Department Of French At King'S College London

The Department of French offers a variety of French BA undergraduate programmes and two MA programmes, Modern Languages, Literature & Culture and Critical Methodologies as well as postgraduate research.

The Department of French is one of the longest established in the country, and offers a range of courses which is both extensive and innovative. It offers the possibility of study across the whole range of French literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, as well as modules in French history, contemporary French institutions, film, politics and philosophy.

In addition to its strengths in all periods of French literature, the department is also one of the few institutions in the country with specialists in Francophone literature (literature written in French, but produced outside France, for example in North Africa or Canada) and Occitan (Provençal) literature.

In the 2008 UK-wide research assessment exercise, the department was ranked second in the UK. 65 per cent of our research was deemed by a panel of experts to be ‘internationally excellent’, indicating a world class research community in French literature, culture and history at King’s. The Department is ranked within the top 10 French departments in the UK (The Times Good University Guide and The Complete University Guide 2013).