FRENCH

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

None. (Not open to students qualified for FR 1007).

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 1007.

Overview

This is an intensive language course intended for students who have little or no previous knowledge of French. It concentrates on the acquisition of basic grammar and vocabulary, and on the development of writing, reading, speaking and listening skills. In addition to the four weekly classes, students follow a programme of private study (1 hour per week) in the Language Centre.
4 tutorials per week.
1 two-hour written examination (80%) and continuous assessment: 4 linguistic exercises (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr G Hesketh

Pre-requisites

Higher or A level or SYS in French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 1006.

Overview

The course will develop the receptive and productive language skills through weekly classes which will focus respectively, on written language, aural language and oral language. In addition students will complete a programme of assignments in the Language Centre in their own time.
1 one-hour written language class, 1 one-hour aural language class, 1 one-hour oral language class.
1 two-hour written examination (66%) and 1 ninety minute aural/oral examination (34%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work covering a range of linguistic skills will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

This course is intended for beginners intending to proceed with French Studies beyond level 1. It will offer a study of modern France through the medium of texts in French and an introduction to reading literary and non-literary French texts.
2 one-hour tutorials/lectures per week.
1 two-hour written examination (100%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

FR 1508 or Higher or A level or SYS in French.

Notes

When taken in the second year of study in conjunction with FR 2001, the Credit Points obtained from this course may be counted as Credit Points at level 2.

Overview

Study of a play, a novel, a film and extracts from the work of a poet, all from the 20th century. Introduction to the social and political history of 20th-century France.

2 hours per week: lecture, tutorial.
1 two-hour written examination (100%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

FR 1508 or Higher or A level or SYS in French.

Co-requisites

Advanced Introductory French Language 1B.

Notes

This course is available only to level 2 students following the degree programme in Two European Languages with Teacher Education.

Overview

Study of a play, a novel, a film and extracts from the work of a poet, all from the 20th century. Introduction to the social and political history of 20th-century France.
2 hours per week: lecture, tutorial.
Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

FR 1006. (Not open to students qualified for FR 1007, but special arrangements may be made for mature students).

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 1507.

Overview

This is a continuation of FR 1006 and aims to bring students up to a level of competence which will enable them to proceed to level 2 French. By the end of the course, students should be able to understand authentic spoken and written French, and to express themselves in speech and writing with a reasonable degree of facility and accuracy.
4 tutorials per week.
1 two-hour written examination (60%), 1 oral examination (20%) and continuous assessment: 4 linguistic exercises (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr G Hesketh

Pre-requisites

FR 1007

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 1506.

Overview

Classes will follow the same pattern as in course FR 1007.
1 one-hour written language class, 1 one-hour aural language class, 1 one-hour oral language class.
1 two-hour written examination (66%) and 1 ninety minute aural/oral examination (34%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work covering a range of linguistic skills will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

This course is recommended for beginners intending to proceed with French Studies beyond level 1. It will offer a study of modern France through the medium of texts in French, and a selection of short stories.

2 one-hour tutorials/lectures per week.
1 two-hour written examination (100%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

FR 1009 or FR 1010 or Higher or A level or SYS in French.

Notes

When taken in the second year of study in conjunction with FR 2501, the Credit Points obtained from this course may be counted as Credit Points at level 2.

Overview

Study of two fictional works, a play and extracts from the work of a poet, all from the 20th century. Course of lectures dealing with literature and writing in their social and political context, from 1940 to the present day. Introduction to the French cinema from 1940 to the present day, including study of a film from this period.
2 hours per week: lecture, tutorial.
1 two-hour written examination (100%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

FR 1506

Overview

Three of the four hours will be identical to course FR 2002. The fourth hour will consist of grammar classes, dealing with areas not covered by previous courses.
4 one-hour tutorials per week.
1 two-hour written examination (75%) and 1 oral examination (25%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work covering a range of linguistic skills will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

FR 1507 or (for Accelerated Degree entry only) ‘A’ level at grade B or SYS at grade B in French.

