Study Schemes

BA  French / English Literature [QR31]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 1  Timetable Core/Student Option

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1
FR19900

French Language Advanced

Semester 2
FR12910

Images of France: The French Family

FR19930

French Language Advanced

Year 1  Timetable Core/Student Option

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1
FR10920

Beginners French 1

Semester 2
FR11020

Beginners French 2

Year 1  Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Year 1  Options

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10700

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11100

Introduction to French Studies

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction to European Film

EL10720

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11120

Introduction to French Studies

Year 1  Options

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10700

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11100

Introduction to French Studies

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction to European Film

EL10720

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11120

Introduction to French Studies

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (30 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FR20100

French Language

Semester 2
FR20130

French Language

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2  Options

Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:

Semester 1
EL20500

Extended Essay Module

EL20700

Brazilian / Portuguese Language II

FR27020

Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries

FR27820

History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema

FR29110

"...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France

Semester 2
EL20510

Extended Essay Module

EL20720

Brazilian / Portuguese Language II

FR20310

Language of Business 1

FR21020

Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture

FR26120

Humour and Literature

Year 2  Options

You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN21620

Contemporary Queer Fiction

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Year 2  Options

You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

Year 3  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
ENS0000

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2
ENS0060

Abroad Year Credits

Year 3  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FRS0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2
FRS0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Final Year  Core (30 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FR30100

French Language

Semester 2
FR30130

French Language

Final Year  Options

Choose 60 credits

Semester 1
EN30000

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30520

Romantic Eroticism

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

Semester 2
EN30040

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

Final Year  Options

Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:

Semester 1
EL30100

Dissertation

EL30500

Extended Essay Module

EL30700

Brazilian / Portuguese Language III

FR30310

The Language of Business and Current Affairs

FR37020

Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries

FR37820

History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema

FR39110

"...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France

Semester 2
EL30120

Dissertation

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

EL30720

Brazilian / Portuguese Language III

FR31020

Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture

FR36120

Humour and Literature

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