Course Content
Year 1
Language
You'll take core modules in French. These modules focus on developing your fluency, accuracy and communication expertise.
- French Language and Society I
- French Grammar
If you are taking French ab initio, you will follow an intensive, fast-track programme with more French.
- Ab Initio French Language Skills
- Ab Initio French Language and Society
- Ab Initio French Grammar
Linguistics
You'll take linguistics modules depending on your background in French.
- Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
- Introduction to Syntax
- Introduction to Sociolinguistics
- Introduction to Semantics
Year 2
Core modules
- French Language and Cultures: Advanced
- Foundations of Meaning
Option modules
You'll study further modules in languages and linguistics. You may also choose one Languages For All module or an elective module offered by another department.
You will study two further option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
- The Francophone World
- French Society On-screen
You'll also continue to deepen your theoretical knowledge in the core areas of linguistics that you choose to pursue. Second-year linguistics modules cover areas including phonetics and phonology, language variation and change, syntax, semantics, interaction, and psycholinguistics. In previous years, options have included:
- Intermediate Syntax
- Intermediate Phonetics & Phonology
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language 1
Year 3
Option modules
You will study six option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
French modules
- Translation: Methodology and Practice (French)
- French Society Onscreen
- France and the Second World War: Memory, Trauma and Identity
- French Language and Society III
- Independent Study in French
- French Language and Cultures: Proficient
Linguistics modules
- Forensic Phonetics
- Advanced Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
- Bilingualism
- Multimodality: Language and the Body
- Psycholinguistics
- Advanced Topics in Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics: Language and the Brain
- Forensic Linguistics
- Psycholinguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- Clinical Phonology
- The Structure of a Language: Modern Hebrew
- English Place-names across Time and Space
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
- You can also take a Languages For All module as one
