French

• Levels: Beginner and Advanced
• Available if you are taking one, two or three languages

French and Francophone Studies explores a wide range of topics from the 17th century up to events of the last 3 months. Expertise ranges from contemporary French politics and society to French literature, history and cinema.

French modules include:

• Translation in Practice
• Business French 
• La France Moderne
• Occuption, Liberation, Innovation: France and its people in film and writing 
• The Algerian War
• Discourses, Disciplines and Dissidence: The Construction of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France
• Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
• Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe 
• From Princesses to Poisoners: Gender, Identity and Society in Seventeenth-century French texts
• Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures in the Francophone Worlds
• Franco-African Relations from de Gaulle to Macron Sarkozy (1944 to the present)
• Breaking New Ground: Innovative French Writing and Visual Culture
• Francophone Caribbean Literature and Film
• Interpreting

For more information about studying French, German, Hispanic/ Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese/Mandarin, Japanese, Catalan, English as a Modern Foreign Language and/ or Translation at Birmingham, please visit BA Modern Languages and for information on the language combinations available please visit mychoices.bham.ac.uk.