HDip in Arts - French

University College Cork

The Higher Diploma in French is aimed at graduates who want to be considered for a master’s course in French, but do not have an honours degree in French, or who want to add a Higher Diploma in Arts subject to their qualifications.Objectives of the course: to provide you with opportunities to further develop your skills in the study and the use of the French language to provide you with opportunities to extend and deepen your skills in the reading and discussion of texts to introduce you to work in specialised areas of French as a multidisciplinary subject to give you a sense of French culture in French-speaking countries around the worldThe modules on offer, are in the main, those offered to second-year and final-year degree students. French as a degree-level subject is organised into a number of distinct elements: language modules on reading, writing, speaking and listening core modules dealing with the study of culture and literature specialised modules covering different areas of French as a multidisciplinary subject, including literary studies, linguistics, French thought and the history of ideas, cultural studies, French society and institutions, and the francophone world.