French — Linguistics

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The MA degree in French Linguistics aims to provide students 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. Students will have the opportunity to work on a range of specialized areas

* key issues in the evolution of the French language
* sociolinguistic approaches to language variation and change in French and to issues of language and gender
* theory of second language acquisition
* language policy and planning and the international status of French

Learning OutcomesOn successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
* Collect, analyse and draw conclusions on various types of linguistic data;
* Engage in critical discussion of linguistic topics;
* Deliver an oral presentation on a linguistic topic;
* Identify broad trends of scholarship in the area;
* Select, define and carry out an individual research topic and present the findings in a research dissertation.

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

* FR6101 Approaches to Linguistics (15 credits)

plus
either 30 credits from the following (subject to availability):

* FR6102 Language Variation and Change: The Case of French (10 credits)

* FR6103 Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (10 credits)

* FR6104 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language and Gender (10 credits)

* FR6105 Language Policy and Language Practice in Canada (10 credits)

* FR6106 The Evolution of the French Language: Issues and Milestones (10 credits)

or
20 credits from the following:

* FR6102 Language Variation and Change: The Case of French (10 credits)

* FR6103 Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (10 credits)

* FR6104 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language and Gender (10 credits)

* FR6105 Language Policy and Language Practice in Canada (10 credits)

* FR6106 The Evolution of the French Language: Issues and Milestones (10 credits)

and
10 credits from the following:

* FR6203 Orientalism, Ethnography and the Other (10 credits)

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

* FR6205 Reading the City (10 credits)

* FR6303 Marguerite Duras: L'Écriture dans tous ses états (10 credits)

* FR6304 Unsettling Identities: Auto-biographical Spaces in Contemporary Writing (10 credits)

* FR6305 "Lorsque le theatre se fait femme": Women Writing for the Stage in France (10 credits)

* FR6402 Myth in Modern Novel (10 credits)

* FR6403 French Writers in Rome (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

* FR6199 Dissertation (45 credits)

A standard of at least a second-class honours in the subject in the B.A. examination, or an equivalent qualification, will be expected.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