French Studies and Music Degree Courses (WR31)

Course Overview

Lancaster's combined four-year French Studies and Music degree is taught by the Department of European Languages and Cultures and the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts (LICA), ranked top three in the UK for its research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. You will also spend a year in a French-speaking country.

Your French Studies course focuses on practical fluency underpinned by a thorough grounding in France's social, political and historical background. The Music aspect of your degree programme uniquely integrates theory and practice and offers specialist studies in musicology, musical analysis, composition and technology.

You'll start your degree following courses including French Studies (Intensive or Advanced); Music Theory, and Sound and Audio Technique. You'll take modules such as Shaping Contemporary France: Culture, Politics and the Legacy of History; French Language: Oral Skills, and French Language: Written Skills in your second year and then complete Residence Abroad: Intercultural and Academic Reflection in your third year. You'll finish your studies with modules in French Language; Oral Studies, and French Studies: Written Studies.

For a list of compulsory modules, please see the tab above.

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Career opportunities

Lancaster graduates are highly employable and language graduates are increasingly sought after. Our French graduates have taken up teaching careers in the UK and abroad and have found work with organisations such as the Diplomatic or Civil Service. Businesses often look for new graduates with language skills and our alumni have moved into diverse areas including accounting, journalism, library work and computing.

Our Music graduates possess an unusually wide range of subject-specific and transferable skills. Our graduates benefit from a grounding in contemporary arts theory and practice, which is an advantage for careers in the creative industries, broadcasting, marketing, publishing, music teaching, music production, arts management and other arts-related areas.

Many of our graduates also go on to postgraduate study in music-related subjects or pursue one of the postgraduate MA degrees offered at Lancaster.

Modules

Here are some of the current modules which are available during your studies at Lancaster:

PartI

French Studies (Advanced)
Part I French Studies (Intensive)

PartII (Year 2)

Composition
Contemporary Fine Art Practitioners
Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
Critical Reflections
Culture, Politics and the Legacy of History
Documentary Drawing
History of Electronic and Computer Music
Ideology and Politics in the Cinema
Introduction to Television Drama
LICA Work Placement
Modern Dance
Oral Skills
Oral skills (post-intensive)
Orchestration
Perception and the Arts
Postwar European Playwrights
Practical Studies II
Silent Cinema
Sound and space
Studio Technique
The Cultural History of American Film
The Evolution of America's Music
Written Skills
Written Skills (post-intensive)

PartII (Year 3)

intercultural and academic reflection

PartII (Year 4)

Analysing Popular Music
Contemporary Fine Art Practitioners
Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
Creative Enterprise
Dissertation
Documentary Drawing
History of Electronic and Computer Music
Ideology and Politics in the Cinema
Introduction to Television Drama
Music Composition
Music, Culture and 'The Hollow Years'
Oral Skills
Perception and the Arts
Rock and Roll in American Culture
Silent Cinema
Sound Synthesis and Design
Sound and space
The Cultural History of American Film
The Evolution of America's Music
Written Skills

For more detailed module information please visit the European Languages and Cultures department website.

Entry Requirements

A-level: AAB and the ability to read music inc. French unless this is to be studied from post-GCSE level, in which case we require GCSE French (grade A). We normally expect three A-levels. One A-level wiill usually be in Music or Music Technology.

General Studies: Accepted as one of 3 A-levels

Key skills: Not included in offer

Scottish Highers: ABBBB

Irish Leaving Cert: Offers will be made on the basis of 5 or 6 Higher level subjects. Please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office (01524 592028) for further information

International Bacc: 35 pts overall with 16 from best three HL courses

Mature students: Applications welcomed from mature students who can provide evidence of language-learning ability. Please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office (01524 592028) for further information
BTEC: Popular Music or Music Technology considered with normally at least DDD/DDM
IELTS: 6.5

For details of how we evaluate international qualifications, please click here.

Financial Support

Lancaster University's priority is to support every student to make the most of their life and education. In addition to government maintenance loans, grants and national scholarships, Lancaster University offers a range of financial support for full time UK Undergraduate students from lower-income backgrounds. Many students each year will be entitled to bursaries or scholarships to help them with the cost of fees and/or living expenses.

The Lancaster Scholarship package is designed to reward the hard work and natural ability of full-time UK students applying to study with us regardless of their household income. Students achieving A*, A, A in their A-level examinations (or equivalent academic qualifications) will receive a £1,000 per year Lancaster Scholarship during their undergraduate studies if they place us as their firm choice institution. Continuation of the Lancaster Scholarship is subject to satisfactory academic progression.

Our combined £5,000 bursary package will help students from England whose household incomes are less than £25,000 per year with fees and living costs.

Students from England eligible for our £5,000 bursary package will also be awarded a £3,000 Lancaster Scholarship if they achieve A*, A, A in their A-level examinations (or equivalent academic qualifications). This totals £8,000 of support for students during their studies.

For full details of the University's financial support packages including eligibility criteria, please visit our fees and funding page.