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French studies is a program tailored at developing a communicative competence in speaking the French language and understanding of the fundamental entities of France as a nation. French is one of the languages used in international forums and organisation such as the UN and the European Union. It is spoken in more than 43 countries across the world. Apart from attaining proficiency in speaking, writing, listening and reading French language under French studies you also learn about French culture in France and other French-speaking countries across the world.

This major is available for beginners to near-native speakers and can be combined with other Majors such as Commerce, Arts and Sciences.

WHY TAKE FRENCH STUDIES?

1. Career Asset.

Apart from English and German, it’s one of the languages taught and used on the international stage hence learning it not only enriches you but also opens you up to new horizons increasing the chances of one landing a job.

2. Opens one to a versatile cultural Universe.

It’s a language of culture and by studying it one opens up into worlds of arts films fashion science and gastronomy. Also, it offers access to the works of great minds such as Charles Baudelaire.

3. Offers you a chance to visit Paris and the rest of France and even study there. With the ability to speak the French language it’s easier to move around the country and interact with the people.

4. It is a language that opens up the world.

The general objective of French studies is to empower you with the ability to communicate fluently in French and fit well in the French-speaking world. All this is made possible through studying aspects of French cultures including literature film theater translation travel writing food and wine immigration and identity.

Check our useful sources for French Studies subject:

• • Gateways
    Euro Studies: France

    http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/eurostudies/

    from the Social Science Information Gateway

    Fabula: la recherche en littérature

    http://www.fabula.org/vlib/

    France @ la Carte

    http://www.francealacarte.org.uk/

    Le site éducatif du Service Culturel de l’Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni. Links to Médias, Education, Arts et Cultures, Sciences et Techno, and Francophonie.

    France Newspapers

    http://www.ipl.org/div/news/browse/FR/

    Links to newspapers throughout France from the Internet Public Library.

    Francophone Africa

    http://www.hum.port.ac.uk/slas/francophone/

    links from the University of Portsmouth

    French

    http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/french/french.html

    a guide to resources from the British Library

    French Studies Web

    http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/French_Studies_Web

    from the Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries in the US

    Intute

    http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=200013

    French web resources for French and the online tutorial Internet for Modern Languages

    iLoveLanguages

    http://www.ilovelanguages.com/index.php?category=Languages%7CBy+Language%7CFrench

    your guide to languages on the web – French

    Online resources for French

    http://www.bris.ac.uk/languagecentre/afl/french/links.html

    from the Language Centre at the University of Bristol.

    PORT (Postgraduate Online Research Training)

    http://port.igrs.sas.ac.uk/resources.htm

    from the School of Advanced Study, University of London

    Ressources Internet Francophones

    http://www.lehman.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/

    Les Signets de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

    http://signets.bnf.fr/

    Voice of the Shuttle (Web Page for Humanities Research)

    http://vos.ucsb.edu/
• • Books/E-texts
    ABES (Agence bibliographique de l’ensignement supérieur)

    http://www.abes.fr/abes/DesktopDefault.aspx

    ABU

    http://abu.cnam.fr/

    la Bibliothèque Universelle accès libre au texte intégral d’oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet

    alapage.com

    http://www.alapage.com/

    books, DVDs and more

    Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux (BVMM)

    http://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/

    digitised manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance from collections throughout France (except the Bibliothèque Nationale)

    Culturethèque

    http://culturetheque.org.uk/

    the digital platform of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni which includes access to ebooks on many different subjects

    Fnac

    http://www.fnac.com/

    books, DVDs and more

    French book news

    http://www.frenchbooknews.com/

    electronic version

    Gallica

    http://gallica.bnf.fr/

    digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale, including La presse quotidienne

    The Marandet Collection of French Plays

    http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/marandet/

    from the University of Warwick – over 2000 plays from the period 1700-1830 and a similar number from the period 1830-1900

    Online Literary Criticism Collection

    http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

    From the Internet Public Library, can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

    Poésie française

    http://www.poesie.webnet.fr/

    6000 poèmes de langue française, du Moyen Âge au début du XXème siècle.

    Revues.org

    http://www.revues.org/index155.html

    portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales
• • Cinema
    Association Française de Recherche sur l’Histoire du Cinéma (AFRHC)

    http://www.afrhc.fr/

    a non-profit organization whose membership includes most French film historians and some foreign scholars.

    Bibliothèque du Film (BiFi)

    http://www.bifi.fr/public/index.php

    cinema links in France and beyond

    Centre National de la Cinématographie

    http://www.cnc.fr/Site/Template/Accueil.aspx?SELECTID=614&&t=3

    Ciné Lumière

    http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/schedule

    at the Institut Français

    Le film français

    http://www.lefilmfrancais.com/

    guide to all aspects of French cinema
• • Culture/News
    ClicNet

    http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/

    Site culturel et littéraire francophone, from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Culture.fr

    http://www.culture.fr/

    le portail de la culture from the Ministère de la Culture et de la communication

    CulturesFrance

    http://www.adpf.asso.fr/

    from the Association de la Diffusion de la Pensée Française and the Association Française d’Action Artistique

    Culturethèque

    http://culturetheque.org.uk/

    the digital platform of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni which includes free access to ebooks, music, audiobooks and videos

