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Browse Programs Admission InformationThe Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature offers a generalist yet unique course of study, providing an open-ended cultural base in a number of areas: linguistics and grammar of the French language, literary and civilisational history of the French-speaking world, practical approaches to teaching French, etc. The course's pedagogical, scientific and professional objectives are mainly geared towards a general knowledge of the French language and its literature, and the acquisition of the skills needed to analyse oral and/or written discourse and literary texts. The teaching, scientific and professional objectives are mainly geared towards a general knowledge of the French language and its literature, and the acquisition of the skills needed to analyse oral and/or written discourse and literary texts, to write critically and to reflect on grammatical, linguistic, literary and didactic studies. The BA in Literature and French Language is a three-year course offering the methodological tools needed for phraseological analysis, as well as an introduction to literary criticism.
The course aims to provide an understanding of the main mechanisms involved in the functioning of language and literary genres (novels, poetry, drama, essays, etc.) through corpora studied in different discursive contexts. It enables students to study the main issues involved in language, writing, reading, interpretation and, more generally, ‘language’. Students will also be able to define the links that linguistic studies have with other disciplines in the humanities (history, philosophy, sociology, political science, gender studies, etc.) or with other artistic practices. Finally, they will learn about the social role of language, both in past history and in the evolution of contemporary societies, as well as the importance of linguistic and cultural transfers and translation. Finally, they will develop an understanding of the analysis of media discourse and of the relationship between language and the media, by identifying the contemporary challenges of a media language.
The Bachelor of Arts in Literature and French Language combines certain fundamental language and literature courses with methodological and cross-disciplinary artistic courses that are both theoretical and practical.This enables the acquisition of a general culture that is not focused exclusively on the linguistic and literary field but is open to the applications and engineering of language, from a perspective that takes into account the challenges of language in the labour market.
Access to the first academic Licence Lettres et Langue Française is open to all students with a baccalauréat in any subject. However, in order to enrol, two conditions must be met: 1) an overall baccalaureate average of at least 11/20, and 2) an overall average of at least 11/20 between the baccalaureate average and the baccalaureate marks in French and English.