This course provides you with the skills to become a versatile, inter-culturally aware and professional graduate able to speak, write and read French with confidence. You’ll combine language studies with exploring culture and society, learning about the diversity of French, to equip you for working with native speakers. You’ll enrich your study, and tailor your course, by choosing from optional modules in translation and interpreting, the conflicts of history, visual culture and cinema.Whether you are learning as a beginner or have a more advanced understanding of French, you’ll study the language of the media, commerce and cultural expression. You’ll gain a thorough knowledge of the global language, which is enhanced with a year abroad in a French-speaking context (in places such as Belgium, Canada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Senegal and Metropolitan France).Additional highlightsFrench staff are involved in the following specialist groups:Centre for Immersive Technologies University of LeedsCentre for Translation Studies School of Languages, Cultures and Societies University of LeedsCentre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures School of Languages, Cultures and Societies University of LeedsCentre for World Literatures School of Languages, Cultures and Societies University of LeedsCorrespondance generale de Benjamin Constant School of Languages, Cultures and Societies University of LeedsInstitute for Medieval Studies University of LeedsWriting1900Specialist facilitiesOur Language Zone gives you access to free learning resources, including space for personal study, language learning software, and video, audio, books and magazines. You'll also have access to our translation computer labs equipped with specialist software and our interpreter training booths to explore different career options.With four libraries on campus, you’ll find space for study, group work and research. The world class Brotherton Library holds a wide variety of archival and printed material in its Special Collections – valuable assets for your independent research. You’ll have access to free classes and workshops where you can learn how to use them.Our Martin Thomas Translation Labs feature state-of-the-art computing facilities for translation studies as well as Interpreter Training Suites – ideal if you are considering a career in interpreting.