French - Module booklet · This booklet is intended for prospective students of French and Francophone Studies ... R13091 Translation from French (Compulsory for Single Honours students)

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School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Department of French and Francophone Studies www.nottingham.ac.uk/french ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Introduction This booklet is intended for prospective students of French and Francophone Studies at The University of Nottingham. You have probably already looked at our website which gives some information about the courses we offer. We find that prospective students are often interested to find out more about the modules taught in the Department, and so we have compiled a more detailed list of the modules we teach. Please be aware that in any one year, the selection of optional modules will vary; however, there will always be a range across the different fields of Francophone Studies represented in our Department. If you study French as a single honours subject, then you will select optional modules to a value of 40-80 credits each year in addition to your core modules. Students studying French in combination with another subject or subjects will take 40-60 credits in total in French, comprising core language modules as well as some optional modules. Degree programmes related to the Department of French and Francophone Studies: Single Honours R120 French Studies Joint and Combined Honours R900 Modern Languages QR31 French and English RL12 French and Politics RT11 French and Contemporary Chinese Studies RV11 French and History RV15 French and Philosophy R9N1 Modern Languages with Business (MLB) 74Q9 Modern Languages with Translation (MLT) T900 Modern Language Studies (MLS) R906 Modern European Studies (MES) Related Combined Honours degrees from other Schools/Departments L1R1 Economics with French M1R1 Law with French and French Law N2R1 Management with French

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Modules from the Department of French and Francophone Studies: Year 1 Core modules (depending on your degree programme) R11001 French 1 R11200 Beginners’ French 1 R11026 Introduction to French and Francophone Studies Optional modules R11027 Introduction to French Literature: Landmarks in Narrative R11028 Introduction to French Literature: Representations of Paris R11019 France: History and Identity R11020 Contemporary France R11030 French Texts in Translation (Beginners’ French only) Year 2 Core modules (depending on your degree programme) R12062 French 2 R12100 Beginners’ French 2 Optional modules R22269 Contemporary Translation Studies R12096 Translation Portfolio R12015 Caribbean Francophone Writing R12087 Sociolinguistics: An Introduction R12014 Post-War French Theatre R12083 Introduction to Contemporary Science Fiction R12086 Huit Tableaux: Art and Politics in 19th Century France (1799-1871) R12007 French Cinema - The New Wave R12097 Myth and History R12077 Contemporary France and Globalisation R12082 Introduction to Modern French Poetry R12080 Literature and Politics in Modern France R12089 Francophone Africa: Exploring Contemporary Issues through Culture R12028 Québécois Writing X12001 Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)

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Final Year Core modules (for all students) R13111 French 3 Optional modules R13161 Traduction Littéraire R13172 Photography in French Culture R13160 Citizenship, Ethnicity and National Identity in Post-War France R13146 African Francophone Fiction R13147 Contemporary Representations of Travel R13170 Theories and Practices of Translation R13177 Literature as Action R13179 The French avant-garde R13091 Translation from French (Compulsory for Single Honours students) R13087 Translation into French (Compulsory for Single Honours students) R13125 La République gaullienne: 1958 to 1969 R13156 Narrative Fiction by Balzac R13114 Dissertation in French Studies R13159 Peuple and Propaganda: Representing the French Revolution R13176 Language Contact and French R13150 The Everyday in Modern French Fiction R13178 Subtitling and Dubbing from French into English AA3002 Communicating & Teaching Languages for Undergraduate Ambassadors

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Year 1 modules

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French 1 – (R11001) Credits 20 Assessment 1 hour exam (30%); oral exam (10%); 2 hour exam (60%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Oral classes - 1 per week, 1 hour duration Workshops - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

This module consolidates and develops students' command of the French language, both written and spoken. The language work focuses in particular on grammar, listening and speaking skills.

Beginners’ French 1 – (R11200) Credits 40 Assessment Two 1 hour exams (20% each); oral exam (10%);

listening exam (20%); three in-class exams (10% exam) Delivery Oral classes - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 2 per week, 2 hours duration The module will focus on the five key skills of listening, speaking, writing, reading and grammatical competence. It will use a language course textbook, supplemented with other material.

