BA French Studies and English Language

Description:
This degree is the ideal choice if you are interested in language, its uses and varieties, and if you are considering a career working with languages or as a language teacher in the UK or abroad. Students taking this combined degree can choose modules from French Studies in translation and French for Managers as well as ones focusing on aspects of the culture of other Francophone countries in the Caribbean and North Africa.  

Year 1

Compulsory modules:

In French Studies:
Written and Spoken French 

In English Language:
Sounds, Grammar and Meaning
English Language and Society

Optional modules:*

In French Studies, 1 module from:
Contemporary France
French Cinema
In English Language:
English Language in Use

Year 2

Compulsory Modules
In French Studies:
Written and Spoken French

In English Language:
English Grammar
English Phonology
Research Methods
Sociolinguistics

Optional Modules

In French Studies, 2 modules chosen from a list of topics including:
Translation
France in the Age of Revolutions
19th - 20th Century French novel
The Poet's Art: 16th - 19th Century French Poetry
French for Managers

In English Language, 1 module chosen from a list of topics including:
Child Language Development
Language and Gender
From Saxons to Shakespeare
Approaches to Spoken Discourse

Year 3 (spent abroad in a French-speaking country)

You will have the option to spend the year:
-studying at a French or French-speaking university (including Montreal or Quebec)
-OR as a teaching assistant at a French school
-OR on a work placement with a French firm

Compulsory modules:

Dissertation
French oral exam

Year 4

Compulsory modules

In French Studies:
Advanced Written and Spoken French

Optional Modules

In French, a choice of optional modules including:
France and Europe
Translation
The Algerian Novel
Literature of the Caribbean
French for Managers
French Cinema
Warriors and Heroes: the Medieval French Epic

In English Language, a choice of optional modules including:
Second Language Teaching and Learning
English in the World
Psycholinguistics

*Not all optional modules will necessarily be available every year.