FRENCH STUDIES WITH INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE (BA): 4-YEAR, FULL-TIME

Birkbeck, University of London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Learning a language opens a door to another culture. Our BA French Studies with International Experience allows you to raise your French language competence to a high level of fluency and gain the linguistic skills needed for efficient negotiation with French speakers, combined with a critical appreciation of the cultural values that lie at the heart of French life. You will learn about literature, thought and film, and French politics and society, and enhance your skills, including translating, summary-writing, and delivering written and oral presentations.

The third year is normally spent at a partner institution in France or a French-speaking country to allow you to develop your language skills and your knowledge of the culture.

You can also apply for a three-year version of the programme without a year abroad, and you will normally also be able to transfer to this version of the programme during your first or second year of study if you decide you do not wish to study outside of the UK.

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Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Graduates can pursue careers in international organisations or businesses, education, translation, research or journalism. This degree may also be useful in becoming a translator, secondary school teacher, social researcher or journalist.

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

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Subjects

  • International
  • Writing
  • French Studies
  • French
  • Imagining

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

The programme consists of 12 modules of 30 credits each (or the equivalent including 15-credit modules), plus the year abroad which is worth 60 credits' Accredited Prior Learning, making a total of 420 credits. The modules are divided into three levels: Level 4 (introductory), Level 5 (intermediate) and Level 6 (honours).

In Years 1, 2 and 4 you will take 120 credits per year. If Year 3 (study abroad) is successfully completed you will be awarded 60 credits, which is a requirement if you are to be awarded a degree ‘with International Experience’.

This programme offers a great deal of flexibility, particularly in relation to the option modules you are able to choose. A typical set of modules, divided by year, might look like this:

YEAR 1
  • French 3
  • Imagining France: An Introduction to French Studies
  • The Twentieth Century: Key Themes in Comparative European History (Level 5)
  • Understanding Culture: Language and Texts
YEAR 2
  • Contemporary French Literature
  • Dreaming the Self: Enlightenment to Romanticism
  • French 4
  • French Cinema: History, Practice, Analysis
  • Reading the Signs: Text and Image in French Culture
YEAR 4
  • French 5
  • Sensibility and Sociability in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel
  • Translation from and into French
  • Writing the Self: Autobiographical Narratives in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Level 6)

Additional information

UCAS Code - R101 

FEES

Full-time home students, 3 years of study: £9250 pa
Full-time international students, 3 years of study: £14280 pa
Full-time home students, international year: £1385 pa
Full-time international students, international year: £2140 pa

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