B.A. Art History and French (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules. You may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Possible modules may include:

• Introduction to Contemporary Art
• Introduction to Contemporary Art
• Perspectives on the History of Photography
• Perspectives on the History of Photography
• Learning French 2A (Post GCSE)
• Learning French 2B (Post GCSE)
• Intensive French for Beginners
• Learning French 3 (Post A Level)
• Writer and Genre in France I
• Writer and Genre in France II
• Questions of French Cinema
• Twentieth Century France in Crisis
• French Drama: Love, Marriage and Politics (in translation)
• French Narratives: Love, Marriage and Politics (in translation)
• Texts and Contexts 1
• Texts and Contexts 2

Possible modules may include:

• Learning French 4
• Beauty in Theory, Culture and Contemporary Art
• Transatlantic Dialogues: British and Modern Art c.1900-1970
• From Warhol to Whiteread: Postmodernity & Visual Art Practice
• Classicism and Baroque
• Photographic History & Aesthetics 1: Realism in Theory and Practice
• Art & Film
• Abstraction & Construction in the 20th Century
• Visual Arts Writing
• Reading the Image
• Costume and Fashion
• Paris: Myth and Reality in the 19th century
• Paris: Myth and Reality in the 20th century
• Occupation and Resistance in the French Novel
• Memory and Childhood in 20th Century French Fiction
• Description of Modern French
• Modern French Theatre
• Short Narrative Fiction in French
• French Detective Fiction
• French: Second Year Extended Essay

You have the opportunity to spend a year studying or working in France, where you can improve your language skills and experience French art forms and culture first-hand. Past students in this programme have chosen to spend their Year Abroad working in art galleries in Paris. With the option of a dissertation in the final year, you may choose to focus on both Art History and French by writing about art forms observed during the year abroad.

Possible modules may include:

• Learning French 5
• Costume and Fashion
• Reading the Image
• Visual Arts Writing
• Transatlantic Dialogues: British and American Art c. 1900-1970
• Classicism and Baroque
• Independent Project
• Arts Internship
• From Warhol to Whiteread: Postmodernity & Visual Art Practice
• Art and Film
• Abstraction And Construction in 20th Century Art
• Beauty in Theory Culture & Contemporary Art
• Photographic History & Aesthetics 1: Realism in Theory and Practice
• French: Final Year Dissertation
• Contemporary French Cinema
• History of the French Language
• Travels to Japan in Modern French Culture
• Mothers and Daughters in Women's Writing
• The Reader and the Text
• Writing on Art: Text and Image in Modern French Culture
• Languages in the Classroom
• Desire in the Text: Romanticism to Decadence
• Crossing Borders: Travel in Modern French Writing
• Introduction to the History of Art