Overview

Classes will develop language skills, both receptive (aural comprehension capacity through tuition based on audio and video material; reading comprehension through analysis of written French and translation into English), and productive (composition and letter-writing, translation into French). Classes on grammatical and linguistic analysis will contribute to the development of both sets of skills.
3 one-hour tutorials per week.
1 two-hour written examination (75%) and 1 oral examination (25%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work covering a range of linguistic skills will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

FR 1506

Notes

This course is available only to level 2 students following the degree programme in Three European Languages with 20th Century Culture.

Overview

The three taught hours will be identical to FR 2002. Additional grammatical skills will be developed through a programme of directed self-learning.


3 one-hour tutorials per week.
1 two-hour written examination paper (75%) and 1 oral examination (25%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work covering a range of linguistic skills will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

FR 1507 or (for Accelerated Degree entry only) ‘A’ level at grade B or SYS at grade B in French.

Notes

This course is available only to level 2 students following the Degree Programme in European Languages with Education.

Overview

Classes will develop language skills, both receptive (aural comprehension capacity through tuition based on audio and video material; reading comprehension through analysis of written French and translation into English), and productive (composition and letter-writing, translation into French). Classes on grammatical and linguistic analysis will contribute to the development of both sets of skills.
3 one-hour tutorials per week.
Continuous assessment (75%) and oral examination (25%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

FR 1506

Notes

This course is available only to level 2 students following the Degree Programme in Two European Languages with Teacher Education.

Overview

Three of the four hours will be identical to course FR 2002. The fourth hour will consist of grammar classes, dealing with areas not covered by previous courses.
4 one-hour tutorials per week.
Continuous assessment (75%) and oral examination (25%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

FR 1009 or FR 1509 or (for Accelerated Degree only) ‘A’ at Grade B, or SYS at Grade ‘B’, in French.

Overview

A course of lectures and tutorials studying the relationship between individual and nation in France, as this is revealed in works of literature and film and in key historical events. The course spans a number of different historical periods, and brings together literary and socio-cultural material.
1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.
1 two-hour written examination (100%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt students from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

FR 1009 or FR 1509 or (for Accelerated Degree only) ‘A’ at Grade B, or SYS at Grade ‘B’, in French.

Notes

This course is available only to Level 2 students following the degree programme in Two European Languages with Teacher Education.

Overview

A course of lectures and tutorials studying the relationship between individual and nation in France, as this is revealed in works of literature and film and in key historical events. The course spans a number of different historical periods, and brings together literary and socio-cultural material.
1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.
Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

FR 2001 or FR 2008

Overview

Three of the four hours will be identical to course FR 2502. The fourth hour will consist of grammar classes, intended to bring students to the same level as FR 2502 students.
4 one-hour tutorials per week.
1 two-hour written examination (75%) and 1 oral examination (25%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work covering a range of linguistic skills will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

FR 2002 or FR 2007

Overview

Classes will follow the same pattern as FR 2002 with similar emphasis on development of receptive and productive language skills. More classes will be devoted to aural comprehension by means of audio material.
3 one-hour tutorials per week.
1 two-hour written examination (75%) and 1 oral examination (25%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work covering a range of linguistic skills will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

FR 2005

Notes

This course is available only to level 2 students following the degree programme in Three European Languages with 20th Century Culture.

Overview

The three taught hours will be identical to FR 2502. Additional grammatical skills will be developed through performance of directed self-learning.
3 one-hour tutorials per week.
1 two-hour written examination (75%) and 1 oral examination (25%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work covering a range of linguistic skills will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

FR 1006 or FR 1509 or (for Accelerated Degree only) ‘A’ at Grade B, or SYS at Grade ‘B’ in French.

Overview

A course of lectures and tutorials studying the relationship between centre and periphery in France, as this is revealed in works of literature and film and in key historical events. The course spans a number of different historical periods, and brings together literary and socio-cultural material.

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.
1 two-hour written examination (100%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr G Hesketh

Pre-requisites

FR 1009 or FR 1509 or FR 1507 and EL 2003 or (for Accelerated Degree entry only) ‘A’ level at Grade ‘B’, or SYS at Grade B, in French.

