BA Liberal Arts with French (with a year abroad)
Entry requirements
A level: AAA IB: 36 Points BTEC: D*DD
About this course
BA (Hons) Liberal Arts with French (with a year abroad), a liberal arts degree centred on interdisciplinary study across the arts and humanities combined with French language acquisition. Core topics include Data Analysis. The course includes a compulsory year abroad spent studying at a partner institution or completing a work placement or internship, and concludes with an independent study project. The first year introduces foundational concepts through Discovering the Humanities, Bridging the Humanities, and specific French language modules suited to beginner or advanced entry levels. Optional choices in the first year range from Prehistory to the Present to Introduction to Media Technologies. The second year progresses with Real World Humanities and advanced French language study, alongside optional topics such as Victorians: British Literature 1832-1901 and Linguistics as Data Science. The final year incorporates advanced language proficiency through French Language and Cultures: Proficient, alongside compulsory modules such as Translation: Methodology and Practice and an Independent Study in Languages and Cultures. Optional modules in the final year allow further study in areas like Theories of Social Justice: Rawls & Beyond, Marketing and Branding, and Climate Crisis Action Lab.
Modules
- Discovering the Humanities
- Bridging the Humanities
- Intensive French Language and Cultures: Beginner
- French Language and Cultures: Upper Intermediate
- Understanding French-speaking Cultures and Societies (ab initio)
- Understanding French-speaking Cultures and Societies (A-level)
- Prehistory to the Present
- Introduction to Archaeological Science
- Reading Now
- Theory Now
- Political Communities in World History
- Societies & Economies in World History
- Art History Now
- The Art of Looking
- Phonetics & Phonology
- Syntactic Structures
- Listen to This!: Critical Approaches to Music 1
- Analyse This! Critical Approaches to Music 2
- Power and Consent
- Metaphysics and Humans
- Histories and Politics of Theatre-Making
- Introduction to Media Technologies
- 'Real World' Humanities
- French Language and Cultures: Advanced
- Plurilingualism, Multilingualism and Transnational Languages: Concepts, Strategies & Approaches
- Laicité: Religious Freedom or State Repression?
- World Cinemas: Representing National and Transnational Societies and Cultures
- Issues in Archaeology and Heritage
- Interpreting Prehistory
- Victorians: British Literature 1832-1901
- American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
- The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
- Black Radicalism
- Art and Politics: Global Conceptualisms
- The Future is Still Female: Art and Feminism since the 1970s
- Linguistics as Data Science
- Foundations of Meaning
- History of Film Music
- The Social Power of Popular Music
- Politics and Freedom: Anarchism & Conservatism
- Philosophy of Mind
- Current Issues in the Creative Industries (BCI 2)
- Theatre Texts & Contexts
- Future of Food
- French Language and Cultures: Proficient
- Myths, Memories & the Legacy of the French Occupation (1940-44)
- World Cinemas: Representing National and Transnational Societies and Cultures
- Independent Study in Languages and Cultures
- Translation: Methodology and Practice
- Approaching Global Challenges: Archaeology and Heritage
- Special Topic: The Archaeology of Africa
- Special Topic: Human Evolution
- Borders, Bodies, Bridges: Migration & Racialisation in Modern Literature & Culture
- Literature & Ecology
- The Writer’s Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop
- Animals
- Empires
- Beauty
- Journeys, Histories and Methods of Display
- Surrealism: Art and Liberty
- Interwoven. Fashion and Clothing Communities in Art History (1800-the Present)
- English Place-names Across Time and Space
- Multimodality: Language and the Body
- Neurolinguistics: Language and the Brain
- The Musicology of Record Production
- Music in the Community
- History of African American Music
- Buddhism as Philosophy
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
- Theories of Social Justice: Rawls & Beyond
- Gaming: Industry & Culture
- The Future of Story: Storytelling in the Digital Age
- Current Issues in Film and Television
- Current Trends in Theatre: New Writing, New Practices, New Contexts
- Marketing and Branding
- Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
- Sustainability Clinic
- Sustainability and Policy: Research, Engage and Change
- Climate Crisis Action Lab