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Introduction to French and Francophone Studies – (R11026) Credits 20 Assessment 2 hour exam (50%); 1,000 word essay (25%);

1 hour in-class exam (25%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 2 hour duration

Workshops - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module provides an introduction to the range of topics and study skills that students will need and will go on to further develop in the course of their degree study of French and Francophone Studies. Drawing on the expertise of the teaching team, the module will cover the main fields of the discipline, including linguistics, politics, history, thought, French and Francophone literature, media, visual culture and cinema. Through engagement with a range of different texts, images and film, students will also be introduced to core study skills, such as reading strategies, awareness of register, close reading, essay writing, commentary writing, bibliographical and referencing skills and visual analysis.

Introduction to French Literature: Landmarks in Narrative – (R11027) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Workshops - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module aims to introduce students to the critical study of French narrative, covering key examples of novels from the seventeenth century to the present. In studying each text we will focus on (a) understanding the text within its historical context, and (b) developing critical approaches to the text. The module will develop core skills in literary study, from the basics of understanding a text with unfamiliar syntax and vocabulary, to close reading and the application of more complex literary theories.

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Introduction to French Literature: Representations of Paris – (R11028) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Workshops - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module aims to introduce students to the comparative study of literature and culture, focusing in particular on how the city of Paris is represented in a range of texts (poetic, narrative and filmic) in the modern period (post-1800). Students will learn reading techniques adapted to different genres and media, and representations of the city will be considered within their broader social, historical and political context.

France: History and Identity – (R11019) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Workshops - 1 per week, 1 hour duration The module aims to introduce students to the course of French history since the late Middle Ages through the study of a series of historical figures, their times and lives, of how their 'stories' are written and woven into the fabric of 'le roman de la nation', and how they have been appropriated to serve a range of different ends. It will also introduce students to the iconography of the French historical landscape.

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Contemporary France – (R11020) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Workshops - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module will focus on a selection of themes that explore the distinctive social and political landscape of contemporary France: French political institutions, with particular emphasis on the presidency; political parties in France; and immigration and identity and questions of identity. A close analysis of these themes will provide students with a general understanding of contemporary French society and institutions. In more specific terms, the module will begin to explore the ways in which France is faced with the challenge of adapting its republican traditions to a changing world.

French Texts in Translation (Beginners’ French only) – (R11030) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Workshops - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module is designed as an introduction to some of the main skills required to study literature by looking at landmark French texts (novels and films) in English translation. By choosing texts with varied thematic and formal features the module will give an insight into the range of themes and issues which have preoccupied writers in France, as well as the fictional forms they have used to explore these themes. The module will raise students' awareness of a range of literary styles and techniques and the ways in which these may influence the reader.

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Year 2 modules

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French 2 – (R12062) Credits 20 Assessment 1hr30min exam (30%); coursework (10%);

continuous oral assessment (10%); 1 hour exam (20%); oral exam (20%); listening exam (10%)

Delivery Oral classes - 1 per week, 1 hour duration Workshops - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

This module seeks to consolidate and build on the skills and knowledge and skills acquired in the Year 1 language module. The various language skills required for competence in French language – reading comprehension, listening comprehension, creative writing, summary, review, translation and oral production – are developed through a variety of means and exercises.

Beginners’ French 2 – (R12100) Credits 20 Assessment 1 hour exam (30%); oral exam (10%); 2 hour exam (60%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Oral classes - 1 per week, 1 hour duration Workshops - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

The module seeks to consolidate and build on the skills and knowledge acquired in the first year in the following areas: listening, speaking, writing, reading and grammatical competence.

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Translation Portfolio – (R12096) Credits 20 Assessment Two translations (70%), one editing assignment (20%);

formative work (10%) Delivery Tutorials - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Workshops - 1 per week, 2 hours duration Students will be required to build up a portfolio of translations of different text types, such as technical, scientific, promotional, academic, or journalistic texts. Through the practices of translation and editing, they will improve their language skills, gain a better understanding of the cultural and linguistic complexities of the translation process, and learn how to research terminology in specialist subject domains. Where possible, one of the assignments will be a real-life pro bono assignment, giving students the opportunity to practise client-facing skills.

