BA French and History RV11

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1 Core modules include:

• Advanced French (students with A level French) or Intermediate French language (students with an A at GCSE French)
• Directed Study in History
• Landmarks in History 1
• Landmarks in History 2
• Study Skills in History

Optional modules include:

• The making of modern France
• Introduction to French Culture
• Approaches to History

Comparative modules include:

• The Making of Modern Europe (1): Europe to 1945
• The Making of Modern Europe (2): Europe since 1945
• Greats of European Cinema
• Introduction to linguistics

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 2 Core modules include:

• Advanced French translation and language skills

Optional modules include:

• Introduction to the French Novel
• Introduction à la littérature de jeunesse
• French Literature Onscreen
• Period in Early Modern History: Cradle to Coffin: Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
• Period in Early Modern History: Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
• Period in Medieval History: Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
• Period in Medieval History: Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
• Period in Modern History: Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
• Period in Modern History: Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
• Power, Poverty and Protest: The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
• Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
• The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
• Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
• Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
• Introduction to Enlightenment
• Period in Early Modern History: Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
• Period in Medieval History: Women of the Medieval World
• Period in Modern History: American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
• Period in Modern History: Europe in the Twentieth Century
• Period in Modern History: Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
• ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages

Comparative modules include:

• Society, thought, and art in Modern Europe
• Unity, nationalism and regionalism in Europe
• Science, perversion, and dream in global fantastic literature
• Love in Medieval Renaissance

Please note that all modules are subject to change. Year 3

You can choose from three options for your third year: studying at a partner institution through the Erasmus+ programme, undertaking a work placement or working as a British Council language teaching assistant.

Our French partner institutions include universities in Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Rennes, Poitiers and Grenoble, as well as prestigious business schools such as Paris-Dauphine and Montpellier. The Department of Modern Languages and European Studies has a study abroad officer who can help you prepare for study at one of these universities.

You can also talk to the Department's specialist year abroad team, who can provide you with support in securing and preparing for a placement. Past students have carried out roles with companies such as Knight Frank, Hewlett Packard, PSA Peugeot and PwC.

The History Department ensures placement modules are incorporated into your core learning with "Public history in year two, as well as optional modules "Discovering archives" and "History education". "Discovering archives" allows you to experience 10 days in an archive such as the Berkshire Record or the University's Special Collections. The "History education" module offers training and two weeks’ classroom experience in local schools to students who are considering teaching as a career.

Year 4 Core modules include:

• Advanced French translation and language skills

Optional modules include:

• French Language for Management and Business
• The Legend of Tristan and Iseult
• La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
• The French Caribbean: Language, Literature and Identity
• Dissertation
• Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
• From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
• Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
• Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
• Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
• The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
• Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
• Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
• Discovering Archives and Collections
• European Case Studies (3)
• History Education
• Ireland and the English in the middle ages
• La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
• Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
• Political Extremism in Britain between the Wars
• Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
• Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
• The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
• The United States and the Cold War
• new Modern Topic

Comparative modules include:

• EU Case studies I
• EU Case studies II
• EU Case studies III
• Cinemas of the World
• 19th Century European Novel
• Language and Power

Please note that all modules are subject to change.