Spoken across Europe, Africa and North America, French continues to play an important role on the global stage. Learn French and immerse yourself in French literature, history, politics, philosophy, film and linguistics.
On our French courses, you’ll improve your written and spoken French while studying topics such as race and ethnicity, migration and globalisation, gender and sexual identity, phonetics and syntax, and conflict and cultural memory. You'll also develop the skills needed for careers in audio-visual translation and public service interpreting. For your year abroad you can complete a study placement in a university, a British Council teaching assistantship in a school or a work placement. Recent students have spent their year abroad in France, Belgium, Canada and Switzerland. French is a close-knit learning community with small class-sizes to maximise your contact time. Students can go on to master's degrees in Language and Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.
Combine French with other subjects
Mix your studies with other languages, linguistics, business management, English literature or history
We offer a range of French degrees. You can study French on its own or alongside other languages such as German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian and Arabic. You can also combine French with Linguistics, Business Management, English or History. If you're a complete beginner you can learn French on our Language, Culture and Communication degree.
Killer spiders, giant squids, and man-eating flowers! My teaching and research examine how culture in the French language depicts women as monsters and generates fears of the female body through references to nature.
My teaching in French linguistics explores how a lot of the differences that we encounter between French and English – vowel and consonant sounds, syllables, words and sentence structures – can be explained and demystified using linguistic analysis.
Did you know that the French authorities created a series of ‘concentration’ camps to intern refugees before the start of WWII? My teaching and research focuses on discovering the experiences, histories and memories of refugees and other ethnic minority groups in France.
Student stories
The close-knit academic community of my course helped shape my career path
Discover how Joe's course transformed not just his language skills, but also his career through a powerful network of support and community.