Caribbean Francophone Writing – (R12015) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (90%); seminar presentation (10%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module aims to provide an introduction to literature in French from the Caribbean. The module consists of a study of three texts (two novels and one essay) by authors from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and combines discussion of the contexts of literary production with critical analyses of the texts themselves. Particular attention will be given to the following: the implications of French colonialism for literature from the Caribbean, and theoretical and literary approaches to the colonial situation.

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Sociolinguistics: An Introduction – (R12087) Credits 10 Assessment 2,000 word essay (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

This module provides an introduction to the rich field of study known as sociolinguistics, which investigates the relationship between language and society through an exploration of the social contexts of language use. Particular areas of focus in any one year of the module could include intercultural communication, politeness and face, linguistic determinism, power and solidarity, language choice, speech act theory, the ethnography of communication, language and gender, and approaches to the study of discourse/talk. Students are required to do weekly readings, to prepare data exercises ahead of classes and to engage in the discussion of these exercises in class.

Post-War French Theatre – (R12014) Credits 10 Assessment 2,000 word essay (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module focuses on developments in French theatre in the mid-twentieth century. This includes plays, which dramatise existentialist issues as well as examples of what was known as the Theatre of the Absurd, a new, experimental approach to theatre, which flourished in France in the 1950s and 1960s. Authors studied will include Sartre, Beckett and Ionesco, and the module will analyse both dramatic technique and theory, along with performance. The module will explore the various ways in which these plays challenged dramatic conventions and how they engaged with fundamental questions relating to meaning, causality, language and society.

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Introduction to Contemporary Science Fiction – (R12083) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

Focusing on texts ranging from the novels of Jules Vernes through to contemporary authors such as Élisabeth Vonarburg, this module will engage with key themes in French science fiction writing. Whether it deals with the discoveries of new worlds or the confrontation with new technologies, science fiction as a genre expresses the anxieties and hopes specific to the contemporary era. Science fiction is political in that it deals with questions of power, ecology and science. It is also philosophical, since it calls into question boundaries between cultures, times, genres and species. Drawing on these political and philosophical dimensions, the module will look in particular at how science fiction explores the ways in which identity is constructed and reconfigured by material and technological forces.

Huit Tableaux: Art and Politics in 19th Century France (1799-1871) – (R12086) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration The module examines the course of French history from the Consulate (1799) to the Paris Commune (1871). Through a chronological series of lectures using eight more or less well-known works of art (principally painting but also sculpture) as a platform for exploring political choices and change, the module will trace how a succession of regimes struggled and ultimately failed to move on from the preoccupations of the Revolution. The module will explore the ways in which these works of art tackled issues of national identity, religion and political culture. Among the Huit tableaux dealt with are David's Sacre de Napoléon, Delacroix's La Liberté guidant le peuple, Rude's statue of Jeanne d'Arc and Meissonier's Le Siège de Paris.

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French Cinema - The New Wave – (R12007) Credits 10 Assessment 1hr30min exam (50%); 1,500 word essay (50%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration The module is designed to introduce students to a particular period of French cinema by offering a detailed study of the New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s, focusing in particular on the films of Godard, Truffaut, Resnais and Chabrol. As the module will show, New Wave film-makers often employed a variety of new and challenging formal techniques in order to make films that reflected an emergent, modern, iconoclastic sensibility in post-war France. For these reasons, the module combines a contextual approach with introductory teaching in film analysis.

Myth and History – (R12097) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module introduces students to key ideas and debates around culture, biology and anthropology in France in the decade following the Second World War. In particular, it focuses on the themes of myth and history as they are discussed in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writing on race and Roland Barthes’s highly influential analysis of popular culture. The module relates these themes to the ideas of existentialism, Marxism, feminism, structuralism and psychoanalysis as well as the wider historical, social and political context of 1950s France.

