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French Student Handbook 2009-2010 FRENCH STUDENT HANDBOOK 2009-2010 To be read in conjunction with the School of Modern Languages Handbook and the College’s Student Handbook, this handbook is specific to students taking French courses at RHUL. It has been put together by the French teaching staff and is designed to help you get the most out of your years of undergraduate study leading to the BA degree of the University of London. The information supplied in this handbook is intended for use of students in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway University of London. The School reserves the right to modify at any time any statement made therein and to amend the contents as deemed necessary by the Head of School. 2 CONTENTS Page Staff List ……………………………………………………………………..……….……..4 Staff Initials, Offices, Telephone Numbers and E-mails …………………………...……..5 Teaching and Research Interests of Staff………………………………………..….……...6 TABLE 1: Lectures/Seminars and Essay Deadlines ……………………………...….…....9 Degree Programmes ……………………………………………………..…………………..9 TABLE 2: Single, Major and Joint Degrees: French Components ……..……...….........13 Important Notices: (i) Progression Requirements ……………………………………………….…..14 (ii) Oral Exams ……………………………………………………………..…....14 TABLE 3: European Studies (French Group A), HYE/MHPYE and French Minor (including European Studies French Group C) ……………………………....……….…15 TABLE 4: Multilingual Studies, International Theatre (France) …………….…….…...16 French Prizes 2009 …………………………………………………………………...….….18 TABLE 5: Course Convenors 2008-2009 …………………………...………………….….19 TABLE 6: Course Specifications: Table of Contents ………………………………........20 Course Specifications – First Year……….…………………………………….……............ 22 Course Specifications – Second Year ………………………………………………....…......35 Course Specifications – Final Year and Course Options …………………………………….43 Period of Residence Abroad (PRA) …………………………………………………...…...51 The French Society…………………………………………………………….……….........52 French Resources Information …………………………………………………...….….… 53 Using French Accents and special characters ...……………………………………..…... 55 3 STAFF LIST Dr Timothy Chesters (PRA Coordinator – Universities Term 1, School Webmaster) Dr Ruth Cruickshank (Sabbatical Term 1, PRA Coordinator – Assistantships and Work Placements and History and Year Abroad Coordinator Terms 2-3) Professor Colin Davis (School Director of Research and Director of MA programme) Dr Joseph Harris (Sabbatical Term 2, ELCs Coordinator) Dr Ruth Harvey (Exams Term , Library) Dr Ruth Hemus (leave 2009-10, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) Dr Marie Landick (leave 2009-10) Dr Áine Larkin (Visiting French Teacher) Professor John O’Brien (School Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty Research Committee) Professor Eric Robertson (Head of French, PRA Co-ordinator – Assistantships and Work Placements Term 1) Dr Emily Salines (Senior Language Advisor and External programme, Multilingual Studies Coordinator) Dr Hannah Thompson (Deputy Head of School, Head of Admissions) Dr Michèle Vincent Dr Adam Watt (Sabbatical Term 1, PRA Coordinator – Universities, School ESO coordinator, Terms 2-3) Professor James Williams (Academic Coordinator, Film Studies Coordinator and University of London in Paris (ULIP) Coordinator) Lectrices Mlle Jean Chiron Mlle Anne-Célia Feutrie Mlle Laélia Véron Administrative Staff in the School of Modern Languages Mrs Ann Hobbs Ms Sarah Midson Ms Helen Thomas Mlle Catherine Thorin (Senior Faculty Administrator) 4 STAFF INITIALS, OFFICES, PHONE NUMBERS AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES The list below includes all members of staff with whom you may have contact, including visiting lecturers and postgraduate tutors. Extensions commencing with the digit 3 are available by direct dial by prefixing them with 44. So, for example, to ring Dr Harvey on 3241 from outside the College or from a mobile, you need to dial (01784) 443241. All rooms listed below are in the International Building and should be prefixed with IN, eg Dr Harvey 110 = IN110. Teaching Staff Initials Room Phone e-mail Dr Chesters (TC) 101 3741 [email protected] Mlle Chiron (JC) 116 3251 [email protected] Dr Cruickshank (RC) 117 3252 [email protected] Prof Davis (CD) 102 3253 [email protected] Mlle Feutrie (ACF) 116 3251 [email protected] Dr Harris (JHr) 120 3243 [email protected] Dr Harvey (RH) 118 3241 [email protected] Dr Landick (ML) 114 3248 [email protected] Prof O’Brien (JO’B) 112 3861 j.o’[email protected] Prof Robertson (ER) 119 3257 [email protected] Dr Salines (ES) 115 3742 [email protected] Dr Thompson (HT) 113 3975 [email protected] Mlle Véron (LV) 116 3251 [email protected] Dr Vincent (MV) 114 3248 [email protected] Dr Watt (AWt) 105 3740 [email protected] Prof Williams (JW) 111 3249 [email protected] Part-time