MA English and French (5 years)
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.
About this course
MA in English and French and Francophone Studies, combining literature with modern European culture. Core topics include Communication & Writing and Research Methods. Students spend a full academic year abroad studying in a French-speaking country.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Acts of Reading
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Beginners French Language 1
- Beginners French Language 2
- Introduction to Literature and Culture of Modern France 1
- Introduction to Literature and Culture of Modern France In Context
- Qualified French Language 1
- Qualified French Language 2
- Literature and Culture of Modern France 1
- Literature and Culture of Modern France in Context
- Rethinking Reading
- Controversial Classics
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- The Tragedy of Knowledge
- French Culture, Politics and Society i
- French Culture, Politics and Society II
- Advanced French Language 1
- Advanced French Language 2
- Advanced Introductory French Language 1
- Advanced Introductory French Language 2
- Junior Honours French Language
- Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
- Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
- Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
- American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
- Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL30YB)
- Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL30VC)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL30UT)
- Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
- Bildungsroman to Alien Invasion (EL35VB)
- Images Adequate to Our Predicament: Art for the Anthropocene (EL35ZF)
- Celtic Encounters: the Gaelic World in Irish and Scottish Literature
- Senior Honours French Language
- English Dissertation
- Dissertation in French