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Contemporary France and Globalisation – (R12077) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module looks at contemporary French society in the context of an increasingly globalised culture and economy. The module analyses recent attempts to defend, redefine and adapt key aspects of French economic and cultural life in order to negotiate ways of living in an era of globalisation. The material in the module focuses on key debates around globalisation: the national and the ‘local’ versus the global; constructions of Frenchness in opposition to America; the decline of rural France; the contemporary redefinition and possible continued significance of established French values and cultural practices; and the problems associated with maintaining a distinctively French social and economic model in the face of globalisation. The module will focus in particular on the politics and economics of food and wine production.

Introduction to Modern French Poetry – (R12082) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (90%); group presentation (10%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module provides an introduction to three major figures in modern French poetry (Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Apollinaire), and to the major formal developments in poetry in the period 1850-1914, including the prose poem and free verse. Students will learn how to analyse, interpret and write commentaries on poetry, and individual poems will be considered in relation to broad themes such as the representations of self and notions of modernism.

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Literature and Politics in Modern France – (R12080) Credits 10 Assessment 2,000 word essay (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module looks at various ways in which French writers have engaged with the political struggles of their time. Through the study of key authors of what is often referred to as ‘committed’ literature the module will analyse how the tension between literature and politics has shaped these texts. Through the analysis of committed literature the module will trace the emergence of the ‘intellectual’ as an important figure in modern French culture and society.

Francophone Africa: Exploring Contemporary Issues through Culture – (R12089) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Screenings - 1 per week, 1 hour duration Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

This module explores a range of political and social issues relevant to contemporary sub-Saharan Francophone Africa through literature, film and popular culture. It also offers an overview of the history of the French language in Africa and introduces students to the range of varieties of French spoken there today.

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Québécois Writing – (R12028) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module offers an introduction to Québécois writing and the light it throws on the development of a distinctively Québécois cultural identity. The period studied is that from the 1960s to the 1980s, years which saw fundamental changes in Quebec society and in the sense of what it is to be Québécois. Students will study three texts that will be related to their historical, political, social and cultural background. The texts have been selected to introduce students to a variety of genres – including drama, the short story and the novel – and a variety of settings – from the sub-Arctic zone of Northern Quebec, to an urban kitchen in Montreal and on the road across North America from Quebec to California. The module aims to offer an insight into the challenges and the possibilities of writing as a French speaker in Canada.

Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) – (X12001) Credits 10 Assessment Practical (delivery of an EFL lesson) (40%);

1,500 essay (50%); participation (10%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

Seminars - 2 per week, 2 and 3 hours duration This module introduces the essential knowledge and skills needed to teach English as a Foreign Language at secondary school age and above.

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Final Year modules

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French 3 – (R13111) Credits 20 Assessment 1 hour listening exam (10%);

750 word report in French (10%); continuous oral assessment (10%); 2 hour exam (40%); French-English translation (10%); oral exam (20%)

Delivery Oral classes - 1 per week, 1 hour duration Seminars - 1 per week, 2 hours duration Workshops - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

This module develops the following language skills: oral and written skills, the written skills to include translation into and out of French, creative writing in different registers, linguistic commentary, production of summaries. The module will also focus on perfecting an advanced knowledge of French grammar and developing a sophisticated range of French vocabulary.

Traduction Littéraire – (R13161) Credits 20 Assessment Portfolio of three translations, with commentaries (100%) Delivery Workshops - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

This module explores the translation of novels, poetry, drama, children's literature and experimental writing (including feminist texts and accented voices) in a series of workshops. The emphasis is largely practical, and students are encouraged to develop a critical, reflective approach to translation practice. All translations are from French into English. The module also introduces students to key concepts in Translation Theory.

