French

Course summary

You will study aspects of contemporary life in France and French speaking countries and at the same time learn how to express your ideas with more complex language and understand more advanced spoken and written texts. Listening, written, reading and spoken skills are practised in equal measure in classrooms devoted to language learning. Grammar and language structure will also be a key ingredient in your programme. Cultural works will be studied, which include film and literature and form the basis of essays written as part of the final assessment. In your first year, topics studied will include technological innovations, family life, cinema and music, all looked at from a young French speaking person’s perspective. In the second year, themes will include politics, crime and punishment and immigration and their impact on French speaking societies across the globe.