ObjectivesThe French and English course caters for those who prefer to learn more on the French than on the English side and who want, in particular, to benefit from a year spent studying or working in France.
Entry requirementsThere are different entry qualifications for each programme. Some programmes require you to have a certain amount of knowledge in a subject before you begin the degree programme – this is called a ‘subject requirement’. Other programmes do not have any specific subject requirements. All programmes will, however, expect you to have reached a certain standard in your education and will ask you to achieve certain grades in your examinations. Most programmes have a standard offer so that you know in advance what you are likely to need. Please note that even if you have the minimum entry qualifications, you are not necessarily guaranteed a place on the degree programme.
Academic titleBA French and English Literature
Course descriptionThis BA in French and English Literature involves the following modules.
Year 1
-French language
-Contemporary France: history, politics, literature
-French cinema: society, culture and history
-Languages of Literature
-Revisioning Shakespeare
-What Kind of Text is This?
Year 2
-French language
-Renaissance Texts & Cultures
-Modern Drama
-Romantics to Decadents
-Modernity & Cultural Crisis
-Writing America
-Film Narrative
-Literary Criticism & Theory
-Communications at Work
-Women's Writing
-Five wars and three republics: France 1870-1962
-Translation
-Introduction to the French novel (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
-The Crusades
-French cinema
-Twentieth century drama
Year 3
Year Abroad:
The choice of one of the following:
- studying at a French University
- working as a Teaching Assistant at a French school
- on a work placement with a French firm
Final Year
-French for Managers
-French Cinema
-Political leaders and groups in the French Revolution
-Seventeenth-century Tragedy
-Translation
-The French Caribbean
-Language, literature and identity
-Samuel Beckett
-France and Europe
-From Troy to Camelot: Medieval Romance
-Renaissance Women Writing
-The Roots of Gothic
-Victorian Sensation Novels
-Children's Literature
-American Poetry
-Jane Austen & the Courtship Novel
-The Literature of Science
-Contemporary Drama