Your experience of learning French language at UEA will include a combination of lectures, seminars and conversation classes. It will cover grammar, translation from and into French, reading and listening comprehension, précis and paraphrase work, the study of different styles and registers, lexical exercises and oral work. While you will have 4 hours/week contact time in your language modules, you will also spend a significant proportion of your time working independently using subject-oriented teaching dossiers, radio, TV, films, CDs and DVDs, transcripts, newspapers and online resources as well as keeping abreast of current affairs and cultural life at home and abroad. 
You will acquire specific expertise in the traditional language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, as well as transferable skills such as time management, self-discipline and self-motivation, intercultural awareness, flexibility and resourcefulness, mediation skills, IT literacy and teamwork. As you move through the degree, you will consolidate the basics of your French language and progressively improve the complexity and sophistication of your written and oral expression. In your second year, depending on numbers, you have the opportunity to do specialist language work in Interpreting, French for Business or French Law and Society while project work undertaken in the year abroad feeds into your final year modules where you develop formal writing and speaking skills to a high level. The year abroad (click here for more details) is assessed on a pass/fail basis.
Click here for a summary of the aims and objectives of French honours language degree programmes at UEA.
The language component is delivered in the context of specific degree programmes (Translation and Media, Translation and Interpreting, Modern Languages,French andManagement Studies, and French and Development Studies. While cultural content forms the basis of all the language work, there are also French-related modules that you will be able to choose depending on the degree on which you are enrolled. Modules such as French Language in Action, France Through the Eye of the Lens, Aspects of the French language while modules such as Translation Issues in the Media, Subtitling and Dubbing, Translation and Adaptation, and Translation Work Experience enable you to apply work on French to the examples you bring to class and the project work you undertake.
The way in which we teach French language at UEA is distinctive because it offers the possibility of acquiring transferable verbal communication and presentational skills which enhance your confidence, and which are much sought after by employers. These skills can include coherent structure and argument with appropriate supporting evidence, voice work (vocal projection, pronunciation, rhythm and intonation), eye contact, poise and posture, speaking from notes, improvisation, and organisation of information.
These are skills which will serve you in individual and class presentations in French, but also in other subjects you may be studying, as well as in interviews and professional presentations in your future career. Emphasis on these skills is a consistent feature of all our French language units, and we also provide the optional level 1 and level 2 module mentioned above, French Language in Action, which enables you to hone these skills and work them up into an assessed project performance. Students also have the opportunity to take part in regular French language staff-student French drama productions. Visist French theatre at UEA for more details. 
You can study French in the School of Language and Communication Studies at UEA on the following degrees: Translation, Media and French; French and Management Studies; Translation and Interpreting; French with International development Studies; Modern Languages (French). It is possible to combine the study of French with the equal study of Spanish. It is also possible to combine the study of French with Spanish studied to degree level from GCSE level or from beginners’ level.
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List of UEA degrees with which you can study French in the other Schools of Study at UEA. If you are interested in these degrees, you need to contact the relevant School directly:
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