BA French

Year 4

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of:

- being able to communicate fluently and appropriately, maintaining a high degree of grammatical accuracy, in French with native or other competent speakers;
- being able to demonstrate sophisticated receptive and productive language skills, and having had some practice in mediation language skills, in a variety of contexts;
- having consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures and registers of the French language;
- being able to demonstrate an awareness and understanding of one or more cultures and societies, other than their own, that will normally have been significantly enhanced by a period of residence in France;
- being able to demonstrate an ability critically to evaluate selected areas of French Studies such as the literatures, cultures, linguistic contexts, history, politics, social and economic structures of the societies of France and Francophone countries;
- being able effectively to communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of media, including undertaking extended pieces of work or projects, making appropriate use of primary sources and showing an awareness of recent research and scholarship in the field.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to French Studies, valuable for employment, eg be able to gather and critically evaluate information from a variety of paper, audio-visual and electronic sources, be able to use IT effectively both as a means of communication and as an aid to learning;
- skills necessary for the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways;
- skills necessary for the exercise of initiative, personal responsibility and decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating a broad knowledge base;
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material and is typically both evaluative and creative;
- evidence of the ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline.