French and Arabic BA

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In Exeter

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    Exeter

The University of Exeter featured in the UK’s top 10 in the past 3 years (The Times Good University Guide) and ranks in the top one per cent of universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education international rankings. We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research intensive universities; the UK’s equivalent to the Ivy League.

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Exeter (Devon)
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Prince Of Wales Road, EX4 4SB

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Course programme

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The modules are designed like building blocks, with modules at later stages building on the work of the preceding stage, helping you to progressively develop your academic skills. The 'level' of a module within these stages is designated by the first number in the module code. You will find that your work becomes more specialized as it becomes more advanced. The 4-year programme is studied in four stages, one for each year of study; the second year is spent in an Arabic speaking country. Each stage comprises 120 credits. 60 credits are taken in French and 60 credits in Arabic in each of Years 1, 3 and 4. In Year 2 (the year abroad) all 120 credits are taken in Arabic.

With the exception of the year abroad, modules have a credit rating of either 15 or 30 credits. The availability of all optional modules is subject to timetable and staffing constraints and to permission from the Director of Education and/or Head of Modern Languages.

Exceptionally, other arrangements may be approved by the relevant Director of Education and/or Head of Discipline. On the year abroad all students are required either to take a core module which tests language acquisition, intercultural competence and develops employability skills and environmental awareness.

Assessment marks obtained at Stage 1 do not contribute to the overall mark for the summative classification of the award, although 90 credits must be awarded for progression to Stage 2. The overall mark for the summative degree assessment is calculated from the marks for Years 2, 3 and 4, which are weighted in the ratio 1:2:4.

Credits at stage 1 must be successfully completed in order to proceed to Year 2, but marks gained at this stage play no further part in the final assessment. Final assessment is based on marks gained in Years 2, 3 and 4. In Modern Languages, double weighting is given to Year 4 (i.e. Year 2 credits are weighted at 50% of their value, Year 4 at 100%). In order to correct the imbalance in credits between the two Colleges arising from the year abroad, each College calculates its weighted average and percentage distribution of credits, and classification is based on the average of the two averages and the aggregate of the credit percentages.

University regulations allow students to fail up to 30 credits per stage, provided that an average of at least 40% has been achieved over the 120 credits of assessment for a stage, including the marks for any failed and condoned modules. However, modules marked with an asterisk below are 'non-condonable', that is, if failed the failed assessment(s) must be retaken, for a maximum possible mark of 40%. If failed at a second attempt the Board of Studies will make a recommendation which can include repeating the year, progressing to the next year and either retaking the failed module(s) or taking (a) substitute module(s) in addition to the 120 credits for the following stage, or withdrawing from the programme.

Year 1 Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits MLF1001French Language 30 ARA1033Elementary Arabic Language 60 Optional modules

Select 30 credits of French Level 1 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits MLF1105An Introduction to French Thought15 MLF1119French Cinema from the New Wave to the Present Day15 MLF1121French Visual History15 MLF1014Love and Death in French Culture15 MLF1103The French Language, Present and Past15 MLF1015War and Conflict in French Literature15 Year 2

Students will spend the second year of their studies in an Arabic-speaking country.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits ARA2000Year Abroad120 Year 3 Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits MLF2001French Language, Written and Oral 30 ARA2139Intermediate Arabic Language II 30 Optional modules

Select 30 credits of French and Modern Languages Level 2 optional modules.

Select two 15-credit Arab and Islamic Studies Level 2 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits French MLF2003Freedom and French Realism15 MLF2012Evolution of the French Language15 MLF2029Varieties of French15 MLF2056Provoking Thoughts: French Literature and Philosophy from the Renaissance to the 20th Century15 MLF2063Crime and Punishment in French Fiction15 MLF2065Contemporary French Film: Issues and Debates15 MLF2066Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment15 MLF2067Gender and Resistance: Contemporary Women's Writing in French15 MLF2068 Telling Stories: Narrative Strategies in 19th- and 20th-century Fiction in French15 MLF2069East is East? Cross-Cultural Encounters in Medieval French Literature15 Modern Languages SML2209Music in Medieval Europe15 SML2244Multilingualism in Society15 Arab and Islamic Studies ARA2118Gender-Identity and Modernity in the Middle East15 ARA2121Themes in the Arabic Short Story15 ARA2131M.E.20C Colonialism Revolution and Beyond15 ARA2132Islamic Law and Society15 ARA2135Conflict and Peace making Palestine/Israel15 ARA2139Intermediate Arabic Language II 30 ARA2141Intermediate Persian15 ARA2144Reading Qur'anic Arabic 15 ARA2146Islamic Theological Traditions15 ARA2148Arabic for Beginners II 30 ARA2150Muslims in Britain15 ARA2151Intermediate Persian II15 ARA2152Persian Literature 15 ARA2160Islamic Movements: From the Muslim Brothers to Al-Qa'ida15 ARA2161The Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict15 ARA2162Political Economy of Development in the Middle East15 ARA2164Intermediate Turkish I15 ARA2165Intermediate Turkish II 15 ARA2166Revolution, Reform or Status Quo15 ARA2222Career Planning Workshops (Level 2)0 Year 4 Compulsory modules

Students must take either ARA3106 Dissertation or two 15-credit modules chosen from Arab and Islamic Studies Level 3 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits MLF3111Advanced French Language Skills30 ARA3103Advanced Arabic Language30 Choose either ARA3106 Dissertation or two 15-credit optional modules ARA3106Dissertation30 Optional modules

Select 30 credits of French and Modern Languages Level 3 optional modules.

Select two 15-credit Arab and Islamic Studies Level 3 optional modules (if you are NOT taking ARA3106).

CodeModuleCredits French MLF3034Sociolinguistics of French15 MLF3046Dialectology in France15 MLF3050Music, Poetry, and Society At the Late Medieval French Court15 MLF3053Looking Awry: Exploring the Unorthodox in Early Modern France15 MLF3056Cultural Observation in the Ancien Regime15 MLF3066Contemporary French Visual Culture15 MLF3069Writing Women and Strange Monsters15 MLF3070Diasporic Cinemas15 MLF3072Sex and the Text: Gender and Authority in Late Medieval France15 MLF3073Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu15 Modern Languages SML3012Law in Fiction15 SML3015Dissertation15 SML3017Language Contact15 SML3030Extended Dissertation30 SML3031Advanced Translation Skills15 SML3035The Fantastic in 19th and 20th Century Literature15 SML3036Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema15 SML3037Longing for an Audience: Medieval Troubadour Lyric15 Arab and Islamic Studies ARA3103Advanced Arabic Language 30 ARA3107Politics of Semi-democratic and Authoritarian Countries30 ARA3129Nationalisms in the Middle East15 ARA3136The History and Political Development of Iraq15 ARA3138Foundational Islamic Texts: Qur'an and Hadith15 ARA3144Advanced Persian Language I15 ARA3145Advanced Persian Language II15 ARA3146Iranian History, 1500 - the Present15 ARA3149Ethno-Politics: Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies15 ARA3152Folklore and Identity in the Middle East15 ARA3158Armed Islamist Movements: Jihadism and Beyond15 ARA3159The Orientalist Debate15 ARA3160Intermediate Arabic Language I30 ARA3161Islamic Art and Architecture15 ARA3162Britain in the Middle East, 1798-197715 ARA3163Politics and Reform in the Gulf15 ARA3185EU and US Democracy Promotion in the Middle East and North Africa30 ARA3186The History and Political Development of Iraq30

French and Arabic BA

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