lecturers and Teaching Fellows Dr Larkin (AL) 161 3739 [email protected] Departmental numbers 01784 443244/3254/3201/ 01784 414310/ (Office) Fax 01784 470180 Senior Administrator in charge of Departmental Office Mlle Catherine Thorin 124 4310 [email protected] Modern Languages administrative staff: Mrs Ann Hobbs 123 3201 [email protected] Ms Sarah Midson 123 3753 [email protected] Ms Helen Thomas 123 3244 [email protected] 5 TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS OF STAFF French is one of the leading French sections in the country. Our French staff boast a wide range of research and pedagogical expertise, from literature of the medieval period to the present, to diverse interests in the visual image, poetry, autobiography, linguistics, cultural and intellectual history. Dr Timothy Chesters is a specialist in the relationship between demonology and literature in early modern France. He is the author of articles on Ronsard and Jean de La Taille, and is currently writing a book on ghosts and apparitions in late Renaissance France. His other research interests include the history of the book and libertine narrative. Dr Ruth Cruickshank is a specialist in post-war French fiction, film and thought, with particular interests in the impact and representation of consumerism, globalisation and neo- imperialism in post-war French cultural production; and in contemporary fiction. She is the author of Fin de millénaire French Fiction: The Aesthetics of Crisis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) and of articles on Ernaux, Houellebecq, Redonnet, symbolic violence and global market economics in recent filmic images of Paris, the cinema of the Trente glorieuses, Denis and Varda. She is currently writing a book on the relationship between representations of food and conceptions of identity in post-war France: Leftovers: The Politics of Food in Post-war French Fiction, Film and Thought. Professor Colin Davis is a specialist in twentieth-century French literature, film and thought, with interests including ethics, ethical criticism, Holocaust literature, recent fiction, and the connections between philosophy, fiction and film. He is the author of Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction (1988), Elie Wiesel's Secretive Texts (1994), Levinas: An Introduction (1996), Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century French Fiction: Killing the Other (2000), French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years: Memory, Narrative, Desire (co-written with Elizabeth Fallaize, 2000), After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory (2004), Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead (2007), and Scenes of Love and Murder: Renoir, Film and Philosophy (2009). He is currently writing a book on philosophical interpretations of literature and film. Dr Joseph Harris is a specialist in early-modern French literature, especially seventeenth- and eighteenth-century drama. His research interests include gender, sexuality and queer theory, comedy and laughter, reception and audience response, and sensibility and identification. He is the author of Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005) and co-editor of Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations (2004). He is currently working on theories of spectatorship in sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century French theatre, identification in pre-twentieth-century France, and sensibility in the eighteenth century. Professor Ruth Harvey is a specialist in medieval French and Occitan literature. She is the author of The Troubadour Marcabru and Love, a major critical edition of Marcabru's works, and articles on medieval Occitan literature and society. She is currently completing a collaborative edition of over 150 troubadour dialogue-songs and her next project is a study of courtly culture and society. Dr Ruth Hemus is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, working on a two-year project entitled Writing, gender and identity in the avant-garde. Her research interests lie in European modernist and avant-garde movements, spanning literature, performance and visual arts, and with a particular focus on gender. Her first book, Dada's Women, was published by Yale University Press in 2009. 6 Dr Áine Larkin is a specialist in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, with a particular interest in photography and its relationship with literature. She has written articles on the roles of food, music, and X-rays in novels, and is currently completing a book on Marcel Proust and photography. Professor John O'Brien is the author of Anacreon Redivivus, editor of (Ré) interprétations, and co-editor of Montaigne et la rhétorique, Belleau's Les Odes d'Anacréon, Distant Voices Still Heard, and La familia de Montaigne.
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