BA French and German
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB A level grade B is required for any advanced language you wish to study. See below for full information.. IB: 6,5,5 including 32 points total. See below for full information.. BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma: DDM, plus a B at A level in the required subject/s. See below for full information.
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in French and German BA, a French and Francophone Studies and German degree centred on language acquisition and cultural study. Core topics include Global & Comparative Perspective. The course includes a compulsory year abroad. The first year introduces foundational linguistic skills and cultural history through modules such as French Language 1 (Advanced), German Language 1 (Advanced), Exploring Identities in the French and Francophone world, and Nation, Democracy, Diversity in the German-speaking world. The second year develops proficiency further with intermediate and advanced language study alongside modules like Ideals and Ideas: The Making of Modern Germany and Global Enterprise Project. The final year incorporates advanced language modules such as French Language Final Year and German Language Final Year, alongside optional topics covering literature, cinema, and digital approaches. Students also complete a final-year independent study or extended independent study module.
Modules
- Discover: Personal, Academic and Professional Development in Modern Languages
- Exploring Identities in the French and Francophone world
- French Language 1 (Advanced)
- French Language 1 (Beginners)
- Nation, Democracy, Diversity in the German-speaking world
- German Language 1 (Advanced)
- German Language 1 (Beginners)
- Introduction to European Film A
- Introduction to European Film B
- Introduction to Linguistics A: Science of Language
- Introduction to Linguistics B: language change and variation
- Landmarks in European Literature A
- Landmarks in European Literature B
- Translation in Practice I
- Translation in Practice II
- La France Moderne A
- La France Moderne B
- Occupation, Liberation, Innovation: France and its people in film and writing A
- Creating Identities in the German-Speaking World A
- Creating Identities in the German-Speaking World B
- IWLP Arabic Level 1A
- IWLP Arabic Level 1B
- French Language 2(Intermediate)
- French Language 2 (Advanced)
- German Language 2 (Advanced)
- German Language 2 (Intermediate)
- Global French: Communities, Politics and International Relations
- Sources of Inspiration: Creativity and Adaptation through French Texts
- Ideals and Ideas: The Making of Modern Germany
- Obedience and Autonomy in German Culture and Thought
- 19th Century Russia through the Lens of the Novel
- Cross-Cultural Cinema: Film Adaptation beyond the Nation-State
- Cross-Cultural Cinema: Migration and Displacement
- Global Enterprise Project
- Language and power
- Teaching and Learning (languages) in the 21st century
- Work, The Future and You
- Translation in the Workplace
- IWLP Arabic Level 2A
- IWLP Arabic Level 2B
- Final Year Extended Independent Study Module in Modern Languages
- Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1
- French Language Final Year
- German Language Final Year
- Back to the Future – Hidden Histories and Utopian Possibilities, 1800-present
- Border Crossings: Word & Image in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Russophone Cultures
- Contemporary representations of the body: literature, theory and art
- Echoes of Colonialism and Imperialism Across Cultures
- From Text to Tech: Digital Approaches to Languages and Cultures
- Language, Culture and Communication: Digging into the text
- Narratives of Conquest and Incomprehension
- The Romance languages: structure, variation and change
- Translation and Creativity in the Digital Age I
- Translation and Creativity in the Digital Age II
- Uniformity and diversity in the Iberian-Romance speaking world
- Interpreting A
- Interpreting B
- Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
- Breaking New Ground: Innovative French Writing and Visual Culture
- Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures in the Francophone Worlds
- Discourses, Disciplines and Dissidence: The Construction of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France
- Franco-African Relations from de Gaulle to Macron (1944 to the present)
- Francophone Caribbean Literature and Film
- From Princesses to Poisoners: Gender, Identity and Society in Seventeenth-century French texts
- The Algerian War
- Seeing Differently: German-Language Cinema since 1960
- Sex, Seduction and Submission: Gender in German Literature from 1900 to Today
- War in Peace: Writing the First World War in Germany, 1918-1939