Module Information
Module Identifier
FR12910
Module Title
Images of France: The French Family
Academic Year
2025/2026
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 2
Pre-Requisite
Eligibility for entry to Level 1 French
Reading List
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Continuous assessment 1 x 1,500-2,000-word essay. | 50% |
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours written examination (2 essay questions, equally weighted). | 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit all failed or missed elements | 50% |
| Supplementary Exam | 2 Hours Resit the exam if failed or missed | 50% |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Read and interpret literary texts, with an awareness of its generic and historical particularities.
2. Conduct basic level research, understanding short texts of secondary literature.
3. Show a good awareness of the historical and intellectual context of the period (the family in 20th-c France).
4. Develop their expression both in speaking and in writing.
5. Understand the relationship between form and content of literary text.
Brief description
This module, divided in two parts and taught in French, will first explore the literary representation of a rural happy childhood in France over the first half of the 20th c., then the literary dealings with an urban problematic childhood over the 2nd half of the 20th c.
With the combined reading of deliberately short autobiographical texts by major French novelists and some relevant films, the objective is to allow students to assimilate their reading practice as well as to deepen their understanding of general themes more confidently.
With the combined reading of deliberately short autobiographical texts by major French novelists and some relevant films, the objective is to allow students to assimilate their reading practice as well as to deepen their understanding of general themes more confidently.
Aims
The aims of this module are to introduce students to French literary texts, to facilitate and to encourage their reading of French 20th c. literature.
With this module, students will develop a two-fold awareness of, on the one hand, the representation of childhood, and, on the other hand, the articulation of the relationship between memory and literature in some French contemporary, mostly short and autobiographical texts.
Your essays and your exam answers cannot overlap. If you have in depth discussed a question in your essay, you cannot discuss it again extensively in your exam. If you do, your marks will reflect this: depending on the amount of reused material, a 50% reduction will be applied. If half of your exam answer is re-used, your exam mark will be reduced by 25%, etc.
Plagiarism, unreferenced used of foreign materials and excessive quote are not tolerated. Any plagiarised material will be considered inexistent, and depending on the amount of plagiarised materials penalties will be introduced: every plagiarised paragraph will lead to 10% deduction of the mark. Over 33% of plagiarised content the issue will be handled at departmental level.
With this module, students will develop a two-fold awareness of, on the one hand, the representation of childhood, and, on the other hand, the articulation of the relationship between memory and literature in some French contemporary, mostly short and autobiographical texts.
Your essays and your exam answers cannot overlap. If you have in depth discussed a question in your essay, you cannot discuss it again extensively in your exam. If you do, your marks will reflect this: depending on the amount of reused material, a 50% reduction will be applied. If half of your exam answer is re-used, your exam mark will be reduced by 25%, etc.
Plagiarism, unreferenced used of foreign materials and excessive quote are not tolerated. Any plagiarised material will be considered inexistent, and depending on the amount of plagiarised materials penalties will be introduced: every plagiarised paragraph will lead to 10% deduction of the mark. Over 33% of plagiarised content the issue will be handled at departmental level.
Content
The module will consist of a study of the following texts/documents: Annie Ernaux, La Place (1983) ; Azouz BEGAG, Le Gone du Chaaba (1986).
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | Not really developed. |
| Communication | Oral communication developed in seminars (not assessed); written communication developed in assessments and exam. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Students will be able to assess their own progress week by week through their increased understanding of the issues raised and the skills developed. |
| Information Technology | Use of on-line journals and source collections; delivery of course materials and information via email and e-learning system. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Acquisition of transferable skills; acquaintance with literary study as an academic subject. |
| Problem solving | Selection of reading material; answering questions posed by written assessment; seminar work. |
| Research skills | Preparation of written assessment; preparation for seminars. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Acquisition of French language skills. |
| Team work | Discussions in seminars. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4