Overview

The course, which aims at breadth rather than depth of coverage, will introduce students to all the major areas of linguistic study as they relate to the French language: pronunciation; sentence structure; words, meanings and dictionaries; French as a world language and French in use, in its social and historical context. Students will be encouraged to apply their theoretical knowledge to the practical analysis of examples of real French.
2 one-hour lecture/workshops per week.
1 two-hour written examination (100%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

FR 2501 or FR 2502

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

Language teaching falls into three broad areas, all of which complement each other and contribute to the student’s overall command of the French language. One class - taken by a native French speaker - focuses on oral communicative skills; another develops competence in the written language at a formal level, while the third concentrates on the practical applications of language, developing both written and spoken competence in a variety of different registers.
3 one-hour seminars per week.
1 written examination and 1 oral examination A satisfactory level of performance in coursework will exempt candidates (other than European Studies MA and European Management Studies MA students) from the examination.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders and Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

FR 2502 or FR 2501

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

Language teaching falls into 3 broad areas, all of which complement each other, and contribute to the student’s overall command of the French language. One class taken by a native French speaker focuses on oral communicative skills; another develops competence in the written language at a formal level, while the third concentrates on the practical applications of language, developing both written and spoken competence in a variety of different registers.
3 one-hour seminars per week.
1 written examination and 1 oral examination. A satisfactory level of performance in coursework will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr J Roach

Pre-requisites

Available only to Erasmus/Socrates students.

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

A range of source texts, including passages of journalism, fiction and poetry will be studied, and the translation issues which they pose will be examined. As well as direct translation, use will also be made of comparative translation, through discourse analysis. Essay writing will also develop an awareness of appropriate registers of language.
1 or 2 one-hour seminars per week
1 written examination paper (80%), 1 oral examination (20%). A satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt candidates from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

Available only to students year 3 with a knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4033 (The Middle Ages in France B). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course studies a selection of short French texts written between 1150 and 1300. These cover a range of different genres, including narrative verse, lyric poetry, courtly romance and early drama, and they illustrate contrasting values and contrasting attitudes to the role of man and women in the society of the period. The background of the period is also studied, covering such topics as the production and reception of medieval, as opposed to modern, texts; feudalism; courtly love.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr G Hesketh

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4034 (The History and Structure of French Language B). It will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course, which builds on the foundation laid in FR 2507/FR 2510, offers an introduction to French linguistics in, so far as possible, a non-technical way. Three major areas are explored: language and society, aspects of grammar; words and meanings. Each of these areas is considered from two points of view: first, that of the overall structure of contemporary French, which will occupy the majority of class time; second that of the historical developments in each area (generally from around 1650), which have made the language what it is today.
2 one-hour meetings per week
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4035 (The Renaissance in France B). It will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course aims to help students achieve an understanding and appreciation of a number of French literary works of the sixteenth century, within the broader context of the European Renaissance. Prose fiction of Rabelais is studied together with the work of a major sixteenth-century French poet. Some non-French writing of the period is also studied (in English translation), as well as topics such as the renewal of interest in classical antiquity, the development of printing and social change.
2 one-hour meetings per week
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4036 (French Emblem Literature B). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Emblem literature, with its combination of word and image, was popular across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for its usefulness both as a teaching tool and as a source of iconographic inspiration, but France was several decades ahead of the rest of Europe. The course will examine a selection of French emblem books, noting the rich diversity of practice, and analyse the ways in which they could be used a vehicles for social comment as well as for political or religious propaganda, and for practical purposes as pattern books for artists in other media such as embroidery, tapestry, painting, woodcarving.
2 one-hour meetings per week
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4037 (The Novel and Society in France B). It will be available in 2004/05 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will examine a selection of novels, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will focus on the different ways in which novels have represented the social realities of their period, including the relationship between the individual and society, social and political conflict, changing moral standards, and the role of historical forces.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4038 (Narrative Form in the French Novel B). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The syllabus will comprise five prose narratives written between 1660 and the present. It will include writings which lend themselves particularly well to narratological study, and will focus especially on ones whose narrative strategy involved a departure from current norms, or was to a significant degree experimental.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4039 (Inventing the Self : Literary Autobiography in Post-war France B). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Through the detailed study of selection of autobiographies from World War II to the present, this course will examine the way in which major French writers have adopted and transformed the autobiographical genre to pursue such questions as the relationship of life to art, the nature of memory, the unconscious, and the transformation of the self through time as well as through the very process of autobiographical writing.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4040 (Contemporary French Thought B). It will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will examine the development of French thought since the 1950s through the study of the writings of a number of important intellectual figures. In particular, we will look at the ways in which each of the writers questions and redefines a particular field of knowledge (such as linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, history or psycho-analysis).
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders and Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

May be taken only by Junior Honours candidates in French Studies (Single Honours).

