BA English and French
Entry requirements
A level: Post A-level French ABB including A-level English and French. Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level French then AS-level French grade B would be acceptable in lieu of A-level French. For applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 33 points overall, including 6(French),6 (English),5 at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English and French and Francophone Studies. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. Students explore Anglo- and Francophone literatures and language across historical, cultural, and ideological contexts, examining linguistic structures and functions in both traditions.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to English Language
- French 1
- Beginners French Studies (Post GCSE Level)
- Beyond the Hexagon: French language, politics and culture in a global frame
- French 2
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Linguistic Variation in French
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- Paris, City of Modernity
- The Sociolinguistics of Modern French
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- America's Aftermaths
- Algeria and France: Trauma, Forgetting, Re-Membering
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Working and Studying Abroad
- International Placement: Languages Year Abroad
- French 3
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Televising the Victorians
- Language in the Media
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Contemporary Francophone Chinese Fiction
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Romance and Realism in Media Cultures
- Irish Gothic
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Extra-muros: language, film and literature in the banlieues
- Current Issues in French Linguistics
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now