PROGRAMME AIMS
The BA offers you the opportunity to study the French language from its origin to the present day; French literature; and the social, political and economic institutions of France. You’re expected to gain an outstanding facility in reading, writing and speaking
French, but also, and principally, a trained mind. In addition, you’ll develop the confidence which comes with appraising intellectual issues, articulating your own conclusions by developing an independent and enterprising spirit.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The BA consists of 11 units
Level 1
(four units):
Core unit:
Translation 1 (half unit)
AND Core Progression unit:
Written French 1 (full unit)
AND five half units:
Principles of textual analysis
Introduction to narrative
The linguistics of French 1
Crisis, nation, identity: perspectives on modern France
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Level 2
(four units):
Core unit:
Translation 2 (half unit)
AND Core Progression unit:
Written French 2 (full unit)
AND five half units:
Shaping fictions
Writing romance and desire
The linguistics of French 2
Culture and ideology
Staging the text
Level 3
(four units):
Three core half units of practical language work:
Written French 3
Spoken French 3
Advanced prose and translation 3
AND three half units chosen from:
The linguistics of French 3
French medieval literature
Literature of challenge: the French philosophes
Love and society in the modern French novel
Modern French dramatists
AND one full unit Special Subject chosen from:
Aspects of contemporary French
Rousseau
Baudelaire
Zola
Proust
Medieval Occitan
Objectives of the programme
You are not only expected to gain an outstanding facility in reading, writing and speaking French, but also (and principally) a trained mind. Thus, you will be exercising and refining your abilities to assemble information, to appraise it, and to articulate
your own conclusions by developing an independent and enterprising spirit.
The degree programme has a firm nucleus of practical work in the French language. Additionally, it covers historical and analytical study of the French language from its origin to the present day, the literature of France from the earliest texts to the
present and French social, political and economic institutions.