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

Language teaching falls into 3 broad areas, all of which complement each other, and contribute to the student’s overall command of the French language. One class taken by a native French speaker, focuses on oral communicative skills, another develops competence in the written language at a formal level, while the third concentrates more on the practical application of language, developing both written and spoken competence in a variety of different registers. The Junior and Senior Honours Language courses form a continuum for which the final assessment is not made until the end of the Senior Honours year.
3 one-hour seminars per week.
French Honours language examinations. Any student who follows this course but decides not to proceed to level 4 will be examined by one written and one oral examination. In this case a satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt that student from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders and Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

May be taken only by Joint French Junior Honours students.

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

Language teaching falls into 3 broad areas, all of which complement each other, and contribute to the student’s overall command of the French language. One class taken by a native French speaker focuses on oral communicative skills; another develops competence in the written language at a formal level; while the third concentrates on the practical applications of language, developing both written and spoken competence in a variety of different registers. The Junior and Senior Honours language courses form a continuum for which the final assessment is not made until the end of the Senior Honours year.


An average of 3 one-hour seminars per fortnight. Any student who follows this course but decides not to proceed to level 4 will be examined by one written and one oral examination. In this case a satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt that student from the examination.
French Honours language examinations (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Co-requisites

Available only to Honours candidates in European Studies.

Overview

French language exercises.
Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Co-requisites

Available only to Honours candidates in European Studies.

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

French language exercises.
Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

FR 2502 or FR 2501

Co-requisites

FR 3022, FR 3023 or FR 3009. May be taken only by mode B Junior Honours candidates in French, studying in a French speaking country.

Overview

The course, open only to mode B Junior Honours students of French, fulfilling their residence requirements in a French speaking country, complements FR 3022, FR 3023 and FR 3009. An intensive programme of written and recorded language exercises is designed to develop written and spoken competence in a variety of different registers, including formal and informal. The Junior and Senior Honours Language courses form a continuum for which the final assessment is not made until the end of the Senior Honours year.
Required field work: regular submission of written and recorded material by correspondence.
French Honours language examinations (100%). Any student who follows this course but decides not to proceed to level 4 will be examined by one written and one oral examination. In this case a satisfactory level of performance in course work will exempt that student from the examination.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Pre-requisites

May only be taken by students in Programme Year 3 or above following the Degree Programme in Two European Languages with Teacher Education.

Overview

A dissertation of 7,500 words on a subject to be decided in consultation with the Head of Department, to be researched and written during the second half session of the year abroad (Year 3).

Individual supervision.
Dissertation (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4533 (Literature and Society in Seventeenth-Century France B). It will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Students will study the literature of the period in its social and historical context. Topics dealt with will include drama, the literary theory of classicism and the intellectual, social, political and religious background to the writing of the time (absolutism, the decline of the nobility, Versailles, etc).
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4534 (French Poetry: 1850-1950 B). It will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Through the detailed study of a selection of French poetry from the period 1850-1950, the course will develop skills in the close reading of poetry. The course will also help students to develop an awareness of poetic techniques, of the major developments in poetic practice over the period in question.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr G Hesketh

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4535 (French Theatre B). It will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Students will initially participate in a series of discussions focused on central aspects of dramatic theory. Thereafter, some classes will be devoted to the study of a series of representative texts, either in print or on film, and others will take the form of seminars on more general topics.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4536 (French Cinema B). It will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

An introductory overview of the history of the French cinema will be followed by detailed study of a number of films. The introduction will stress the particular status of film as a serious art form in France, and the position of the French cinema in relation to that of the rest of Europe and Hollywood. It will study the cinema’s response to and reflection of the major historical events of the twentieth century in France. The detailed study will be organised chronologically, from the 1930s up to the 1980s, but will concentrate on the aesthetic and formal aspects of the films to be studied.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of graduating curriculum with FR 4537 (Francophone African Literature and Film B). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course will introduce students to the literature and cinema of Francophone Africa. After some general historical and social background, texts and films by individual authors and film directors will be studied, and there will be discussion of the general issues arising out of the films and texts taken separately, as well as the interrelation between them. The main themes will be: literature and cinema as historical documents; conditions of production, distribution (and exhibition); colonialism/ post-colonialism/neo-cocnialism; the language question; humour and political satire; and gender and the cinematic gaze.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders

Pre-requisites

May be taken only by Honours candidates in French.

