French and comparative literature ba (hons)

Structure

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4

Year 1

• Critical Thinking and Writing for Modern Foreign Languages
• French Foundations
• French I
• Introduction to Comparison
• Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts
• The Scene of Learning
• Understanding Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Theory

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• French II
• The Scene of Reading
• Translation into French

• Colonial Literatures, Post Colonial Perspectives
• Experiments in contemporary Women’s Writing
• Fairy Tales in the Modern World
• Homeward Bound: From the Odyssey to O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Literature and Philosophy
• Madness, Past and Present
• Memories of WWII in Literature, Film and Art
• Migration through Photography
• Photography and Narrative
• Why Belgium? Identities, Cultures, Narratives

• 20th century French Thought: Values and Violence
• Out of Place: Literature and Dislocation
• The Sounds of French
• The Story of my Life? French Autobiography and Autofiction

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

• Year abroad

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 4 Compulsory

• French III
• The Scene of Writing

• Comparative Literature Research Project
• Comparative Modernisms: the Case of China and India
• Constellations: Online Anthology Group Project
• Faust in Legend, Literature and the Arts
• First World War Literatures
• Grand Tours: 19th century Adventure Stories for Young Readers and their 20th century Afterlives
• Lost in Translation?
• On the Subject of Sex II: Queen to Queer
• Photography: The Self and its Image
• The East in the West

• Advanced Oral Competence in French
• French Feminist Writing
• Language and Society in the French-speaking World
• Lovers and Libertines: 18th century French Fiction
• Modern Languages Research Project
• Proust

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year abroad

You have three options for how to spend your year abroad:

• teaching English as a foreign language assistant
• attending university
• in the professional world, either on a work placement with our support, or independently with our approval.

Our French-speaking partner institutions are:

• Aix-Marseille d’Avignon Université
• Université de Genève
• Université Catholique de Lille
• Université Catholique de Louvain
• Université François Rabelais
• Université Paris-Sorbonne
• Université de la Réunion.