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

• Africa, Decolonization and Internationalism (HIST0087)
• At the Crossroads of Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in the 20th and 21st Centuries (DUTC0006)
• Black Europe (ELCS0030)
• Contemporary Culture and History of the Low Countries (DUTC0013)
• Contemporary Politics and Governance in Africa (POLS0087)
• Contesting Frenchness: Francophone Literatures (FREN0018)
• Cultures of Conflict (ELCS0039)
• European Legal Studies (French) I (LAWS0003)
• Europe's First World War, 1911-1923 (HIST0778)
• France: Culture and Society (FREN0016)
• French Film History (FREN0017)
• French Literature 1 (FREN0069)
• Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe (ELCS0032)
• Postcolonial Geographies of African Development (GEOG0054)
• Republicanism and Identity Politics in France Today (ESPS0019)
• Staging Europe: Modern European Drama and Theatre (SEEE0011)
• 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)
• Cultures of AIDS in France: History, Policy and Representation (FREN0038)
• Decolonization and Development in Africa (HIST0777)
• Education Traditions and Systems in Europe (EDPS0135)
• Planning Practices in Europe (BPLN0013)
• The Front National and Far Right Politics in France (FREN0044)