Overview

A dissertation of 10,000 words on a subject to be decided in consultation with the Head of Department, to be researched and written (under supervision by a member of staff) in the second half session of Junior Honours.
Individual supervision over 12 weeks.
Dissertation (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

May be taken only by Single Senior Honours French students.

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

This seminar programme, taught over the whole session, covers a broad range of topics embracing cultural, aesthetic, philosophical and literary matters, as well as political and social ideas. Students are expected to research material for the seminars, present this material in an articulate and persuasive manner, and organise a follow up discussion. In this way the seminars will complement the level 4 language class, as well as the optional courses, and prepare students for the Composition paper.
1 two-hour seminar per fortnight.
1 three-hour composition paper in French.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders and Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

FR 3010 or FR 3041 or FR 3042 or FR 3028.

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

One class taken by a native French speaker focuses on oral communicative skills; another develops competence in the written language at a formal level; while the third concentrates on the practical applications of language, developing both written and spoken skills in a variety of different registers.
An average of 3 one-hour seminars per fortnight.
Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

40

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders and Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

FR 3041

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

Language teaching falls into 3 broad areas, all of which complement each other, and contribute to the student’s overall command of the French language. One class taken by a native French speaker focuses on oral communicative skills; another develops competence in the written language at a formal level; while the third concentrates on the practical applications of language, developing both written and spoken competence in a variety of different registers. The Junior and Senior Honours language courses form a continuum for which the final assessment is not made until the end of the Senior Honours Year.
3 one-hour seminars per week.
French Honours language examinations (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders and Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

FR 3042

Notes

This course is run over the full session. May be taken only by Joint Honours French students.

Overview

Language teaching falls into 3 broad areas, all of which complement each other, and contribute to the student’s overall command of the French language. One class taken by a native French speaker focuses on oral communicative skills; another develops competence in the written language at a formal level; while the third concentrates on the practical applications of language, developing both written and spoken competence in a variety of different registers. The Junior and Senior Honours language courses form a continuum for which the final assessment is not made until the end of the Senior Honours year.
An average of 3 one-hour seminars per fortnight.
French Honours language examinations (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

May be taken only by Joint Senior Honours French students.

Notes

Joint Honours students may take this course in EITHER half-session.

Overview

This seminar programme, taught over a half-session, covers a broad range of topics embracing cultural, aesthetic, philosophical and literary matters, as well as political and social ideas. Students are expected to research material for the seminars, present this material in an articulate and persuasive manner, and organise a follow up discussion. In this way the seminars will complement the level 4 language class, as well as the optional courses, and prepare students for the Composition paper.
1 two-hour seminar per fortnight.
1 three-hour composition paper in French (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3033 (The Middle Ages in France A). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course studies a selection of short French texts written between 1150 and 1300. These cover a range of different genres, including narrative verse, lyric poetry, courtly romance and early drama, and how they illustrate contrasting values and contrasting attitudes to the role of men and women in the society of the period. The background of the period is also studied, covering such topics as the production and reception of medieval, as opposed to modern, texts, feudalism; courtly love. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr G Hesketh

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 4034 (The History and Structure of the French Language B). It will be available in 2004/5 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course, which builds on the foundation laid in FR 2507/FR 2510, offers an introduction to French linguistics in, so far as possible, a non-technical way. Three major areas are explored: language and society, aspects of grammar; words and meanings. Each of these areas is considered from two points of view: first, that of the overall structure of contemporary French, which will occupy the majority of class time; second that of the historical developments in each area (generally from around 1650), which have made the language what it is today. Students will also have the opportunity to examine more general topics relating to French linguistics and linguistic methods. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3035 (The Renaissance in France A). It will be available in 2004/5 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course aims to help students achieve an understanding and appreciation of a number of French literary works of the sixteenth century, within the broader context of the European Renaissance. Prose fiction of Rabelais is studied together with the work of two major sixteenth-century French poets. Some non-French writing of the period is also studied (in English translation), as well as topics such as the renewal of interest in classical antiquity, the development of printing and social change. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Saunders

