Why Study French?
In today’s global environment, expertise in modern languages has never been more important. Intercultural knowledge and multilingual skills are highly valued by employers and will give you a competitive edge in the international marketplace.
At Bangor we offer a range of courses allowing you to study French alone or as part of a joint-language degree, a 3-language degree, or even in combination with another subject.
Following a single honours courses will allow you to follow a full range of options, equipping you with extensive knowledge of the heritage and life of the modern French nation, and awareness of the wider Francophone world.
Combining French with another subject or language(s) will give you advanced skills in the French language, and a broad range of specialised and detailed insights into the culture, society and history that go with it.
We offer learning in small classes, where you get to know the staff and your fellow students in a friendly environment. At the same time, our very large and varied range of modules enables you to tailor your degree to your personal needs.
A number of our courses allow you to study French as a beginner. This option is available for many of our degrees where French is combined with another subject. Please see our course information for more details.
You will benefit from an on-site dedicated Modern Languages centre and translation equipment.
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BA Law with French
"The lecturers and teachers are all very engaging with great communication and feedback. You can go to them for absolutely anything."
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1:06 We provide workshop for students ahead of career fairs so that they can get the most out of the
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1:29 labour market with thousands of other students so we want to focus on producing confidence, aspiring
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1:39 got a very good mix of employers across many different disciplines that would appeal to a range
1:46 of students that we have within the college and the feedback that we're getting is very positive
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0:07 It's really nice after covid to come back and be in one place and meet potential employers face to face and really
0:14 see what's out there. It's hard to ignore all the opportunities that are ahead of me when they're
0:20 literally in the room in front of you and it's so nice to be out and about networking and meeting
0:25 people who have never done it before. Know what you want coming in filter out what you don't want
0:30 look for what you do want. Come prepared and ready to sort of present yourself as an opportunity
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0:48 So at this point, this event is really really crucial for me because I'm in my final year now so I am already looking for a
0:54 graduate job and obviously I've spoken to so many employers to generate leads so when I graduate and
0:59 I've got a pipeline where I'm going to go and I've got a job planned already.
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1:14 you build not your academic skills but your interpersonal skills which are really really
1:18 crucial in this competitive job market these days you don't only need academic skill you need
1:23 interpersonal skills as well these activities are a really important part of your studies.
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1:43 students to come and see that yes there are more like opportunities than you think there is.
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1:51 So we've been developing like CV work right now so I've had a look at my CV and what sort of things I want to do
1:56 so that's really helped me for future career advice and things like that. It helps students explore different places they can go
2:02 ask questions that tutors or professors may not be able to ask. Come prepared
2:07 that's a massive thing do your research and even if it's just a five minute search into the
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2:24 will go up massively know what you're going to do and you're going to be perfectly fine.
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Where is Bangor?
Our Research in French
Our Research Our international research profile in modern languages is derived from the dynamic work of academic and research staff, who have built major individual and collaborative projects in the histories, cultures and politics of the Francophone, Hispanic, German and Italian-speaking worlds, with a growing specialism in Translation Studies and Chinese Studies.
We are proud of our strong performance in the Government’s Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), which judged 76% of our research to be internationally excellent or world-leading, with particularly outstanding results on our research impact.
Particular research strengths lie in postcolonial approaches to Francophone and Iberian Cultures, the politics of memory and memorialisation, travel writing, Catalan and Galician Studies, Italian organised crime, translation, power and critical discourse, film and national identities, popular culture and comics, material cultures and material texts, visual cultures and contemporary art.
Our students benefit from a lively and inclusive research community. Not only does our research inform our teaching, we also run an exciting Research Forum each term, comprising a variety of events, including talks from visiting scholars and our own research staff and students, book launches and art, music and poetry performances.
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