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The M.A. degree in French (CKE33) involves course work and the independent preparation of a minor dissertation (up to 15,000 words in length). It provides the opportunity both to extend your knowledge of the subject and to acquire research skills.

Learning OutcomesOn successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
* Develop their language skills through extensive reading of materials in French;
* Comment analytically on a wide range of materials in French;
* Demonstrate an awareness of French culture and cultural production;
* Apply critical methodologies developed by French and francophone writers in literature and/or lingusitics and/or translation and/or cultural studies and/or creative writing;
* Apply research methodologies to prepare a work of original research on a domain of French culture.

Part I consists of taught modules to the value of 45 credits. Part II consists of a dissertation to the value of 45 credits. Students take 90 credits as follows:

Part I

* FR6111 Method and Meaning (15 credits)

* FR6901 Research Methods (10 credits)

plus 20 credits from the following:

* FR6204 Contemporary French Philosophy: Theory as Vision (10 credits)

* FR6306 Theories and Practices of Modernity and Modernism (10 credits)

* FR6307 French Cinema: Stories and histories (10 credits)

* FR6404 "Regards Croisés": Travel Writing around France in Ireland and Ireland in France (10 credits)

* FR6405 Heroes and Heroines from Aeschylus to Lara Croft (10 credits)

* FR6002 Camille Claudel (10 credits)

* FR6003 Myth and the Imaginaire: Tragedy, Anime, Romans graphiques (10 credits)

Part II

* FR6099 Dissertation (45 credits)

To be considered for registration as an MA candidate, an applicant will normally have a primary degree including French as a joint-honours subject at second-class honours level at least, or the equivalent.English Language Requirements:IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL equivalentPart-Time Taught Postgraduate ProgrammesPlease note that non-EU applicants are not eligible to study part-time programmes English Language Requirements IELTS band: 6.5