    A dictionary of modern France

    http://about-france.com/dictionary/index.htm

    from About-France.com

    Label France

    http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/france_829/label-france_5343/propos-label-france_13893/bienvenue-sur-label-france_31097.html

    magazine covering all aspects of French culture from the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères

    Musée du Louvre

    http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp

    its collections and exhibitions

    Podcast Radio France

    http://www.radiofrance.fr/boite-a-outils/podcast/

    news and cultural broadcasts available daily
• • Discussion groups
    Francofil

    http://www.bristol.ac.uk/francofil/

    French Studies electronic discussion list

    H-France discussion list

    http://h-france.net/discussion.html

    provides an electronic forum covering all aspects of the history and culture of the Francophone world

    JISCmail

    http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/index.htm

    national academic mailing list service facilitating discussion, collaboration and communication within the UK academic community and beyond

    The Linguist List

    http://linguistlist.org/

    free subscription service to professional and research information, including mailing lists

    London French Meetup

    http://french.meetup.com/32/?gi=sj10

    the biggest group for French speakers of all ages and abilities in London

    Naked Translations

    http://www.nakedtranslations.com/en/blog.php

    translation blog: reflections on words, expressions and the difficulties encountered on the bridge from the English to the French language
• • Francophonie
    Île en Île

    http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/

    un site pour valoriser les ressources informatives et culturelles du monde insulaire francophone

    Literature and culture of Francophone Africa and the diaspora

    http://dl.lib.brown.edu/francophone/

    from Brown University Library

    Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

    http://www.francophonie.org/

    REPSIT: à la découverte du monde francophone

    http://www.ucalgary.ca/repsit/
• • History
    Centre des monuments nationaux

    http://www.monuments-nationaux.fr/fr

    CESAR

    http://www.cesar.org.uk/cesar2/

    (calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l’ancien régime et sous la révolution) for all those with an interest in French theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries

    History of France

    http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_France:_Primary_Documents

    primary documents – from Eurodocs at Brigham Young University, Utah

    Liberty, equality, fraternity

    http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/

    exploring the French Revolution. A collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and the American Social History Project (City University of New York).

    Nineteenth century French studies resources

    http://www.sdn.ac.uk/resources/links.html

    from the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN)

    Paris: capital of the 19th century

    http://dl.lib.brown.edu/paris/index.html

    a Brown University Library digital collection

    Web 17

    http://perso.orange.fr/roger.duchene/accueil.htm

    Le dix-septième siècle de Roger Duchêne, un site pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent au XVIIe siècle pour leur plaisir ou pour leur travail.
• • Individual authors
    Auteurs contemporains

    http://auteurs.contemporain.info/

    documentation critique sur les écrivains contemporains de langue française

    Balzac’s Paris

    http://www.balzacsparis.ucr.edu/index.html

    a guided tour

    FleursDuMal.org

    http://fleursdumal.org/

    dedicated to the French poet Charles Baudelaire

    Samuel Beckett online resources and links page

    http://www.samuel-beckett.net/

    Albert Camus Society UK

    http://www.camus-society.com/

    resources on his life and work, and critical reaction to his philosophy

    Canadian writers

    http://www.collectionscanada.ca/writers/

    Centre Flaubert

    http://flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/

    at the Université de Rouen

    Les amis de Flaubert et de Maupassant

    http://www.amis-flaubert-maupassant.fr/

    Gidiana

    http://www.gidiana.net/

    a pour but de diffuser toute information relative à l’existence, à l’œuvre, à l’étude d’André Gide.

    Jean Paul Sartre

    http://www.sartre.org/

    from sartre.org

    Association des Amis de Stendhal

    http://www.associationamisstendhal.org/

    La Société Voltaire

    http://www.societe-voltaire.org/

    Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC)

    http://163.1.91.91/_svec_index/soi_main.lasso

    index to the journal

    The Emile Zola Society

    http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/zola/conferences.htm

    based at the Institut Français in London
• • Language
    The Anglo-Norman online hub

    http://www.anglo-norman.net/

    a project of the University of Wales Aberystwyth and the University of Wales Swansea

    French Linguistics

    http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/

    site for the study of the French language

    Lexilogos: mots et merveilles d’ici et d’ailleurs

    http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm

    range of dictionaries from all periods

    Le Mensuel

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/news/

    an intermediate audio magazine with topical reports plus other materials to help you keep your French up to date.
• • Organisations
    Arts and Humanities Research Council

    http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/

    supporting research into the arts and humanities

    British Academy

    http://www.britac.ac.uk/

    the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences

    Call@Hull

    http://www.fredriley.org.uk/call/

    a collection of online Communications and Information Technology (C&IT) resources for teachers and learners of languages in higher education.

    CILT (Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research)

    http://www.cilt.org.uk/

    collects and disseminates information on all aspects of modern languages and the teaching of modern languages, open to everyone.

    Institute of Translation and Interpreting

    http://www.iti.org.uk/indexMain.html

    independent professional association of practising translators and interpreters in the United Kingdom

    Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

    http://www.francophonie.org/

    Society for French Studies

    http://www.sfs.ac.uk/

    the oldest and leading learned association for French studies in the UK and Ireland, exists to promote teaching and research in French studies in higher education. Includes a link to Current Research in French Studies, a register of current interests and activities.

    Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

    http://www.llas.ac.uk/index.aspx

    from the Higher Education Academy