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Photography in French Culture – (R13172) Credits 20 Assessment 1h30min image-based exam (35%);

500 word image analysis (10%); 2,000 word essay (40%); 500 word image analysis (15%)

Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

This module explores the significance of photography in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French culture through the study of a number of important historical and theoretical texts and relevant visual material. It focuses on four major historical and thematic areas: nineteenth-century debates about photography; the conception and use of photography in Surrealism; the role of photography in post-war French society; and photography as a means of self-exploration and expression. Wider theoretical, aesthetic, socio-cultural and historic issues photography raises will be addressed, together with text-and-image relations.

Citizenship, Ethnicity and National Identity in Post-War France – (R13160) Credits 20 Assessment 2 hour exam (60%); 3,000 word essay (40%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration The module will examine the range of social, political and philosophical questions raised by mass immigration to France in the post-war period. These questions will be tackled through historical analysis of patterns of migration and changing immigration policies, as well as through the study of relevant films, novels and theoretical texts which engage with questions of citizenship, identity and ethnicity.

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African Francophone Fiction – (R13146) Credits 20 Assessment 2 hour exam (60%); 3,000 word essay (40%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module aims to develop knowledge and understanding of literature in French from sub-Saharan Africa. The module focuses on selected novels by francophone black African writers. A close analysis of these texts will be developed within the wider frame of a consideration of the context of production of African literature in French and also the impact of colonisation on this literary output.

Contemporary Representations of Travel – (R13147) Credits 20 Assessment 2,000 word essay (40%); 2,500 word essay (50%);

presentation (10%) Delivery Seminars - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

This module will study the different ways in which travel has featured in contemporary French and Francophone texts, art and films. By considering a broad range of themes relating to travel, including tourism, exploration, migration and exile, pilgrimage, and business travel, the module will analyse the ideological assumptions contained in contemporary travel discourses. More specifically, the module will consider whether contemporary discourses of travel have been successful in adapting to a post-colonial awareness. The importance of this field has been steadily growing in disciplines that range from literary studies to ethnography. The module will use these cross-cultural influences to create an arena in which to develop connections between key disciplines and different forms of arts (literature, ethnography, films and photography).

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Theories and Practices of Translation – (R13170) Credits 20 Assessment 2 hour exam (50%); 2,000 word essay (40%);

1,000 word presentation (10%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module explores the different theoretical approaches to translation that have been prominent in the Western world. The module will examine the history of translation and different translation models across a range of genres: novel, drama, audiovisual media and poetry. For each theory of translation, a number of case studies will be examined: either French and Francophone texts translated into English or English texts into French. The emphasis is largely practical, and students are encouraged to develop a critical and reflective approach to translation practice.

Literature as Action – (R13177) Credits 20 Assessment 2,000 word essay (40%); close-reading assignment (20%);

2,000 word essay (40%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module takes as its starting point a number of fundamental questions about writing as a way of acting in the world. Who or what ‘acts’ through literature? Of what does the act consist? Where does the act originate? What is literature for? Along these lines, a major debate in twentieth-century French literary thinking concerns the question of ‘committed literature’ and the impact it might or might not have in the world. The module considers literature as worldly (often political) action, examining the question of commitment through theoretical texts and readings of poetry, fiction and film from the sixteenth century to the present. A more extended view of the French literary tradition reinstates the active, engaged writer and political action at the centre of French-language literary practice.

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The French avant-garde – (R13179) Credits 20 Assessment Oral presentation (10%); 2,500 word essay (40%);

2 hour exam (50%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module will consider a series of avant-garde movements in France, from the late nineteenth century through to the middle of the twentieth century. Each of these movements will be explored through a range of texts (including manifestos, theoretical tracts, art criticism, poetry, plays and novels), as well as through film and the visual arts. The module will thus encourage a comparative and interdisciplinary approach. The first part of the module will consider the Symbolist movement that emerged in the 1880s and will then move on to consider Cubism and Futurism in the years running up to the First World War. The second part of the module will focus initially on Dada and Surrealism and then on the impact of the Second World War on avant-garde cultural production. Throughout the module, students will be asked to reflect critically on theories of modernism and avant-gardism, and to grasp a range of critical concepts used in the analysis of avant-garde works. Avant-garde movements will be related to their broader historical and cultural contexts, and a central question will be whether the avant-garde is always political and, if so, whether it is always associated with a progressive politics.

