crowd to Court: Cultures of Politics in Later Hanoverian Britain
• The French Civil War, 1934-1970
• Friends. Political Bonds in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy (1300-1550)
• Greek History down to 322BC
• History and Memory
• The History of Australia since 1788
• History of Political Ideas
• History of the Iberian World, 1492-1822
• History of the Roman Empire
• The Nobility & Gentry of Medieval England, 1150-1500
• The Northern Ireland Troubles
• Religion & Society in Southern Europe
• Roman History down to 31BC
• The Soviet Union and Russia, 1945-2000
• Themes in Early Modern Cultural History
• Theories of Modern History

Second year students can also choose to take a module at another College of the University of London. A full list of intercollegiate History modules can be found here: http://www.history.ac.uk/syllabus/intercollegiate-courses

Second year History module descriptions can be found on our website:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/level5/index.aspx

Normally spent abroad in a French-speaking country.

You take the core module outlined below plus three French optional modules and two History optional modules.

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
Quebecois Fiction and Film Across the Canadian Bicultural Divide
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
Old French Romance 


History
Students can choose to take a Group III module which involves studying primary source materials or a Thematic Special Subject, in which students think comparatively and theoretically about the different periods and places they have studied in their degree so far.

Typical Group III modules:

• Alexander the Great
• Augustus: Power and Propaganda
• Australia in the Second World War: Strategy, Politics and Diplomacy
• Britain's Thatcher
• British Imperial Policy and Decolonisation, 1938-1964
• Caribbean Intellectual History since 1800
• Carolingian Europe, c.750-900
• The Making of a Colonial Regime: Eastern India, 1780-1820
• The Norman Conquest of Britain
• The Origins of Reformation in England
• Reform & Rebellion in England, 1215-1267
• Romans & Barbarians: The Transformation of the Roman West 350-700
• Women & Gender in Early Modern England
• Any intercollegiate Group III (please see http://www.history.ac.uk/syllabus/intercollegiate-courses)

Typical Thematic Special Subject modules:

• Cosmopolitanism
• Crime and Punishment
• Economic Crises
• Intimacies
• Nations
• Ritual

Final year History module descriptions can be found on our website:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/level6/index.aspx