BA Film 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
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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Subjects
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- 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
FILM1001Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Introduction to Film I: Hollywood
OptionalFREN1001Credit[?] 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
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
FILM1002Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Introduction to Film II: European Cinema
FILM1027Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
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
FILM2003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Film Noir: Exile Filmmakers and 1940s Hollywood
FILM2013Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Technical and Creative Writing
FILM2015Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
British Contemporary Filmmakers
FILM2019Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Women and Hollywood
FILM2022Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Contemporary Chinese Cinema
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
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:
FREN9011French Language Stage 5
Students should choose ONE optional Film module
CompulsoryFILM2002Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929
OptionalFILM2020Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
World Cinema
FILM2023Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Animation: Techology, Culture and Industry
FILM2026Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
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
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
LANG3003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Dissertation
FILM3003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Film Dissertation
FILM3009Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Science Fiction Film after 1973
FILM3012Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Music in Film and Television
FILM3025Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
International Film Industry: Issues and Debates
FREN3024Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Flaubert's France
FREN3025Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
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).
Translation: Theory and Practice
LING3001Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Second Language Acquisition
LING3003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Advanced Syntax
LING3005Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Language Teaching Theory and Practice
Semester Two
Compulsory language module:
FREN9013 French Language Stage 7
LANG3003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Dissertation
FILM3003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Film Dissertation
FILM3006Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
American Cinema Since 1965
FILM3018Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema
FILM3024Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Horror on Film
FILM3027Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Television Studies: Key Issues and Debates
FREN3028Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Sex, Gender and Desire in French Literature and Culture
FREN3030Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
French Sociolinguistics: Challenges to Francophonie
LANG3006Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Public Service Interpreting
LANG3008Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Audiovisual Translation
LING3006Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Writing in a Second Language
Additional information
BA Film and French (4 years)