Graduate Diploma in French Studies
This programme provides a one-year qualification in French Studies. It is designed
particularly to appeal to students who wish to take an MA with a French studies focus but
who require further training at undergraduate level before entering at postgraduate level. The
programme will allow students to work on French language skills and/or increase their
knowledge of the culture of French-speaking countries, as well as improving their research
and study skills.
Applicants will normally have a qualification at, or near, BA honours standard (usually in a
subject other than French or Modern Languages), and they will be expected to have
language skills equivalent to A-level plus two years.
In consultation with the programme director, you will choose modules to the value of 90
credits from those available at Level 6 in French (usually including the language module
French 5).
French Level 6 modules (worth 15 or 30 credits) include the following:
French 5
30
La Décolonisation française
15
Modern French Poetry
15
Molière
15
Reading Text and Image in the Eighteenth Century: Diderot and the
Tableau
15
Mémoire en français
30
Translation from and into French
30
For information about these
students/undergradstudy
modules
see:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/languages/current-
Up to 30 credits may be taken from our Department’s provision of ‘Culture’ modules. Culture
modules focus on the literatures and/or cultures of a number of different language-speaking
areas. In 2015-16, the following Culture module is offered at Level 6:
The Twentieth Century: Key Themes in Comparative European History
For information about this module see:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/languages/current-students/undergradstudy
30