French Studies and History : BA Hons : RV11

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster’s joint French Studies and History degree is taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures in conjunction with the Department of History. French Studies is ranked 2nd in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 and 7th in the Guardian University Guide 2017 for History.

Your French Studies programme gives you the opportunity to acquire high-level language skills while gaining a thorough understanding of the country’s historical, cultural, social and political background in a global context. In History, you will develop your critical abilities studying modules in British, European and American world history.

Your first year comprises an exploration of the French language and its cultural context as well as the core History module ‘From Medieval to Modern: History and Historians’. Alongside this, you can choose the History module ‘People, Places, and the Past’ or a minor subject from another department.

Building on your language skills in Year 2, you will study the culture, politics and history of the French-speaking world in more depth, as well as selecting modules which are international in scope and promote a comparative understanding of Europe and beyond. You will combine these with the core module, ‘The Nature and Practice of History’, and select options such as ‘A History of Paris, c. 1730 to the Present’ or ‘Three Colours, One Flag, One Empire: the French Colonial World, 1791-1962’.

Spending your third year abroad in a French-speaking country makes a major contribution to your command of the language, while deepening your intercultural sensitivity. You can study at a partner institution or conduct a work placement.

In your final year, you consolidate your French language skills, and study specialist culture and comparative modules, such as ‘Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century’.

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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

In a globalised world, foreign languages combined with a knowledge of international history and contemporary cultures are highly valued by employers. During your degree you will develop the ability to think critically, analyse evidence and structure an argument, as well as gaining rich interpersonal, intercultural, cognitive and transferable skills. These skills will open up a variety of careers such as working in museums and heritage, IT, business development, civil service, events management, finance, journalism, publishing, research and sales, as well as teaching and translating both in the UK and abroad.

For the last ten years, languages graduates from Lancaster have been in the top ten universities in the country in terms of their employment prospects. The Complete University Guide 2017 ranks French Studies 1st and History 11th in the UK for graduate prospects.

Many graduates continue their studies at Lancaster, making the most of our excellent postgraduate research facilities. We offer Masters degrees in Translation, Languages and Cultures, and History as well as PhD research degrees.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level AAB

Required Subjects A level French, or if this is to be studied from beginners’ level, AS grade B or A level grade B in another foreign language, or GCSE grade A or 7 in a foreign language. Native French speakers will not be accepted onto this scheme.

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • French Speaking
  • Politics
  • Modern History
  • History and Historians
  • French Studies
  • Oral Skills
  • Written Skills
  • French language
  • Legacy of History
  • Culture

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • From Ancient to Modern: History and Historians
    • Part I French Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
    • Part I French Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)

Optional

    • Brave New Worlds? Modernisms and Modernities
    • From Great War to Total War?
    • Reform, Rebellion and Reason: Britain, 1500-1800
    • The Fall of Rome
Year 2

Core

    • French Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • French Language: Oral skills (post-Beginners/CEFR: B1))
    • French Language: Written Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • French Language: Written Skills (post-Beginners/CEFR: B1)
    • Making History: Contexts, Sources and Publics
    • Second Year Programme for Academic Skills, Employability and International placement preparation
    • Shaping Contemporary France: Culture, Politics and the Legacy of History

Optional

    • A History of Paris, c. 1730 to the Present
    • Cross-cultural encounters in World Literatures
    • Economic and Social Change in France, Germany and Spain since 1945
    • Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain
    • Partisans and Collaborators: World War II in Occupied Europe
    • Professional Contexts for Modern Languages
    • Restless Nation: Germany in the 20th Century
    • Society on Screen: The Language of Film
    • Three Colours, One Flag, One Empire: the French Colonial World, 1791-1962
    • Understanding culture
Year 3

Core

    • Residence Abroad: intercultural and academic reflection
Year 4

Core

    • French Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
    • French Language: Written Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)

Optional

    • 'The Shock of the New': Modernity and the Modernisms of American Culture, 1877-1919
    • Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
    • Bede and his World, c.660-740
    • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
    • Francophone Voices: Literature and Film from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Canada
    • French Culture in the Digital Age
    • Full Unit Dissertation
    • Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
    • La nouvelle histoire: Twentieth-Century Historiography in France and Beyond
    • Love, religion and society in the 18th century French novel
    • Modernity of Forms and Forms of Modernity in French Literature 1850-2000
    • The Prosecution of 'Otherness' in Europe: Witchcraft, Heresy and Inquisition (14th -17th C)
    • The Third Reich and Film
    • Translation as a Cultural Practice
    • Writing in the margins: narrating cross-cultural experience

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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Overseas Fee - £15,680

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French Studies and History : BA Hons : RV11

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