MA French and Italian
Entry requirements
A level: from AAA to ABB (required: a language other than English at B) IB: 34 points with 655 at HL
About this course
MA (Hons) in French and Italian, a French and Francophone Studies and Italian degree centred on modern European languages and their cultural contexts. The first year covers foundational topics through resistance and collaboration, the Fifth Republic, colonisation and decolonisation, and linguistics and language sciences. The second year examines thematic approaches through Cultural Responses to War, Migration, Exile, Diaspora, and Crime and Detection in Literature. The third year consists of a year abroad spent studying or working in destinations such as Bologna, Catania, Florence, Milan, Pisa, Rome, Siena, Verona, and Venice, completed either through study at a single institution, split across two different institutions, combined with work, or arranged independently with a private company or charity alongside established placement schemes. The final year advances specialisation through film, literature, history, and politics.
Modules
- resistance and collaboration
- the Fifth Republic
- colonisation and decolonisation
- May 1968
- feminism
- linguistics and language sciences
- business, economics and informatics
- politics, social policy, social anthropology and international relations
- art and architectural history
- history, classics and archaeology
- Celtic and Scottish ethnology
- philosophy, divinity and law
- Cultural Responses to War
- Migration, Exile, Diaspora
- Crime and Detection in Literature
- Gender and Culture
- The Coming-of-Age Narrative
- Introduction to European Cinema
- Dynamics of Language and Power
- Languages Beyond University
- Bologna
- Catania
- Florence
- Milan
- Pisa
- Rome
- Siena
- Verona
- Venice
- study in one or two destinations
- work in one or two destinations
- study in one destination and work in another
- two semesters at a single institution
- one semester at two different institutions (in different destinations)
- arrange to work or volunteer with a private company or charity
- apply to an established placement scheme, such as the British Council’s English Language Assistants programme
- Student Wellbeing Service
- Student Counselling
- Student Disability and Learning Support
- University emergency helpline (available 24 hours a day)
- film
- literature
- history
- politics