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2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Modern Languages and Philosophy (French) For students entering from September 2024 onwards

Programme code:BAML/FR&PH-RUCAS code:
Duration:4 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Maria Chiara La Sala Contact address:m.c.lasala@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 480

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

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:

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

The programme will meet the QAA Benchmarks defined for Languages, Cultures and Societies outlined here:

https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/sbs/sbs-languages-cultures-and-societies-23.pdf?sfvrsn=3c71a881_10
The programme will meet the QAA Benchmarks defined for Philosophy outlined here
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-philosophy.pdf


Programme specification:

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme:

BA Modern Languages and Philosophy (French)

On this Joint Honours course, you'll combine Philosophy with your chosen language.

On the philosophy side of your degree, your first year will introduce you to topics such as moral philosophy and the history of western philosophy, and you will learn to construct and analyse philosophical arguments.

You will be expected to maintain a balance over a few key areas of philosophy such as value philosophy, the history of philosophy, or theoretical philosophy (such as theories of knowledge and being).
You will also be able to specialise in topics that interest you through optional modules such as feminist philosophy, ancient philosophy, continental philosophy, and philosophy of language. Some of these philosophy modules are undergoing revision, but the list below will give you a flavour of what is likely to be available on this course.

Whether you’re starting your language from beginners’ level, or with prior knowledge, you’ll reach a professional standard in your chosen language through intensive learning practice and year abroad. Depending on the language that you are studying, you will spend either Year 2 or Year 3 in a country where your chosen language is spoken.

If you are taking your language as a beginner, you'll focus on building up quickly your language skills through your compulsory language modules. If you're an advanced learner, your compulsory language module will allow you to consolidate and broaden your language skills.

You will complement your language studies by exploring the cultures and societies of the countries where your chosen language is spoken as well as other countries around the world, choosing from a range of topics, including literature, cinema, popular culture, history, and politics.

In your final year, you will be able to choose to take your Final Year Project either with philosophy or with your chosen language. Depending on your choice of Final Year Project, you'll also have the flexibility to choose from a range of more specialised philosophy or cultural modules to deepen your knowledge.

You can enhance your professional language skills through modules on translation, interpreting or languages for business.

Combining rigorous thinking with communication and professional skills, this degree prepares you for an international career in many sectors.


Year1 - View timetable

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

Compulsory modules:

Students will be required to study the following compulsory module

PHIL1260How To Do Philosophy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

Students will be required to study ONE of the following optional modules

MODL1100Politics, Culture and Society20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL1150Worlds of Literature20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL1401Discourse, Culture and Identity20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Students will be required to study at least ONE of the following modules:

PHIL1080The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL1090Knowledge, Self and Reality20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Route A
Students on the French A (post A-Level) route must take the following modules:

FREN1010French Language Awareness and Skills (Common European Framework B2)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN1020Introduction to French Studies (Resistance and Desire)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Route B
Students on the French B (ab initio) route must take all the following modules:

FREN1012French for Beginners (A1 of the CEFR)20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN1013Pre-Intermediate French (A2 of the CEFR)20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FREN1023Ab Initio Introduction to French Studies (Resistance and Desire)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Route A
Students taking FREN1010 may take up to 20 credits of the following lists of optional modules (from EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).
Basket 1

FREN1019Writing the self in French20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN1070Introduction to Skills in French Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Basket 2

PHIL1005The Mind10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL1007Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL1015Thinking About Race10 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL1022Philosophy Meets the World10 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Discovery modules:

Students taking FREN1010 may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules.


Year2 - View timetable

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

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for years 2 and 4 are not yet available. Before you enter years 2 and 4 details of modules for those years will be provided.

Optional modules:

Students will be required to study at least 40 credits and may study up to 60 credits from the following optional modules:

PHIL2615How Do You Know? Topics in Epistemology20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL2631God, Thought and the World: Topics in Philosophy of Religion20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL2906Do the Right Thing: Topics in Moral Philosophy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL2915How to Live Together: Topics in Political Philosophy20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL2925Reality Check: Topics in Metaphysics20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Route A
Students who took FREN1010 in Year 1 (post A-Level route) must take the following module:

FREN2010French Language in Contexts20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Route B
Students who took FREN1012 and FREN1013 (on the B/ab initio route) must take the following modules:

FREN2017French Language Skills (B1/B2 of the CEFR)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2210Forms of Subversion20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Route A
Students on the post A-Level route must take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:
- Self and Other (from 2025) - 20 credits

FREN2060Aspects of French History 1789-191420 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)
FREN2260Black Atlantic: African and Caribbean Culture in French20 creditsNot running in 202425
FREN2340Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French Fiction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Route A
Students on the Post A-level route may take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
- Translation and Interpreting in a Professional Context - 20 credits
- Introduction to Professional French - 20 Credits

FREN2200Cinema in France: The Seventh Art20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Route B
Students on the post B (ab initio) route may take a minimum of 20 credits from the following optional modules:

FREN1019Writing the self in French20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN1070Introduction to Skills in French Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2060Aspects of French History 1789-191420 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2200Cinema in France: The Seventh Art20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Students may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

MODL2001Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2015Black Europe20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2070Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2075Global Environmental Humanities20 creditsNot running in 202425
MODL2250Digital Communications Across Cultures20 creditsNot running in 202425

Discovery modules:

Students may choose to take 20 credits of discovery modules.


Year3 - View timetable

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

Compulsory modules:

Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules

MODL9500LCS Year Abroad120 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)


Year4 - View timetable

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

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for year 4 are not yet available. Before you enter year 4 full details of modules for that year will be provided.

Compulsory modules:

Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each subject. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects.

Students will be required to study the following compulsory module

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

Optional modules:

Students will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.

MODL3300Final Year Project: Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3340Final Year Project: Extended Translation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3350Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast)40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
PRHS3000Independent Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
PRHS3001Integrated Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Students who take their FYP in French are required to take a minimum of 40 credits from the following lists of optional modules (from EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).
Students who take their FYP in Philosophy may take up to 40 credits from the following lists of optional modules (from EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).

Basket 1

PHIL3310Philosophy of Sex and Relationships20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PHIL3723War, Terror and Justice20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Basket 2
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art - 20 credits

PHIL3125Continental Philosophy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3700Feminist Philosophy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PHIL3855Philosophical Issues in Technology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Students who take their FYP in Philosophy are required to take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules. Students who take their FYP in French may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules
- From Algiers to Paris and beyond: protest from below - 20 credits
- Global Storytelling in French - 20 credits
- Visual Culture - 20 credits

FREN3073Theory and Practice of Interpreting (French and English)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3093Iconic Images20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3094The Kaleidoscope: Cultural Perspectives on Contemporary France20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN3641The Algerian War of Independence: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial20 creditsNot running in 202425
FREN3865Paris in Revolt. The May 1968 events, past and present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Students may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules

MODL3200Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3410Contemporary World Literature20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3600Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption20 creditsNot running in 202425
MODL3610Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3620Decolonial Approaches20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3630Social Movements across Cultures20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL3650Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3800Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Discovery modules:

Students may choose to take 20 credits of discovery modules.

Last updated: 08/05/2024 16:03:21

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