Course Content
Year 1
History
Core modules
You will take the following core modules:
- Evidence and Methods
- Group Research Project
- Societies and Economies in World History
French
- French Language and Society I
- French Grammar
In addition to the core French modules, you'll either choose a linguistics module, or you can opt to study another language through our Languages For All programme.
- Introduction to phonetics and phonology
- Introduction to syntax
- Introduction to semantics
- Languages For All
If you are taking French ab initio, you will follow an intensive, fast-track programme with more French. You will not study any linguistics or another language through our Languages for All.
- Ab Initio French Language Skills
- Ab Initio French Language and Society
- Ab Initio French Grammar
Year 2
Core modules
- French Language and Cultures: Advanced
- Historical Thinking
You will also study four option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
History
- Ancien Régime France, 1500-1787
- From Grave Robbers to Gene Therapy: The Rise of Modern Medicine
- Histories in Public: Understandings of the Past in Today's Society
- Kingship, Rule and Mythmaking: England 1065-1307
- An Inconvenient Truth: Climate and Capitalism in the Modern World
- Catherine the Great 1763 – 1796
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- The Making of England, c.850-1066
French
- The Francophone World
- French Society Onscreen
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language I
- Languages For All
- Intermediate Phonetics and Phonology
- Intermediate Syntax
- Intermediate Semantics
Year 3
- You will have the choice of either spending a year studying at one of our partner universities for History/French, or spending a semester studying at a university and another semester on a work placement.
Year 4
Core module
- French Language and Cultures: Proficient
Option modules
You can choose between a Dissertation or two normal 20 credits option modules.
You will also study three additional option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
History
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth Century Caribbean
- Ireland in the Age of Revolution
- Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, c.1650-c.1750
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, and Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Second-Class Citizens: Migration in Modern Europe
- The Ghosts of Gandhi: India and Africa since the Late Nineteenth Century
- The Russian Revolution, 1917-21
French
- French Society Onscreen
- France and the Second World War: Memory, Trauma and Identity
- Independent Study in French
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
- Translation: Methodology and Practice
