French (three year)

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 for further advice.

Students take one core and one compulsory module plus four optional modules.

Core French Language
Introduction to French Literature (compulsory)

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

First semester - you take optional modules from the list below; second semester - you take modules in French language and culture at ULIP.

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

You take the core module outlined and seven optional modules.

Core French Language

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