B.A. French and Computing (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.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

• Computer Systems
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
• Further Object-Oriented Programming
• Databases and the Web
• Human Computer Interaction
• 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

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

• Software Engineering
• Short Narrative Fiction in French
• Paris: Myth and Reality in the 19th century
• Paris: Myth and Reality in the 20th century
• Occupation and Resistance in the French Novel
• Description of Modern French
• French: Second Year Extended Essay
• Memory and Childhood in 20th Century French Fiction
• Modern French Theatre

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Year abroad

You can spend all or part of your third year in a French speaking country. Typically this involves a year study abroad at a partner university, an assistantship in a French or French- Canadian school or a work placement.

We currently have exchange agreements with French universities in Avignon, Grenoble, Lille, Littoral, Lyon, Montpellier, Nice, Paris, Poitiers, Reims, with Canadian universities in Ottawa and Montréal, with the University of Namur in Belgium, and with Swiss universities in Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel. We normally visit you during your year abroad.

Possible modules may include:

• Year Abroad Module

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• Learning French: Business French
• Project
• Research Project
• Travels to Japan in Modern French Culture
• French: Final Year Dissertation
• Mothers and Daughters in Women's Writing
• The Reader and the Text
• Sociolinguistics of French
• Images of Monarchy in French Classical Tragedy
• Contemporary French Cinema
• Computing in the Classroom
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• Database Systems