Translation from French (Compulsory for Single Honours French students) – (R13091) Credits 10 Assessment 1h30min exam (50%); translation coursework (50%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1h30min duration

This module aims to develop the skills of comprehension of written French and of translating accurately and elegantly into English. In addition to the above, it aims to develop a self-conscious translation practice.

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Translation into French (Compulsory for Single Honours French students) – (R13087) Credits 10 Assessment 2 hour exam (100%) Delivery Seminars - 1 per week, 1h30min duration

This module aims to develop the levels of comprehension of written English in order to translate accurately, idiomatically and elegantly into French. It aims to enhance accuracy and fluency of written French through attention to the grammar, syntax, vocabulary and register of both languages. The texts studied will be drawn from a variety of sources (fiction and non-fiction).

La République gaullienne: 1958 to 1969 – (R13125) Credits 20 Assessment 1h30min exam (40%)

3,000 word essay (60%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration The module explores how the Fifth Republic came into being and examines the problems of bedding in a regime that did nothing short of revolutionising French political culture without jettisoning the key features of the 'modèle républicain'. The module is driven by a chronological narrative of French politics between 1958 and 1969, but will also examine themes such as the ‘écriture de la constitution’, the clash of political visions and bipolarisation and its tensions. It concludes with de Gaulle's apparent act of 'political suicide' in 1969.

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Narrative Fiction by Balzac – (R13156) Credits 20 Assessment Two 2,500 word essay (50% each) Delivery Seminars - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

This module will be based on close study of a corpus of well-known stories by Honoré de Balzac, a major and very prolific nineteenth-century writer. Analysis will be both thematic (nineteenth-century French history and society; Paris and the provinces; art and artists; gender and sexuality; marriage and adultery; madness and obsession) and formal (realism and melodrama; character; plot and description; framework and flashback devices; oral narratives; recognition scenes; the handling of narrative secrets).

Dissertation in French Studies – (R13114) Credits 20 Assessment 7,500 word dissertation (100%) Delivery Fortnightly individual consultations with designated

supervisor. Group sessions; generic study skills organised by the Dissertation Module Convenor. In the course of two semesters students should expect to spend 10 hours in fortnightly individual consultation, 5 hours in group sessions and the remaining time divided as appropriate between research, planning and writing up the dissertation.

The module involves the in-depth study of a topic in the field of French and Francophone Studies for which the Department can offer supervision. It may relate to a module that the student has taken in the second year, or may be linked to a module to be taken in Year IV. The title is subject to approval by the Head of Department. Semester 1 is devoted to reading and planning, including a literature review and the production of chapter outlines. In the Spring Semester the student will write up and complete the dissertation under the guidance of the supervisor.

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Peuple and Propaganda: Representing the French Revolution – (R13159) Credits 20 Assessment 2,000 word essay (40%); 3,000 word essay (60%) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration The module is designed to introduce students to the study of various forms of artistic works in relation to the political and social background of the French Revolutionary decade (1789 - 1799). Consideration of this period will follow a set English-language based history. The module will then consider various case studies of a variety of works (theatre, opera, song, iconography, painting) taken from key moments in the period, studying the reflection of contemporary events in such works, the notion of politically engaged arts, and the questions of cultural administration (theatrical repertory, representation, censorship and privilege).

Language Contact and French – (R13176) Credits 20 Assessment 2 hour exam (60%); 2,000 word essay (40%) Delivery Lectures - 2 per week, 2 hours duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration This module looks at various issues relating to the field known as language contact, such as bilingualism, multilingualism and diglossia. The module also explores the outcomes of such language contact, including linguistic borrowing; code-switching; language maintenance; language shift and language death; the emergence of pidgins and creoles; the development of language policy and planning; and the shaping of attitudes towards language, including linguistically purist attitudes. These topics will be explored both generally, using examples from several different languages, and more specifically in relation to the French language in contact with other languages in France and further afield.

