Teaching

Showcasing the diversity of French & Francophone studies across UCL, including literary studies, history, philosophy, art history, anthropology, global health and the physical sciences.

UCL offers a French BA as well as various combined degrees. There are also evening language classes available.

Beside language teaching, several departments offer modules relevant to Francophone regions, from ancient and modern history to contemporary politics, archaeology and material culture, anthropology and geography. This includes:

Undergraduate

• Acting in French (FREN0094)
• At the Crossroads of Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in the 20th and 21st Centuries (DUTC0006)
• A Century of Conflict and Crisis: France, 1870-1970 (FREN0074)
• Citizenship and Nationhood in France Today (FREN0016)
• Colonialism and Africa, c. 1800-2000 (HIST0929)
• Contemporary Politics and Governance in Africa (POLS0087)
• Contesting Frenchness: Francophone Literatures (FREN0018)
• Cultures of Conflict (ELCS0039)
• Dominating Texts: Literary Power Relations in 20th Century Writing (FREN0025)
• Encountering Difference in Modern French Theatre  (FREN0093)
• European Legal Studies (French) I (LAWS0003)
• France: Culture and Society (FREN0016)
• French Existentialism: Sartre, Coffee, and Cigarettes (FREN0084)
• French Film History (FREN0017)
• French Literature 1 (FREN0069)
• Music, Film and Media in Africa (LITC0009)
• Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe (ELCS0032)
• Postcolonial Geographies of African Development (GEOG0054)
• Republicanism and Identity Politics in France Today (ESPS0019)
• The Haitian Revolution (AMER0081)
• The Making of Modern France (FREN0005)
• The West African Sahel in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History from Local Sources. (HIST0894)

Postgraduate

• African Studies and Education (CMII0008)
• Art and Technology in Nineteenth Century France (HART0127)
• Cultures of AIDS in France: History, Policy and Representation (FREN0038)
• Decolonization and Development in Africa (HIST0777)
• Education Traditions and Systems in Europe (EDPS0135)
• Fiction and the Archives: Rewriting Criminal Stories in Early Modern France (FREN0043)
• Low Countries Cinema  (DUTC0034)
• Merleau-Ponty and the History of Social Thought (HIST0750)
• Planning Practices in Europe (BPLN0013)
• Topics in Modern French History: À la guerre comme à la guerre: France and the First World War (FREN0048)