MA French and History
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 French and Francophone Studies and History, combining modern language learning with historical analysis. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students undertake a final-year undergraduate dissertation based on primary and secondary material, alongside options for a period of study or work experience abroad in a French-speaking country during the honours years.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Making History
- French Culture and Society: from Occupation to Decolonisation
- Beginners French Language 1
- Beginners French Language 2
- Qualified French Language 1
- Qualified French Language 2
- The Global City in Text and Film
- Revolution and Revolt in Modern and Contemporary France
- Decentering France: Social Movements and Cultural Transformation
- Advanced Introductory French Language 1
- Advanced Introductory French Language 2
- Advanced French Language 1
- Advanced French Language 2
- Junior Honours French Language
- Work Experience: Employability Skills Development
- Junior Honours Project 1
- History of Medicine (ME33HM)
- Architecture and Power
- Senior Honours French Language
- Dissertation in French
- History in Practice
- Undergraduate Dissertation in History
- Special Sub: Enlightenment Compared: Ireland, Scotland, Central Europe
- Special Sub.: Britain and Revolutionary Russia 1917 - 1924
- Special Sub: the Child as Subject in the British World
- Spec Sub: Court Society in Late Medieval Europe (C. 1300 – C. 1500)
- Special Sub:european Constitutional Monarchies in the Long 19thcentury
- Special Subject: History of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- Special Subject: Myths of the North