French with English with a year abroad

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

In your first year of study you will take modules totalling 90 credits in French and 30 credits in English.

You are required to take the following modules:

French:

• Core French Language (30 Credits)
• Introduction to French Literature (30 Credits)

English

There are no required modules in year one.

French:

You are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• French Narrative Texts: An Introduction (15 Credits)
• Text & Performance: An Introduction to French & Francophone Theatre & Film (15 Credits)
• Revolution & Reaction in Modern France: An Introduction to Modern French History (15 Credits)
• French Political Thought (15 Credits)

English:

You are required to take 30 credits from a range that may typically include:

• Language in Time (15 Credits)
• Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature (15 Credits)
• Introducing Literary Theories (15 Credits)
• Medieval Literary Culture (15 Credits)
• Renaissance Literature (15 Credits)
• Writing London (15 Credits)

In the second year you will take modules totalling 90 credits in French and 30 credits in English.

French

You are required to take:

• Core French Language (15 Credits)
• The Practice of Translation. (15 Credits)

English

There are no required modules in year two.

French

You are required to take 60 credits, including at least one early/tranhistorical module, from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Modern French History (15 credits)
• Death & Desire: Love in French Literature before 1700 (15 credits)
• The French Novel after 1700 (15 credits)
• French Poetry after 1800 (15 credits)
• Writing the Self in French Literature since 1700 (15 credits)
• Comedy in French Literature before 1700 (15 credits)
• The Idea of France (15 credits)
• Modernity and the City (15 credits)
• French Political Thought II (15 credits)
• Writing Africa: Anglophone, Francophone (15 credits)

English

You are also required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean England (15 credits)
• Cultural Encounters: Literature & Language in Anglo-Saxon England (15 credits)
• Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing (15 credits)
• First World War Literature (15 credits)
• History, Politics & the Elizabethan Imagination (15 credits)
• Rise of the Novel (15 credits)
• Performance in Medieval Culture (15 credits)
• Subjects of Desire in Medieval Religious Writings (15 credits)
• The Fin de Siecle (15 credits)
• Theatre Capital (15 credits)
• Victorians & Social Change 1840-1870 (15 credits)
• Prose Fiction (15 credits)
• Comedy & Identity (15 credits)
• Renaissance Wordplay (15 credits)
• Gender & Performance (15 credits)
• Medieval Science Fiction (15 credits)

Your third year of study will be spent abroad at one of our partner institutions which include:

• Université Lumière Lyon II
• Université Paris-Sorbonne
• Université Paris-Nanterre
• Aix-Marseille Université
• Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (Martinique)
• École Normale Supérieure (Paris)
• École Normale Supérieure (Lyon)
• Sciences Po (Paris)
• Sciences Po (Lyon)
• Université de Montréal
• Université Laval
• Université de Strasbourg
• Univesité de Poitiers
• Université de Genève

You may also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or undertake an internship/work placement in a French speaking environment.

4th Year

You are required to take 90 credits in French and 30 credits in English.

French

• French Language (Final Year) (15 credits)

English

There are no required English modules in Year 4.

In addition, you are required to take a further 75 credits from a range of optional modules, including at least one module on pre-1800 literature, which may typically include:

• The Stylistics of Translation (15 credits)
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Proust (15 credits)
• Images of Algeria (15 credits)
• Satire in Early Modern France* (15 credits)
• The French Revolution Effect: Italy, France, Germany, Greece (15 credits)
• Queer Sexuality in Pre-Modern French Literature* (15 credits)
• Sixteenth-century Encounters with the ‘New World’* (15 credits)
• Class & Conflict in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (15 credits)
• Contemporary women’s writing in French (15 credits)
• Citizenship & Exclusion: Republicanism & its discontents (15 credits)
• Politics & the Moving Image in post-1968 France (15 credits)
• Recent French Thought (15 credits)
• Shadows of Enlightenment* (15 credits)
• Québécois Fiction & Film across the Canadian Bicultural Divide (15 credits)
• Citizenship & Exclusion: Theories & Practices (15 credits)

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English

You will take modules totalling 30 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Autobiography & Modern Self-Representation (15 credits)
• Beowulf: Heroes & Other Monsters (15 credits)
• Culture, Gender and Power in the Court of Elizabeth I (15 credits)
• Creative Writing: Drama (15 credits)
• Critically Queer: Literature, Culture & Queer Theory (15 credits)
• James Joyce & Ulysses (15 credits)
• Jane Austen in Context (15 credits)
• Memory & Time in the 19th Century (15 credits)
• Performance Philosophy (15 credits)
• Victorians Abroad (15 credits)
• Shakespeare's London (15 credits)
• Modernist Short Story (15 credits)
• Literature and Media (15 credits)
• American West (15 credits)