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Undergraduate
BA French
Who
is it for?
There are
many good reasons for choosing to study for a degree in
a modern European language:
- French, German, Italian
and Spanish are key languages in Europe today, with
an ever-strengthening role. As you advance towards the
standard required for graduate status, you will inevitably
acquire the ability to read, speak and write a European
language accurately and with ease
- you will also be developing
the incisiveness and confidence which come with appraising
intellectual issues: with each essay you write, you
exercise and refine your judgement
- degree-level work gives
you an intimate first-hand familiarity with a European
culture which will put you on a cosmopolitan 'wavelength'
in life and in your reading
- exploration of another
culture, past as well as present, is an enriching experience,
giving historical perspective and enhanced moral, cultural,
social and aesthetic vision
- alongside these intrinsic
reasons, there may well be (legitimately) an ulterior
reason: to enhance your career prospects. Graduates
in these subjects can expect to have achieved a broad
range of transferable skills, communicative competence
and the ability to discriminate and analyse
- the intellectual and
personal qualities which degree-level work in the humanities
develops are in demand in the work-place, particularly
now, as Europe becomes one nation.
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