French and History - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Nottingham

  • Duration

    4 Years

It enables you to shape your study according to your strengths, interests and career ambitions. Combining two subjects can give your degree an international or industry perspective that will make you stand out in the graduate employment market.

Our flexible curriculum has been designed to create some amazing opportunities for you. You have the opportunity to spend your third year studying at a partner university in France or working in a French-speaking country. It’s also possible to opt for a short work placement module in the second half of your second year.

By choosing History and French you’ll enjoy the freedom to choose from a wide range of modules, depending on your own preferences and interests. Many of our graduates are now pursuing exciting careers in different countries and regions around the world.

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Start date

Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
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Start date

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About this course

This is a major part of the curriculum. Key transferable skills are emphasised and there are opportunities to develop links with organisations and potential employers. As a result we have an outstanding record of graduate employment.

Joint honours courses develop a wide range of skills. These include written and oral communication skills, critical analysis and a variety of IT skills. But you’ll also become more self-motivated, be able to work independently and in teams, and develop excellent time management skills.

104 UCAS tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent, including A-level French grade C)
GCSEs - English and Maths grade C / 4.
If you are unsure whether the qualifications you have, or are currently studying for, meet the minimum entry requirements for this course, please contact us before submitting an application through UCAS.

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Subjects

  • Project
  • French Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • History
  • Film
  • Novel
  • Social Transformation
  • Life Work Project
  • Translation and Interpreting

Course programme

Year One
  • French Language One
  • Introduction to French Politics, Society and Culture
  • History: Practice and Purpose
  • Pathways Through Modernity
Year Two
  • French Language Two
  • The Historian's Craft
French optional modules
  • Film, Novel and Social Transformation in France (1950-1980)
  • Le Cas 68
  • Languages at Work
History optional modules
  • The Eagle and the Snake: Conquests and Colonisations of Mexico
  • Revolutionary Transformations: Russia and China in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Conflicts and Cultures in Mid-Victorian England 1850-1880
  • The Crusades
  • The Age of Reformations
  • Land of Liberty: History of the United States, 1815-2000
  • Heritage Matters
Year Three

In Year Three you can spend time working or studying in France. Our partner universities are found in Aix-en-Provence, Clermont-Ferrand, Lille, Strasbourg, Nice, Besançon, Montpellier, and Versailles.

Final Year
  • French Thematic Capstone Project
OR
  • Real Life Work Project
OR
  • History Dissertation
  • French Language Three
French optional modules
  • Contemporary France: Texts in Transition
  • La France et l’Europe
  • Translation and Interpreting
  • The Limits of Representation: Text and Image in French Culture and Society
History optional modules
  • Real-Life Work Project
  • Memory and Identities in European Writing, Cinema and Society
  • Crusading Cultures and Communities
  • Early Modern Revolution and War
  • Rustic and Rude: Rural Cultures 1840-1880
  • Living and Dying in Reformation Britain
  • Magna Carta: Origins, Impetus and Legacy
  • Museum Matters
  • The African American Experience in History and Memory
  • Mission Impossible? Converting the New World

French and History - BA (Hons)

Price on request