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The Everyday in Modern French Fiction – (R13150) Credits 10 Assessment Two 2,500 word essays (50% each) Delivery Lectures - 1 per week, 1 hour duration

Seminars - 1 per week, 1 hour duration From the 1930s onwards the French sociologist Henri Lefebvre argued that theorists who wanted to understand the political and ideological dimensions of life had neglected the sphere of the everyday. This module looks at the various ways in which the French novel has evolved and adapted to the contemporary by responding to this concept of the ‘everyday’. The module will explore how key authors have negotiated, through their writing, the everyday’s indeterminacy and the unstable space it occupies between the social and the individual.

Subtitling and Dubbing from French into English – (R13178) Credits 20 Assessment Subtitling project (50%); dubbing script (50%) Delivery Workshops - 1 per week, 2 hours duration

This module focuses on the theory and practice of two modes of audio-visual translation: subtitling and dubbing. The linguistic, technical, and cultural theoretical underpinnings of subtitling and dubbing from French into English will be examined in detail, and students will be able to put the theory into practice using professional dedicated software.

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Communicating and Teaching Languages for Undergraduate Ambassadors – (AA3002) Credits 10 Assessment 3,000 word essay which will give a reflective account of the

planning and delivery of the teaching project Delivery Practical - 2 hours contact in a school

Tutorials - 1 per week, 2 hours duration This module is part of the nationwide Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme (UAS) which works with universities to provide academic modules that enable students to go into local schools to work as teaching assistants and to act as role-models. Students will split their time between the university-based support seminar and their allocated school, where they will work in the language department as a language assistant. This may require them to provide one-to-one tuition or small group teaching or extra-curricular activities in the context of the school’s language provision. Within the teaching area required by their schools, students will develop and deliver a special (teaching) project, which will be the subject of their evaluative presentations and essays at the end of the module. Students will be supported in their activities by the module convenor, the education specialist on campus, and their contact teacher at their school. Typically there will be a fortnightly seminar on campus and 7 half-days spent at school. Students can choose the language for which they wish to be an ambassador.

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Your Year Abroad Whether you study French as a single, joint or combined honours student, and whether you started as a beginner or already had an A level in French, you will have a wide variety of options for the period of your third year abroad spent in a French-speaking location. You might be an assistant teacher as part of the British Council scheme, you could be a student at one of our partner universities, or you could be working as an intern with a private company. We currently have university exchanges in Paris, Avignon, Grenoble, Pau, Strasbourg, La Réunion, Guadeloupe and Senegal. Students have undertaken work placements with logistics companies, manufacturing companies, international banks and insurance companies, publishers, translation agencies and NGOs. You’ll receive lots of help, support and advice from our dedicated year abroad team as you plan a year abroad which will suit you and is appropriate to your degree. Where will your Year Abroad take you? Check out our Instagram hashtag #uongoingplaces to see what current students are doing.

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Get in touch Contact us School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Trent Building, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD t: +44 (0)115 84 68466 e: [email protected] w: www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas

For international student enquiries, please contact: The International Office t: +44 (0)115 951 5247 f: +44 (0)115 951 5155 e: [email protected] w: www.nottingham.ac.uk/international

Join the conversation You can also reach us via our social media channels – join the conversation online for events, alerts and content related to our courses and departments. You can also share your undergraduate journey to The University of Nottingham with the hashtag #MeantToBe

Year 1 – let’s go! Take a look at our Year 1 website designed especially for our Freshers. You’ll find hints, tips and stories from former newbies as well as information on what to do before, during and after your arrival. Your academic journey at Nottingham starts here – it’s #MeantToBe!

www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/yearone The University of Nottingham has made every effort to ensure that the information in this brochure was accurate when published. Please note, however, that the nature of the content means that it is subject to change from time to time, and you should therefore consider the information to be guiding rather than definitive; normally a selection of the optional modules listed will be available in any given year. You should check the University’s website for any updates before you decide to accept a place on a course.

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Documents

French - Module booklet · This booklet is intended for prospective students of French and Francophone Studies ... R13091 Translation from French (Compulsory for Single Honours students)