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2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA French and International Development

Programme code:BA-FREN&IDEVUCAS code:RLD2
Duration:4 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Ingo Cornils Contact address:i.cornils@leeds.ac.uk

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:

Programme specification:

The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.

General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.


Year1 - View timetable

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

In Level 1 students must study 120-125 credits. Students are required to take 40 credits in each of their two main subjects, a 20 credit cornerstone module and 20 credits of discovery modules. The discovery credits may take the form of either further modules in one or both main subjects or of one or more modules chosen from other subject areas.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

FREN1010Language Awareness and Skills
Pre-requisite for: FREN2010/15
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN1020Introduction to French Studies (Resistance and Desire)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL1100Politics, Culture and Society20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
PIED1201Global Development Challenges20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED1212Making of the Modern World20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

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

FREN1070Introduction to Skills in French Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

As part of your induction to academic work, and in order to provide you with additional support in key areas of your programme, students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to undertake the following 5-credit Study Skills module. This module resides above the required 120 credits students take in Level 1 and as such it is not compulsory, but it draws together key guidance that augments provision elsewhere.

MODL1500LCS Academic Essentials5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates will be required to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules


Year2 - View timetable

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

In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects. Of the remaining credits, 20 credits should be taken in one of the named subjects; the final 20 credits may be taken as discovery modules or in either of the named subjects.

In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

FREN2010French Language in Contexts
Pre-requisite for: FREN9001
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
PIED2201Development Approaches20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED2205Development Practice20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study between 20 and 60 credits from the following optional modules:

FREN2060Aspects of French History 1789-191420 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2080Laughter, Love and Chivalry: Society and Culture in the French Middle Ages20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2090Politics and Society in France since 194520 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2120The Foundations of Modern French Thought20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2160Francophone Africa20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2190The Age of Extremes: Culture, Crisis and Commitment between the Wars20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2200The Seventh Art - Cinema in France20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2240The French Language Today20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2260Black Atlantic: African and Caribbean Culture in French20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2280Culture and Society in Early Modern France20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2290The Short Form in French and Francophone Literature20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2320The Pleasures of French Poetry20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2330Francophone Africa and the Caribbean20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2340Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French Fiction20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2350Introduction to Professional Translation and Interpreting20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2001Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

- Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their French options must take a minimum of 60 credits in French in level 2 including FREN2010.
- Not all modules will be available every year.

Candidates may choose to study one or more of the following optional modules:

PIED2220North-South Linkages20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED2301Politics and Policy in the EU20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED2403Comparative Politics of Pacific Asia20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED2448Politics of Contemporary China20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED2455State and Politics in Africa20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED2463United States Politics20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED2464United States Politics20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED2501Theories of International Relations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED2558Security Studies20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED2601Revolution and Reaction: Political Problems in the 20th Century20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED2602Justice, Community and Conflict20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED2721Approaches to Analysis20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.


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 required to study the following compulsory module:

FREN9001Year Abroad
Pre-requisite for: FREN3010
120 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)


Year4 - View timetable

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

In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects, plus at least 20-credits as a Final Year Project which can be taken in and count towards either subject. Any remaining credits can be taken in either of the named subjects or as discovery modules. A maximum of 20 credits of discovery modules may be taken in level 3. Finalists may only take level 1 modules which are listed as discovery skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.

In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

FREN3010Advanced French Language Skills20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.

MODL3300Final Year Project: Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3310Final Year Project: Extended Essay20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3320Final Year Project: Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3340Final Year Project: Extended Translation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3350Final Year Project: Digital Documentary40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
PIED3750Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study between 20 and 60 credits from the following optional modules:

FREN3045Antiracism in France since 194520 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3070French Bilingual Liaison Interpreting20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3460The Art of Romance: Love, Marriage and Gender in Medieval France20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3480Twentieth Century French Literature and the Visual Arts20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3490Post-Holocaust Culture in France20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3585Camera Lucida: Theory, Practice and Writing of Photography20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FREN3591Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3611Francophone Cinema - Postcolonial Images20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3620Mémoires de guerre: France and the First World War20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3632Representing Empire20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN3641The Algerian War of Independence: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN3680The French Novel in the Nineteenth Century: From the Mill to the Mine20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3681The French Novel in the Nineteenth Century20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3691Representations of the City20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3711Francophone Voices - Textual and Cultural Analysis20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FREN3730French as a Professional Language20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3740Ecrire et s'écrire. Womens' Writing in France, 20th/21st Centuries20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3751Gender, Sex and Cinema in France20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FREN3770Theory and Practice in French-English Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3835Surrealism to Slam. Modern French Poetry and Protest20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN3840The Sublime and the Abject in French Literature and Thought20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3845The Sublime and the Abject in French Literature and Thought20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3860French Popular Culture20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3865Paris in Revolt. The May 1968 events, past and present20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3880Introduction to Professional Translation and Interpreting20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3800Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Please note:
- The following modules are mutually exclusive: FREN3070, FREN3730 and FREN3770. Candidates may only enrol on one of these modules.
- Students wishing to choose MODL3800 as one of their French options must take a minimum of 60 credits in French in the final year including FREN3010.
- Not all modules will be available every year.

Candidates will be required to study 20-60 credits from the following:

PIED3202Land, Fuel and Agriculture20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3207International Development and Social Policy20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3261Violence and Reconciliation in Africa20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits from the following optional modules (a minimum of 40 credits must be taken in total and 100 credits over years two and three). Please speak to your Programme Director if you are unsure as to whether your module choices form part of a coherent package.

PIED2402United States Politics and Foreign Policy20 creditsNot running in 201718
PIED2403Comparative Politics of Pacific Asia20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3158British Foreign Policy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3202Land, Fuel and Agriculture20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3206The Politics of Aid20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3261Violence and Reconciliation in Africa20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3302Extreme Right Parties in Contemporary Europe20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3310Britain and the EU20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3325Europe in the World20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3405Israel: Politics and Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3407Israel: Politics and Society20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3502The Responsibility to Protect and to Prosecute20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3503Crisis Diplomacy: Coercion, Sanctions and the Use of Force in International Relations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3505Dirty War: Insurgency, the State and Cities20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3565Terrorism: Concepts, Debates, Cases20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3603Political Psychology: on Authority and Obedience20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3606Machiavelli and the Making of Modernity20 creditsNot running in 201718
PIED3609Radical Political Ideas: Marx, Nietzsche, Schmitt, Foucault, Kristeva20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PIED3617Reimagining Politics: Gender, Race, and Popular Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PIED3810Video Games: Politics, Society and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.

Last updated: 11/08/2017

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