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The Department of French has developed an exciting range of new M.A. degrees in the following areas:
Each M.A. degree comprises core and elective components, with a research dissertation. In each of these degrees, you will have the opportunity to carry out cutting-edge work in major areas of contemporary French studies, working closely with research-active teachers. We pride ourselves on the quality and scope of our postgraduate teaching and our students have achieved outstanding results. Many students working with us have gone on from M.A. programmes to carry out research themselves as advanced students. Read on to find out more about what these exciting and innovative M.A. programmes cover.
This degree aims to provide you with the opportunity to develop an awareness and understanding of key concepts in various fields of linguistics and to focus on a range of research questions and research methods in linguistics. You will have the opportunity to work on a range of specialized areas:
We plan to offer the following modules:
This degree provides a grounding in key works, concepts and cultural phenomena of the modern period and in how these provide models for understanding culture in general, and French and francophone culture in particular. Your work will include active cultural analysis in the following range of courses:
This degree aims to enable you to see French literature differently by studying it from a specifically comparative point of view. You will have the opportunity to work on a range of theoretical approaches which underpin comparative literature, such as reception theory, intertextuality, translation theory, literary history. The range of modules on offer include:
Here you will have the opportunity to develop your reading skills in relation to French literary and dramatic texts, and to film. We aim to promote creative forms of critical response to primary texts in French, and to explore the nature of different forms of creativity and the links between them. Here are the courses on offer:
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