MA French and History (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 French and Francophone Studies and History, offering a comprehensive exploration of language, culture, and historical developments over five years. Core topics include Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Communication & Writing, and Research Methods. Students complete a final-year dissertation project, alongside language training and thematic modules covering European and global history.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Making History
- Beginners French Language 1
- Beginners French Language 2
- Qualified French Language 1
- Qualified French Language 2
- French Culture and Society: from Occupation to Decolonisation
- 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
- Senior Honours French Language
- Architecture and Power
- History of Medicine (ME33HM)
- Painting in Tudor and Early Stuart England
- Senior Honours French Language
- Dissertation in French
- History in Practice
- Undergraduate Dissertation in History
- Special Sub: Enlightenment Compared: Ireland, Scotland, Central Europe
- Special Subject: History of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- 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 Sub.: Britain and Revolutionary Russia 1917 - 1924
- Special Subject: Myths of the North