Department of French
French Scheduled papers for Part II
In addition to the new French language papers and the Year Abroad Project, you must offer three scheduled papers at Part II (or two papers plus an Optional Dissertation).
The scheduled papers and the dissertation(s) may all relate to one language area or may be spread over different language areas. It is always advisable to take at least one scheduled paper with components in the same language as your language papers because the books that you read will feed into your language work, helping your fluency in reading and writing, and extending your vocabulary.
The following papers will be available for Part II from 2012/2013:
- Fr 7: Topics in medieval studies: Defining the Human. (formerly Fr5)
- Fr 8: Living, loving, and dying in Renaissance France. (formerly Fr6)
- Fr 9: Reason, experience, and authority: French literature, thought, and history, 1594-1700. (formerly Fr7)
- Fr 10: French literature, thought, and history, from 1690 to 1799. (formerly Fr8)
- Fr 11: Gender, desire, and power in Nineteenth-Century French Culture. (formerly Fr9)
- Fr 12: Ethics and experience: literature, thought, and visual culture of the French-speaking world (1900 to the present). (formerly papers Fr10 and Fr11)
- Fr 13: The French language: variation and change.Suspended for 2012/2013
- Fr 14: A special topic in French studies (A): Theatre: theory and practice. This paper will be taught for the first time in 2013/2014
- Fr 15: A special topic in French studies (B): Ethics and the erotic in Medieval Occitan writing. (formerly Fr4)
- Fr 16: A special topic in French studies (C): Colonization, Empire and Globalization: Technologies of Space in French Culture since 1700.
Comparative Studies papers - which cover languages and topics beyond departmental boundaries - are also available. Students may take one comparative paper of the two papers CS 5 and CS 6, but there is no such restriction in respect of papers CS 1 and CS 3.
All MML Tripos Part II Papers (including the Comparative options) are listed in Schedule II.
Finally in Part II, students may also 'borrow' up two papers from other Triposes, as listed in Schedule D.
