Department of French
Modules open to Erasmus and Visiting Students 2014-2015
Modules open to full-year Erasmus and Visiting students
Senior Freshman
FR2008 Oral and Written French (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 3 hours p.w.
Content: B1 level course on French grammar and expression, written and oral
Assessment: 8 continuous assessment exercises; 1 x oral exam; 2 x 3-hour end
of year exams
FR2016 Literature (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Review course of French literature: Du Bellay, Molière, Corneille,
Flaubert, Sarraute
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
FR2018 Ideas into Politics (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Introduction to the history of ideas in France from the Renaissance to
the 20th century
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
FR2021 Linguistics (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Introduction to the varieties of the French language
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Junior Sophister
FR3006 Written Language Skills (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Résumé and Translation (French to English)
Assessment: 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
FR3027 Love and Desire in the Renaissance (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: The representation of love and desire in a number of key renaissance
texts
Assessment: 1 term essay
FR3029 Républiques, guerres et passions politiques: France since 1945 (5 ECTS,
MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Political history of France since WW2
Assessment: 1 term essay
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FR3031 Errances narratives: 18th-century French philosophical fiction (5 ECTS,
MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Contes philosophiques of Montesquieu, Voltaire and Didierot
Assessment: 1 term essay
FR3034 Literature at the Dawn of Theory (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: 20th-century literary theory
Assessment: 1 term essay
FR3035 Language, Society and Identity in the French-speaking world (5 ECTS,
MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: French sociolinguistics
Assessment: 1 term essay
FR3036 Madness and Poetry (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: The representation of madness in 20th-century French poetry
Assessment: 1 term essay
Senior Sophister
FR4032 Written Language (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Résumé and Translation (French to English and English to French)
Assessment: 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
FR4050 Business Translation (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Translation of business-related texts (English to French and French to
English)
Assessment: 1 x 2-hour end of MT exam; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
FR4037 Counter-Revolution (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: French fascism and extreme right politics from 1870-1945
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
FR4048 French Cinema (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Study work of some of the major French film makers/foreign directors
working in French of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
FR4029 Visions and Revisions of Enlightenment (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours
p.w.
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Content: Examine the intellectual and social practices of the Englightenment
through the study of a series of important eighteenth-century works.
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
FR4047 The Limits of Literature (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Destabilization and critique in the early twentieth century.
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Modules open to one-term Erasmus and Visiting students
Senior Freshman
FR2003 Oral and Written French (5 ECTS, MT) 3 hours p.w.
Content: B1 level course on French grammar and expression, written and oral
Assessment: 4 continuous assessment exercises; 1 x oral exam
FR2011 Oral and Written French (5 ECTS, HT) 3 hours p.w.
Content: B1 level course on French grammar and expression, written and oral
Assessment: 4 continuous assessment exercises; 1 x oral exam; 1 x 3-hour end
of year exam
Junior Sophister
FR3027 Love and Desire in the Renaissance (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: The representation of love and desire in a number of key renaissance
texts
Assessment: 1 term essay
FR3029 Républiques, guerres et passions politiques: France since 1945 (5 ECTS,
MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Political history of France since WW2
Assessment: 1 term essay
FR3031 Errances narratives: 18th-century French philosophical fiction (5 ECTS,
MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Contes philosophiques of Montesquieu, Voltaire and Didierot
Assessment: 1 term essay
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FR3034 Literature at the Dawn of Theory (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: 20th-century literary theory
Assessment: 1 term essay
FR3035 Language, Society and Identity in the French-speaking world (5 ECTS,
MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: French sociolinguistics
Assessment: 1 term essay
FR3036 Madness and Poetry (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: The representation of madness in 20th-century French poetry
Assessment: 1 term essay
Senior Sophister
FR4044 Written Language (5 ECTS, MT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Résumé and Translation (French to English and English to French)
Assessment: Continuous assessment exercises
FR4045 Written Language (5 ECTS, HT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Résumé and Translation French to English
Assessment: 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Notes:
1. All courses are subject to availability.
2. A maximum of two Erasmus/Visiting students will be accepted on FR4050
Business Translation
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