BA English and French (4 years)
Bachelor's degree
In Southampton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Southampton
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Start date
September
Introducing your degree
A combined degree in English and French not only familiarises you with the key concepts of English, but allows you to develop your French language skills. You will spend a year abroad in a French-speaking country either as an English language assistant, studying on a university course, or on an approved work placement. Graduates of this degree course have progressed to high-flying jobs in fashion, journalism, financial services, teaching, travel and tourism, and creative writing.
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Subjects
- English Language
- Credit
- English
- University
- Writing
Course programme
Year 1
The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.
You will choose four modules each semester. You should take at least on English module in semester one, and two English modules in semester two. One module in each semester will normally be your French language course.
French:
You will normally choose one optional modern language module in each semester. However, you may opt to take a single module in an alternative subject in semester two.
Semester One
Compulsory language module:
FREN9010 French Language Stage 4
LANG1017
Academic Skills for ML students
OptionalENGL1004Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Poetic Language
ENGL1085Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Multimedia Old English: Song, Skin and Cyberspace
ENGL1086Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The Act of the Essay
ENGL1089Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The Novel
FREN1001Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Modern French Culture
FREN1016Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The Making of Modern French
FREN1017Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
Semester Two
Compulsory language module:
FREN9010 French Language Stage 4
ENGL1079Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Stage and Screen: An Introduction
ENGL1080Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Literary Transformations
ENGL1087Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Group Research Project
ENGL1090Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Theory & Criticism
LANG1004Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Reading Culture
LANG1013Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Reading the City
LING1001Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning
LING1003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Applications of Linguistics
Year 2
The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.
English:
Students should normally choose three (one double and two single) optional English units (ENGL) in the year.
French:
Students should normally choose one optional Modern Languages unit in each semester (FREN / LING / LANG / FILM2007). You must choose at least one FREN unit in the year. FILM2007 may count as a FREN unit.
LANG2010 is a compulsory fifth module for all second year students taking a Modern Languages degree, whether single or joint honours.
You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15 credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English, the other the equivalent credits in French.
Semester One
Compulsory language module:
FREN9011 French Language Stage 5
LANG2010
Managing Research and Learning
OptionalENGL2005Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Romanticism
ENGL2027Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Children's Literature
ENGL2011Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Women, Writing and Modernity in Britain, 1790 - 1865
ENGL2012Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Jewish Fictions
ENGL2029Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Modern Drama Since the Second World War
ENGL2046Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Images of Africa in Literature and Culture
ENGL2051Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Objects of Desire
ENGL2073Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Visions of Beowulf: new encounters with Anglo-Saxon culture
ENGL2077Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Money and Meaning in American Fiction
ENGL2080Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England
ENGL2083Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Tales of Travel c.1000-1650: Idylls, Utopias, Monsters, and Cannibals
ENGL2085Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The Enlightenment Body
ENGL2091Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
From Black and White to Colour: A Screen History of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-War Britain
ENGL2092Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Women Writers Remixed ca. 1850-1915
ENGL2094Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Victorian Feelings
FREN2008Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Post-War French Thought
FREN2018Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Exploring French Linguistics
FILM2019Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Women and Hollywood
PHIL1019Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Puzzles about Art and Literature
LANG2002Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Globalisation: Culture, Language and The Nation State
LANG2005Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
LING2002Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Psycholinguistics
LING2003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Syntax: Studying Language Structure
LING2004Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Discourse Analysis
LING2008Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Sound and Voice (see also ISVR2016: Speech Sciences and Lip-Reading)
Semester Two
Compulsory language module:
FREN9011 French Language Stage 5
ENGL2001Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Modern American Poetry
ENGL2010Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
ENGL2011Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Women, Writing and Modernity in Britain, 1790 - 1865
ENGL2052Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Images of Women
ENGL2061Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The Nineteenth-Century Novel
ENGL2063Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Problems in Shakespeare: text, print and performance
ENGL2075Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories
ENGL2076Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Creative Writing after Modernism
ENGL2078Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Scriptwriting
ENGL2079Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Contemporary Women's Writing
ENGL2085Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The Enlightenment Body
ENGL2089Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Poems, Books and Anthologies
ENGL2093Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Contemporary Fiction and Visual Culture
ENGL2095Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Patriots and Cosmopolitans: African modes of belonging
ENGL2096Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Making New York Modern
ENGL2097Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Arthurian Worlds
PHIL2001Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Aesthetics
FREN2007Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in France
FREN2021Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Identities in Crisis: Post-war French Literature and Film
LANG2009Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The EU and European Identity
LING2007Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
LING2009Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Multilingualism
HUMA2007Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Humanities University Ambassadors Scheme (Modern Languages)
Year 3
The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.
You will spend the year abroad in a country where French is spoken, either as:
- an English language assistant
- studying on a university course
- on an approved work placement
Investigative Project:
Independent study project (6,000 words) supervised by a member of staff
Further information:
Year abroad
Year 4
English:
If you wish to do an English dissertation in semester two, you will normally take EITHER two single English modules OR one double English module in semester one. If you do not wish to take an English dissertation, you will normally choose one double English module in semester one and two single English modules in semester two.
French:
You will normally choose one optional Modern Languages unit in each semester (FREN / LING / LANG / FILM3008). You must choose at least one FREN unit in the year. FILM3008 may count as a FREN unit.
You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15 credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English; the other the equivalent credits in French.
Semester One
Compulsory language module:
FREN9013 French Language Stage 7
ENGL3003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Rakes and Libertines
ENGL3004Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Writing the Novel
ENGL3015Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Fantasy Film and Fiction
ENGL3039Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Sweatshops, Sex Workers and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation
ENGL3047Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Literature and Visual Culture from the Middle East
ENGL3053Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Chaucer and his World
ENGL3056Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Victorian Bestsellers
ENGL3062Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS)
Additional information
BA English and French (4 years)