MA French and Philosophy
Entry requirements
A level: from AAA to AAB (required: a language other than English at B) IB: from 36 points with 665 at HL to 34 points with 655 at HL
About this course
MA (Hons) in French and Philosophy, a French and Francophone Studies and Philosophy degree exploring linguistic proficiency alongside historical and contemporary philosophical enquiry. The programme includes a compulsory third year spent abroad through study, work placements, or language assistant schemes. The first year covers introductory subjects such as resistance and collaboration, the Fifth Republic, colonisation and decolonisation, morality and value, and logic. The second year progresses to epistemology, metaphysics, Cultural Responses to War, and Migration, Exile, Diaspora. The third year consists of an international period abroad involving study or work across one or two destinations. The fourth year leads to final assessments and advanced study options.
Modules
- resistance and collaboration
- the Fifth Republic
- colonisation and decolonisation
- May 1968
- feminism
- morality and value
- the history of philosophy (Western and non-Western traditions)
- logic
- philosophy of science
- 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
- epistemology
- metaphysics
- philosophy of language
- philosophy of mind
- 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
- 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)