French Studies (Part-time with our Centre for Lifelong Learning)

Level 4 (first year of undergraduate study)

The degree consists of 120 Level 4 credits followed by a further 240 Honours Level credits over subsequent years. The degree will take a minimum of five and a maximum of ten years to complete. Please note that the French department offers modules only during the day.
The degree also requires you to reside in France or in an approved French-speaking country for a total of at least four weeks by the end of your second year and a further six weeks by the end of your degree. At Level 4, there are two core modules:

• French Language I
• The Story of France

Honours Level

At Honours Level you will have to take two more core modules:

• French Language II
• French Language III

Up to two of the remaining six modules can be taken in other departments. We also have a number of cross-school modules open to you. The modules you take in French Studies can be full year-long modules or half-weighted termly modules which gives you a maximum amount of choice.

An indicative list of the modules offered at Honours Level include:

• Modern Masterpieces
• French Women Writers from 1968 to the Present
• Bestsellers of the Nineteenth Century
• In the Family Way: Birth, sex, and Death in Seventeenth-Century French Culture and Texts
• Intellectual Interventions: Politics, Literature, and the Left during and after the Algerian War
• Colonial Memory
• France and the World since 1945
• Women and Madness in Nineteenth-Century French Writing
• The Medieval Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes
• Paris Hollywood: French Cinema remade in the USA
• Government and the Shaping of Culture in Contemporary France
• Postcolonial Literatures in French
• Literatures of the Great War
• Representations of the Holocaust
• Modern French Thinkers
• French Cinema