Course overview

English Studies and French offers you the opportunity to combine studies in French language with the literature and culture of both French and English. You will normally devote half of your time to each discipline. Core modules are followed by all students, and additional modules are selected from a variety of topics, including literature of all periods, critical theory, linguistics, culture and film.

Year one

In English Studies, you have a choice of three core modules from the areas of English language, modern English literature, medieval studies and drama. In French, you take the core language module, and can pursue a choice of introductory studies in reading French texts, contemporary France, French history or linguistics.

Year two

In English, you will choose core modules to develop your studies in at least two areas of the discipline. You will also have the opportunity to choose one literary period option, to explore how and why literature can be read in terms of an historical 'age' or 'epoch'. In French, a choice of French modules is available and your language studies will be consolidated and developed.

Year three

Year three is spent in France or a French-speaking country, on a programme of studies in a higher education institution, as an assistant in a school or on a work placement.

Year four

You choose from a wide range of modules enabling you to specialise in key areas of English Studies. Joint honours students enjoy the same wide range of final year options in English Studies as single honours. In French, you perfect your command of the language and its use in increasingly sophisticated contexts, and study optional modules.

By the end of the course

You will have developed a range of transferable skills including the ability to communicate effectively in both French and English, the ability to construct a logical argument, and to think independently. You will also have a sophisticated understanding of Anglophone and Francophone literatures. Your command of the French language will, moreover, allow you to work comfortably in a variety of complex linguistic environments and through your year abroad you will have demonstrated your independence and adaptability.

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