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MA - Master of Arts
UCL (University College London) - Bloomsbury Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
Improve your French language skills and gain an in-depth understanding of French culture, ideal for future careers in professional or academic fields. The Language, Culture and History: French and Francophone Studies MA brings together a raft of interdisciplinary modules, enabling you to shape the direction of your degree. Taught at UCL, you’ll benefit from access to internationally renowned academics shaping the direction of this subject. This course provides a thorough understanding of aspects of French and Francophone culture within a broadly interdisciplinary focus. Students have the opportunity, among other things, to learn key methods and issues in textual criticism, engage in theoretical analysis, improve their language skills, or deepen their historical understanding. The modules are designed to offer exciting critical engagement with topical issues currently being addressed in French and Francophone Studies and modern language studies more widely, such as text and theory, text and image, historiography, trauma, creativity and post-colonial theory. The Language, Culture and History: French and Francophone Studies MA, comprises of one compulsory module. This core module provides a combination of methodology and research topics (historiography, literary studies, cultural studies), and is designed to work as a postgraduate-level foundation. Providing you with the specific skills and knowledge to research, write academic essays and the dissertation. You will also take optional modules and a dissertation. If you choose the 60-credit dissertation, you take 90 credits of optional modules. If you choose the 90-credit research dissertation, you take fewer optional modules (60 credits), in favour of writing an extended dissertation to focus on your own interests. The course will appeal to students wishing to extend their knowledge in this field and/or preparing for future PhD work. Although aimed at students with a first degree in French, students without French reading skills will be considered. Most of the set texts are available in English translation and can be used for assessments.
In addition to core modules, Students will study some optional modules.
All students undertake an independent research project related to the broad area of French and Francophone Studies, which culminates in a dissertation of 12,000 words, for the taught pathway and 18,000 words for the research pathway.
In addition to core modules, Students will study some optional modules.
This core module permits research into two areas of major contemporary interest; recent modules available have included Memory, The Past, Sexuality, Warfare.
A fee deposit will be charged at 2.5 percent of the first year fee
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