2016/17 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA French

Total credits: 485

Entry requirements:

For entry requirements for this course please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/coursefinder

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Language and Related Studies

Programme specification:

The programme will provide an environment that promotes our intention that students graduating from the Leeds French department should have developed the following:
- high quality linguistic skills in French (in oral and aural proficiency, in context-sensitive communicative skills, and in written language skills);
- familiarity with the diverse language varieties and cultures, both 'high' and 'low', of contemporary France;
- an understanding of the main issues of the past and future development of the country, and the important concerns of the present;
- a broad knowledge of the discipline of French Studies;
- specialist knowledge of aspects of French Studies;
- and the ability to undertake critical analysis of aspects of France and the Francophone world, their literature, language, history, society and culture, informed by the appropriate conceptual frameworks.

The distinctiveness of the Leeds French degree programmes compared with other Arts and Humanities programmes is therefore twofold. Firstly, given that the core rationale of the Leeds French programme is to further high-level knowledge of the language, history, society, culture, and literature of France and the French-speaking world, distinctiveness stems from the requirement laid upon students to acquire a high degree of intercultural competence. Secondly, the requirement to spend an extended period in a French-speaking country is manifestly a distinctive structural feature of the programme.

Distinctiveness at Leeds compared with other UK French degree programmes derives from the breadth and diversity of the option courses offered. This in turn reflects the size of the full-time established staff complement, which is among the largest in the UK. These options range from the possibility of study in medieval and Renaissance literature through to the new millennium, cultural studies, area studies, francophone studies, language studies and linguistics.

In addition to breadth, particular stress in Leeds is laid upon interdisciplinarity, which finds expression in synergies, not only between and within option courses, but also between language courses and option courses. These synergies in turn reflect the interrelatedness of teaching and research at Leeds. Examples of this are research in applied linguistics that feeds into the ongoing refinement of the language courses offered; and options at Levels 2 and 3 where teaching is informed by current staff research.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

- Modules FREN1010, FREN1020, FREN1041, FREN1042, FREN1061and FREN1062 are required for progression to Level 2 French Single Honours.
- Modules FREN1010 and FREN1020 are required for progression to Level 2 of any French programme.

Optional modules:

In addition, candidates may choose to take the following optional module:

Discovery modules:

- Candidates will be required to study up to 40 credits of discovery modules.
- Candidates may not take FLTU French modules.

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 60 and up to 100 credits including at least 20 credits from option group one.

Option Group One

Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 20 credits (but may choose more) from the following optional modules:

Option Group Two

Candidates may choose up to 80 credits from this module group to bring their total number of credits to the required 120 (including any discovery modules; see below).

Please note: not all modules are available every year

Discovery modules:

- Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules to bring their module total to the required 120 credits. No more than 20 of these credits may be level one modules.
- Candidates may choose to study FLTU2333 Introduction to Professional French, but no other FLTU-coded modules in French are suitable

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Candidates will spend the third year in France or a Francophone country.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be enrolled on the following module:

Year4 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 60 and up to 100 credits from the following optional modules:

Please note that the following modules are mutually exclusive: FREN3070, FREN3730 and FREN3770. Candidates may enrol on only one (of none) of these modules.

Please note: not all modules are available every year.

Discovery modules:

- Candidates may select up to 40 credits of discovery modules.
- A maximum of 20 of these credits can be Level 1 Special Skills Discovery (ske) modules.
- Candidates may choose to study FLTU2333 Introduction to Professional French, but no other FLTU-coded modules in French are suitable

Last updated: 20/04/2016

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