B.A. French and Politics

The first year is an introductory year. It is the results of the second, third and final years of study that determine your degree classification. The programme is made up of compulsory modules as well as optional modules, allowing you to tailor your degree to reflect your specific interests. A particular feature is the option of writing a dissertation in your final year. This is highly regarded by employers because it indicates that you can do original research.

You start by studying core Politics and French modules:

• Introduction to Government
• Introduction to Political Thought
• Contemporary French Language
• Modern France

Two further modules can be chosen from among Politics modules (see below) or modules from other subjects, such as Philosophy, History or English.

• Introduction to European Integration
• Introduction to International Relations
• Introduction to Political Science
• Introduction to Globalisation

In Year 2 you choose three Politics and three French modules. Please note that the lists of modules below are indicative only and that modules may vary from year to year.

• British Politics since 1945
• Influencing Public Policy
• Theory and Practice in Comparative Politics
• Politics and Policies of the EU
• Democracy in Crisis?
• International Security - Concepts and Issues
• International Law in a Changing World
• Global Justice
• Justice and Politics: Contemporary Political Theory
• Political Thought from Marx to Nietzsche
• Conducting Political Research
• O'r Groegiaid i Gymru: Athroniaeth Wleidyddol
• Credoau'r Cymry: Athroniaeth ac Athrawiaeth Gymraeg o'r Safbwynt Rhyngwladol

• French Language
• History of French Labour
• Business French I
• Business French II
• Borders & Identities in Post-War European Cinema
• Innovations in European Literature
• Revolt and Revolution in Sartre and Camus
• Principles of Translation Theory
• Introduction to Specialised Translation

You spend your third year degree in France or another francophone country studying at one of our partner universities, working as an English assistant in a school, or working for a French organisation. Your Year Abroad coordinator will keep in touch with you and monitor your progress.

The School has established academic links with universities in Caen, Chambéry, Limoges, Montpellier and Nantes. We also have exchanges with instituts d’études politiques in Bordeaux, Grenobles, Lyons, Paris, Rennes and Strasburg. Recently academic links have been set up with Mons in Belgium, Marie Haps in Brussels and Geneva in Switzerland. All students going on a Socrates exchange receive an Erasmus grant for each semester they spend in France.

As a teaching assistant on a scheme run by the British Council, you could go to a major city or to a small rural town. This option allows you to earn a salary sufficient to live on, although you only work on a part-time basis. There is also the option of a placement in a French organisation or company.

In your Final Year you choose three Politics and three French modules, including the option of doing a dissertation.

• Modern Welsh Politics
• Managing a difficult democracy
• Personality and power
• Elections in the UK
• Global Climate Politics
• Parliamentary Studies
• Justice and the Politics of International Law
• Conflict, Security and Development
• EU Security
• The European Mind in the 20th Century
• May 68. Marking Changes in European Politics and Culture
• Politics Dissertation
• International Relations Dissertation
• Cyfiawnder Byd-eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell
• Cenedlaetholdeb, Crefydd a Chyfiawnder: Hanes Athroniaeth yr 20fed Ganrif yng Nghymru

• French Language
• French Dissertation
• Student Language Ambassador (the opportunity to work in a school)
• French for professional purposes
• Film, Television and Radio: Multimedia adaptation of nineteenth century texts
• From East to West: at the roots of European Culture
• May ’68: Marking Changes in European Politics & Culture
• The Politics of Language and Translation
• Translation as a Profession
• Advanced Translation Practice
• Translation Dissertation/Project