B.Sc. Politics with French (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Guildford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Guildford

This combination is all about exploring ideas, language, politics and culture. It will shape your ability to understand and communicate complex ideas at a high level of fluency in both your own language and in French.

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Location

Start date

Guildford (Surrey)
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GU2 7XH

Start date

On request

About this course

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Subjects

  • Translation
  • International Relations
  • Politics
  • Teaching
  • English
  • International

Course programme

Course Content Module structure Year 1Major modules PoliticsIntegrative modules PoliticsMinor modules French
  • Introduction to Politics: Power and the State
  • Introduction to International Relations
  • Social & Political Thinkers from Machiavelli to Keynes
  • Social Politics and Policy
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • French Language I
  • French Language II
  • Contemporary France I
Year 2Major modules PoliticsIntegrative modules PoliticsMinor modules French

Compulsory module:

  • Them and Us: Comparative Government and Politics
  • Ideas & Conflicts in Social and Political Thought

Plus 30 credits from:

  • Theorising International Relations
  • Public Policy Analysis
  • European Integration & Disintegration
  • Political Organisations
  • Political Ideologies
  • Enhancing interdisciplinary skills

Compulsory modules:

  • French Language III
  • Contemporary France II

Plus 15 credits from:

  • Translation French to English II
  • Translation English to French II
Professional Training Placement (optional)

Professional Training placement year, taken as a professional work placement and / or period of study abroad. Your activities during this period will be relevant to your Major subject (unless otherwise stated).

  • Personal and Professional Development
  • Evaluation of Placement Learning
  • Transfer of Placement Learning
Year 3Major modules PoliticsMinor modules French

Compulsory:

  • Dissertation
  • Cosmopolitanism, Global Justice & Democracy

Plus 15 credits from:

  • Greening European Integration
  • Case Studies in Globalisation
  • American Foreign Policy
  • Negotiating Politics
  • British Politics: Prime Ministers, Parties and Parliament
  • Critical Terrorism Studies
  • Political Communication & Media
  • Language Diversity
  • French in a Business Environment
  • Translation French to English III
  • Interpreting (French - English)
  • Translation English to French III
  • French Sociolinguistics
  • The Arts in France

How you'll split your time

You'll find your lectures and tutorials extremely stimulating, but a Surrey degree is so much more than just your classroom learning.

The information below details some of the extra opportunities and advantages of becoming a Surrey student. Naturally, many of these will be defined by your choice of Major (such as where you spend your Professional Training placement), but don't forget that your Minor will also add a valuable dimension to your Surrey experience.

Teaching

The Department of Politics' outstanding and innovative teaching has been recognised with a number of awards and fellowships, including the Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award (Maxine David, 2012) and the Higher Education Academy Nano-teaching Award (Simon Usherwood, 2012).

The Department has been awarded a number of fellowships through initiatives promoting excellence in Professional Training and enhancing students’ experience through enquiry-rich approaches to develop negotiation-based learning (Simon Usherwood, 2007), to incorporate survey design in teaching political psychology and electoral behaviour (Tereza Capelos, 2008), to develop enquiry-based learning and to establish an enquiry-based learning group (Maxine David and Roberta Guerrina, 2008).

As part of the Teaching with New Technologies (TeNT) scheme – which encourages lecturers to experiment with emerging technology – the Department of Politics has received awards to work with interactive whiteboards (Simon Usherwood, 2007), to use Second Life to collect public opinion data (Tereza Capelos, 2008), to use social networking websites, and to develop a wiki for EU self-study (Roberta Guerrina and Maxine David, 2008).

Finally, we maintain an active involvement with social media as a tool for teaching and learning, and strive to apply innovative teaching methods through interactive learning, direct observation and simulation games. You benefit from inclusion in and engagement with research projects that our academic staff are currently undertaking.

Professional Training and placements

The distinguishing feature of our degree programmes is their applied nature. You are taught how to apply theoretical understandings of politics and international relations to world events and issues. Additionally, we equip students with the skills necessary to find a placement. The aim of our Professional Training placement year is to provide you with a chance to experience first-hand how politics operates in the ‘real world’, at a voluntary sector organisation, a government or local authority department, an MP or MEP’s office, or an international organisation.

Current and previous providers include Save the Children, IPSOS MORI, Cape Town Refugee Centre, Transport for London, GlaxoSmithKline, International School of Central Switzerland, and the Shadow Defence Secretary's Office, as well as a range of political parties (Conservative,Labour and the Socialist Workers Party).

B.Sc. Politics with French (Hons)

Price on request