French & Modern Greek Studies 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.

All first year students are required to take the following core courses:

• Core French Language
• Introduction to French Literature (compulsory)
• Modern Greek Language

First year students choose from a range of optional modules, which would typically include options such as:

• The Emergence & Development of Modern Greece
• Reading modern poetry comparatively (Greek/English)
• From Late Antiquity to Byzantium
• Ours once more: perceptions of the past in the Greek world

All second year students are required to take the following core courses:

• Core French Language
• The Practice of Translation (compulsory)
• Modern Greek Language

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

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

Modern Greek

• The novels of Nikos Kazantzakis
• Modernity and the nation in Greek fiction since 1922
• Greek society and politics, 1922-1950
• Language varieties and sociolinguistics
• Byzantine saints
• History of the Byzantine Empire I (641-867): From Survival to Revival
• History of the Byzantine Empire II (867-1055): The Apogee
• History of the Byzantine empire III (1055-1261): Challenge and renewal
• History of the Byzantine empire IV (1261-1453): Fragmentation and Fall

Normally spent abroad in Greece and a French-speaking country.

All final year students are required to take the following core courses:

• Core French Language
• Modern Greek Language

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

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

Modern Greek

• Modern Greek Dissertation
• War in Greek poetry 1897-1981
• Modernity and tradition in Greece (19th-20th centuries)
• Text and discourse analysis
• Constantine and his Historians
• Describing Constantinople
• Medicine and society in the ancient world
• Medicine and society in the medieval world