BA Film and French (4 years)

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
Combining a degree with a language opens the doors to a spectrum of exciting careers the world over. This joint degree in Film and French features modules including; Modern French Culture, and Film Noir and Exile Filmmakers of 1940's Hollywood. The course is designed to provide students with a strong practical and theoretical understanding of filmmaking, as well as a fluency in the French language. The third year of this four year degree course is spent abroad in a French-speaking country.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • Credit
  • Cinema
  • Joint

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.

In each semester you will be required to follow four modules (a total of eight modules over the year). Two modules in each semester (or one double) will be taken in Film, the other two in each semester will taken in Modern Languages. One module in each semester will be your French language course.

Film:
One compulsory double module in each semester.

French:
Choose one optional Modern Languages module in each semester.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
FREN9010 French Language Stage 4

Compulsory

FILM1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Introduction to Film I: Hollywood

Optional

FREN1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Modern French Culture

FREN1016Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Making of Modern French

FREN1017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
FREN9010 French Language Stage 4

Optional

LANG1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Reading Culture

LANG1013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Reading the City

LING1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning

LING1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Applications of Linguistics

FILM1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Introduction to Film II: European Cinema

FILM1027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to Film: European Cinema

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.

Film:
Choose TWO optional FILM modules.

French:
Choose one optional Modern Languages module in each semester (FREN / LING / LANG / FILM2007). You must choose at least one FREN module in the year. One module in each semester will be your French language course.

LANG2010 is a compulsory fifth module for all second year students taking a Modern Languages degree, whether single or joint honours.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
FREN9011 French Language Stage 5

Optional

FILM2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Film Noir: Exile Filmmakers and 1940s Hollywood

FILM2013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Technical and Creative Writing

FILM2015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

British Contemporary Filmmakers

FILM2019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Women and Hollywood

FILM2022Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Contemporary Chinese Cinema

FREN2008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Post-War French Thought

FREN2018Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Exploring French Linguistics

LANG2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Globalisation: Culture, Language and The Nation State

LANG2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography

LING2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Psycholinguistics

LING2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Syntax: Studying Language Structure

LING2004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Discourse Analysis

LING2008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Sound and Voice (see also ISVR2016: Speech Sciences and Lip-Reading)

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
FREN9011French Language Stage 5

Students should choose ONE optional Film module

Compulsory

FILM2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929

Optional

FILM2020Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

World Cinema

FILM2023Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Animation: Techology, Culture and Industry

FILM2026Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday

FREN2007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in France

FREN2021Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Identities in Crisis: Post-war French Literature and Film

LANG2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The EU and European Identity

LING2007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

LING2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Multilingualism

Year 3

You will spend the year abroad in a country where one of the chosen languages 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

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.

Dissertation:
A Film or French dissertation is optional.

Film:
Choose one optional FILM module in each semester.

French:
Choose one optional Modern Languages module in each semester (FREN / LING / LANG / FILM3008). You must choose at least one FREN module in the year. FILM3008 may count as a FREN module. One module in each semester will be your French language course.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
FREN9013 French Language Stage 7

Optional

LANG3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Dissertation

FILM3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Film Dissertation

FILM3009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Science Fiction Film after 1973

FILM3012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Music in Film and Television

FILM3025Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

International Film Industry: Issues and Debates

FREN3024Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Flaubert's France

FREN3025Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

An ambivalent asylum: the histories and memories of refugees in early twentieth-century France

LANG3007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Translation: Theory and Practice

LING3001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Second Language Acquisition

LING3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Advanced Syntax

LING3005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Language Teaching Theory and Practice

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
FREN9013 French Language Stage 7

Optional

LANG3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Dissertation

FILM3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Film Dissertation

FILM3006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

American Cinema Since 1965

FILM3018Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema

FILM3024Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Horror on Film

FILM3027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Television Studies: Key Issues and Debates

FREN3028Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Sex, Gender and Desire in French Literature and Culture

FREN3030Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

French Sociolinguistics: Challenges to Francophonie

LANG3006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Public Service Interpreting

LANG3008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Audiovisual Translation

LING3006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Writing in a Second Language

Additional information

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BA Film and French (4 years)

£ 9,250 + VAT