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3036 (French Emblem Literature A). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Emblem literature, with its combination of word and image, was popular across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for its usefulness both as a teaching tool and as a source of iconographic inspiration, but France was several decades ahead of the rest of Europe. The course will examine a selection of French emblem books, noting the rich diversity of practice, and analyse the ways in which they could be used as vehicles for social comment as well as for political or religious propaganda, and for practical purposes as pattern books for artists in other media such as embroidery, tapestry, painting, woodcarving. Some English emblems will also be studied. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3037 (The Novel and Society in France A). It will be available in 2004/5 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will examine a selection of novels, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will focus on the different ways in which novels have represented the social realities of their period, including the relationship between the individual and society, social and political conflict, changing moral standards, and the role of historical forces. It will also look at the authors’ varying conceptions of the novel’s place in society and the social functions that have been attributed to it. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3038 (Narrative Form in the French Novel A). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The syllabus will comprise six prose narratives written between 1660 and the present. It will include writings which lend themselves particularly well to narratological study, and will focus especially on ones whose narrative strategy involved a departure from current norms, or was to a significant degree experimental. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3039 (Inventing the Self: Literary Autobiography in Post-war France A). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Through the detailed study of a selection of autobiographies from World War II to the present, this course will examine the way in which major French writers have adopted and transformed the autobiographical genre to pursue such questions as the relationship of life to art, the nature of memory, the unconscious, and the transformations of the self through time as well as through the very process of autobiographical writing. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3040 (Contemporary French Thought A). It will be available in 2004/5 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will examine the development of French thought since the 1950s through the study of the writings of a number of important intellectual figures. In particular, we will look at the ways in which each of the writers question and redefines a particular field of knowledge (such as linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, history or psycho-analysis). In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr D Hartley

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3533 (Literature and Society in Seventeenth-Century France A). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Students will study the literature of the period in its social and historical context. Topics dealt with will include drama, the literary theory of classicism and the intellectual, social, political and religious background to the writing of the time (absolutism, the decline of the nobility, Versailles, etc). In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, and by synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr I Maclachlan

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3534 (French Poetry: 1850-1950 A). It will be available in 2004/5 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Through the detailed study of a selection of French poetry from the period 1850-1950, the course will develop skills in the close reading of poetry. The course will also help students to develop an awareness of poetic techniques, of the major developments in poetic practice over the period in question and of theoretical accounts of poetic discourse. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assessment (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr G Hesketh

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3535 (French Theatre A). It will be available in 2004/5 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Students will initially participate in a series of discussions focussed on central aspects of dramatic theory. Thereafter, some classes will be devoted to the study of a series of representative texts, either in print or on film, and others will take the form of seminars on more general topics. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by exploring areas (dramatists, directors, texts, periods, etc.) not covered on the syllabus by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jubb

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3536 (French Cinema A). It will be available in 2004/5 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

An introductory overview of the history of the French cinema will be followed by detailed study of a number of films. The introduction will stress the particular status of film as a serious art form in France, and the position of the French cinema in relation to that of the rest of Europe and Hollywood. It will study the cinema’s response to and reflection of the major historical events of the twentieth century in France. The detailed study will be organized chronologically, from the 1930s up to the 1980s, but will concentrate on the aesthetic and formal aspects of the films to be studied. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, studying additional films not covered by the syllabus, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Syrotinski

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 with a reading knowledge of French.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with FR 3537 (Francophone African Literature and Film A). It will be available in 2003/4 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course will introduce students to the literature and cinema of Francophone Africa. After some general historical and social background, texts and films by individual authors and film directors will be studied, and there will be discussion of the general issues arising out of the films and texts taken separately, as well as the interrelation between them. The main themes will be: literature and cinema as historical document; conditions of production, distribution (and exhibition); colonialism/ post-colonialism/neo-colonialism; the language question; humour and political satire; and gender and the cinematic gaze. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, taking account of additional films or texts, exploring the relations between them, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.
2 one-hour meetings per week.
Continuous assessment: two assignments (100%).