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Final Year French: Final Year Project OR Reading History as Literature?

  • 17-09-2009 9:21am
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    Barry89
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    We have a choice for final year French between a Final Year Project on any aspect of 20th Century France and a course called "Reading History as Literature"... anybody here who has chosen one over the other and been content/totally disappointed with the result?

    Please let me know! I've gotten a good outline of what will be covered in RHAL but I'm not sure whether it will be very difficult to pick up marks in it or not...

    Thanks in advance!



    FR370: French Final Year Project
    Semester: 1
    Lecturers: Dr. P. Dine, (Prof. J. Conroy: on sabbatical in 0910)
    Course Description: The aim of this module is to enable students to acquire and articulate a detailed
    understanding of a specialist topic relating to contemporary France, through the preparation of a
    dissertation in French of approximately 3,000 4,000
    words. On completion of the module students should
    have developed their informationgathering,
    analytical, linguistic, and presentational skills, thus enabling
    them to carry out independent research and communicate the results of that research.
    Methods of assessment and examination: Extended essay/dissertation of approximately 3,000 4,000
    words
    in French. Material presented in the dissertation may also be examined by a viva voce examination at the
    discretion of the responsible examiners.
    Deadline for submission is 5.00 pm on the last teaching day (end Week 12) of Semester I.
    FR310: Reading History as Literature
    Semester: 1
    Contact hours: 12 lectures and 6 Tutorials
    Lecturer: Dr. C. Emerson
    Course description: All too often literature is contrasted with history on the grounds that, while the first is
    subjective, the second is objective, providing an unproblematic record of events as they happened. This
    course seeks to throw critical light on this assumption, taking a work of nineteenthcentury
    narrative history
    as a starting point. Using modern theories of history writing, the course will examine how history is
    presented and explain the reasons behind this presentation.
    Teaching and learning methods: Lectures, tutorials and seminars
    Methods of assessment and examination: 1hour
    examination.
    Core text: Michelet, Jeanne d'Arc – available at start of course from lecturer.


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