The Higher Diploma in French is aimed at graduates who want to be considered for a master’s course in French, but do not have an honours degree in French, or who want to add a Higher Diploma in Arts subject to their qualifications.

 

Objectives of the course:

• to provide you with opportunities to further develop your skills in the study and the use of the French language
• to provide you with opportunities to extend and deepen your skills in the reading and discussion of texts
• to introduce you to work in specialised areas of French as a multidisciplinary subject
• to give you a sense of French culture in French-speaking countries around the world

 

The modules on offer, are in the main, those offered to second-year and final-year degree students. French as a degree-level subject is organised into a number of distinct elements:

• language modules on reading, writing, speaking and listening
• core modules dealing with the study of culture and literature
• specialised modules covering different areas of French as a multidisciplinary subject, including literary studies, linguistics, French thought and the history of ideas, cultural studies, French society and institutions, and the francophone world.