French & Philosophy with a year abroad

Currently, students study the following core and compulsory modules. We review our options on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the School/department for further advice.

All students take the core and compulsory modules outlined below.

French
Core French Language
Introduction to French Literature (compulsory)

Philosophy
Combined honours students choose from among our level 4 modules, which are:

Greek Philosophy I
Ethics I
Elementary Logic
Epistemology I
Metaphysics I
Modern Philosophy I
Political Philosophy I
Methodology

In the first year combined honours students must take at least one module in history of philosophy, at least one module in either ethics or political philosophy, and at least one module from among Elementary Logic, Metaphysics I, Epistemology I, and Methodology.

One core language module and one compulsory translation module, plus two optional modules in French and four in Philosophy.

French
Core French Language
Translation into French (compulsory)

French
Death and Desire: Love in French Literature before 1700
Writing the Self since 1700 in French Literature
French poetry since 1800
Comedy in French Literature before 1700
The French Novel since 1700
The Idea of France
Modernity and the City
Modern French History

Philosophy
Students take four modules from the following lists, with the requirement to choose from at least two of the three lists:

List A
Greek Philosophy II: Plato
Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle
Modern Philosophy II: Locke and Berkeley
Modern Philosophy II: Spinoza and Leibniz

List B
Ethics II: History of Ethical Philosophy
Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy
Political Philosophy II: Theories of Justice / Theories of Freedom
Political Philosophy II: History of Political Philosophy

List C
Epistemology II
Metaphysics II
Philosophy of Logic and Language
Philosophy of Mind

In the second year combined honours students may also take one 15 credit module from among level 6 optional subjects.

Normally spent in a French-speaking country.

You take the core module and three optional modules in French, plus four optional modules in Philosophy.

French
Core French Language

French
The Stylistics of Translation
Medieval Occitan Literature
The Debate about Women in the Middle Ages
Sixteenth-century Encounters with the New World
The Literary Perception of the Honnête Homme
The City in the Literature of 17th- & 18th-century France
Gender & Discourse in 18th-century France
Proust
French Literature under the Second Empire
Troubling Desires
Recent French Thought
Contemporary Women's Writing in French
Images of Algeria
Citizenship & Exclusion in Modern France
Contemporary French Film
Shadows of Enlightenment
Flaubert
French Feminist Writing
Québécois Fiction & Film across the Canadian Bicultural Divide

Philosophy
19th Century Continental Philosophy
20th Century Continental Philosophy
Advanced Logic modules
Aesthetics
Dissertation
Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
Greek Philosophical Texts
Hellenistic Philosophy
Indian Philosophy
Kant
Meaning and Grammar
Medieval Philosophy
Moral Normativity
Neoplatonism
Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Science
Scepticism
Science, Ethics and Society
Topics in Ethics
Topics in Greek Philosophy
Topics in Modern Philosophy
Topics in Philosophy of Mind
Topics in Political Philosophy
Utilitarianism