BA French and Portuguese
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 Portuguese BA, a French and Francophone Studies and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies degree centred on modern languages and cultural studies. Core topics include Global & Comparative Perspective. The first year covers language acquisition and cultural foundations through modules such as French Language 1 (Advanced), Portuguese Language 1 (Beginners): Boas-vindas!, Exploring Identities in the French and Francophone world, and Environment, Sustainability and Development in the Portuguese-speaking world. The second year builds proficiency with modules like French Language 2 (Advanced), Portuguese Language 2 (Intermediate): Vamos lá!, Global French: Communities, Politics and International Relations, and Cultural Industries: Creativity in Change. The final year involves advanced linguistic study and independent research through modules including French Language Final Year, Portuguese Language Final Year: Avante!, Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1, and Thinking Otherwise: Decolonial Approaches to Contemporary Thought and Culture.
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)
- Environment, Sustainability and Development in the Portuguese-speaking world
- Portuguese Language 1 (Beginners): Boas-vindas!
- 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
- French Language 2(Intermediate)
- French Language 2 (Advanced)
- Cultural Industries: Creativity in Change
- Portuguese Language 2 (Intermediate): Vamos lá!
- Global French: Communities, Politics and International Relations
- Sources of Inspiration: Creativity and Adaptation through French Texts
- 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
- Exploring Italian cities: texts and contexts
- Final Year Extended Independent Study Module in Modern Languages
- Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1
- French Language Final Year
- Portuguese Language Final Year: Avante!
- Thinking Otherwise: Decolonial Approaches to Contemporary Thought and Culture
- 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
- The Romance languages: structure, variation and change
- 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
- Translation and Creativity in the Digital Age I
- Translation and Creativity in the Digital Age II