BA History and French (with a year abroad)
Entry requirements
A level: For post-A Level French: AAB including History/Classical Civilisation and French For ab initio route (for students not taking French at Advanced Level): AAB including grade A in History or Classical Civilisation IB: For post-HL French: 35 points including 6,5 in History and French at Higher Level (either way round) For ab initio route (for students not taking French at Higher Level): 35 points including 6 in HL History BTEC: DDD with an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in either History or Classical Civilisation at grade A
About this course
BA (Hons) History and French (with a year abroad) is an undergraduate degree spanning French and Francophone Studies and History. Core topics include Research Methods. Students spend the third year abroad. The first year covers foundations through compulsory modules such as French Language and Cultures: Upper Intermediate, Knowledge and Beliefs in World History, Political Communities in World History, and Societies and Economies in World History. The second year introduces core study through French Language and Cultures: Advanced and Historical Thinking, alongside optional modules covering subjects like world cinemas, historical periods, and transnational societies. The final year involves advanced language study through French Language and Cultures: Proficient. Optional modules in the final year allow specialisation in areas such as translation, historical themes, and independent study projects, with an option to complete a History Dissertation.
Modules
- French Language and Cultures: Upper Intermediate
- Understanding French-speaking Cultures and Societies
- Intensive French Language and Cultures: Beginner
- Understanding French-speaking Cultures and Societies
- Understanding Language in the Real World
- Structure of English
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
- Evidence and Methods
- Political Communities in World History
- Societies and Economies in World History
- French Language and Cultures: Advanced
- Historical Thinking
- World Cinemas: Representing National and Transnational Societies and Cultures
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language I
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
- Plurilingualism, multilingualism and transnational languages: concepts, strategies and approaches
- Laicité: religious freedom or state repression?
- Empire and Cultural Exchange in Asia 1500-1700
- Black Radicalism
- Ancien Régime France, 1610-1789
- Before the Mongols: Nomadic Empires of Central Eurasia, 900-1200
- Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018
- Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- Health for all? International Health from Colonial Medicine to Covid Vaccine
- Powerful Impressions: Culture and Politics in the Post-1945 United States
- Heterosexual Africa? Sexuality, Power, and Politics in Africa since 1900
- Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain
- Catherine the Great
- Social Science and Modern Britain, c1880-c1970
- Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750
- Bankers, Merchants, and Poets: Florence and the Roots of the Renaissance
- Communist Europe: Crisis, Transformation & Memory after the Second World War
- Historical Fictions and Frictions: Fictionalising the Past
- Chivalry, Identity and Love 1350-1450
- Vikings and Historians: Historiographical Dialogues through the Ages
- The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
- Containing Multitudes: Inequality and the City in Britain and its Empire post-1800
- French Language and Cultures: Proficient
- History Dissertation
- Translation: Methodology and Practice
- World Cinemas: Representing National and Transnational Societies and Cultures
- Myths, Memories and the Legacy of the French Occupation (1940-44)
- Independent Study in Languages and Cultures
- Independent Study in Translation
- Empires
- Violence
- Animals
- Commemorations
- Travel
- Beauty
- Communisms
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth-Century Caribbean
- Divided Worlds: The British Empire, 1846-1961
- Imperial Japan, 1890-1950
- Popular Politics? The History of British Political Culture since 1945
- The French Wars of Religion
- Race, Place and Health in Britain and its Empire, 1880-1960
- Hong Kong: Decolonisation and Development, 1945-97
- Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
- Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830
- Rome Reborn: Culture and Society c.1575-c.1655
- Prussia and the Unification of Germany, 1815-1918
- Mao and Maoism
- Reading and Writing in Medieval England
- Exiled Lives: English Nuns in Catholic Europe, 1600-1800
- Poverty and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain
- Joan of Arc
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, & Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals
- Black British History and Decolonisation