BA (Hons) French and Psychology Bachelor's degree at Strathclyde

Semester 1 course organised around linguistic progression towards level B1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, with cultural background including lectures on The Making of Modern France, France in a Global Context, Understanding the French Republic, French Identities, and Contemporary French Society

Semester 2 course organised around linguistic progression towards level B1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, with cultural background including lectures on The Making of Modern France, France in a Global Context, Understanding the French Republic, French Identities, and Contemporary French Society, plus introductory lecture 'What is translation about?'

Semester 1 class exploring learning theory, developmental psychology, personality, biological psychology, and the scientific basis for psychology. No prior knowledge of psychology expected.

Semester 2 class covering sensation and perception, cognitive psychology, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and research methods

Language class with cultural focus on time (35 hour week, RTT and 'ponts', paternity/maternity leave) and 'human resources' (hierarchical organisation, discrimination, unions, relocation). Linguistic focus: the negation, asking questions, using pronouns.

Language class with cultural focus on the origins of the European ideal, Europe and the EU viewed from France. Linguistic focus: subjunctive mood.

Language class with cultural focus on a historical view of immigration in France and the specificity of the French 'integration' system. Linguistic focus: the system of tenses in French (concentrating on past tenses).

Language class with cultural focus on French politics, concentrating on topical issues. Linguistic focus: modal verbs.

Language class with cultural focus on decentralisation and importance of regions in France. Linguistic focus: the passive voice.

Language class with cultural focus on the French economy (role of the state) and marketing à la française. Linguistic focus: equivalent of –ing in French.

Class focusing on the Occupation and French Colonialism/Decolonisation. Analysis of texts and films including Au Revoir les Enfants (film, Malle), Stupeur et Tremblements (text, Nothomb), L'Étranger (text, Camus), Le Samourai (film, Melville), and anthologies of historical texts relating to the Second World War and French Colonialism/Immigration.

Class revealing how understanding of higher mental functions has been enhanced through theoretical and experimental studies of normal human cognition and neuropsychological studies of how cognitive functions may be damaged as a result of brain lesions. Topics covered include disorders of the perceptual system, memory and attention, and the role of the frontal lobes in planning, motivation, emotion, and personality.

Class introducing social psychological theories and research providing insights into why people believe what they believe and why they behave the way they do. Topics covered include attribution theory, aggression, prosocial behaviour, group influence, norms, conformity, obedience, and attitudes. Ends with introduction to health psychology and application to pressing real-world health issues such as dietary behaviour, smoking/alcohol-use, and suicide.

Introduction to main features of measurement, research design, and statistical analysis in psychology. Covers fundamental concepts, issues, and debates in research methods, conceptual basis for inferential statistical testing, different inferential statistics, and brief introduction to qualitative research methods.

Language class with cultural focus on a historical review of slavery and modern forms of slavery. Linguistic focus: reinforcement work on subjunctive mood, passive voice and negative forms.

Language class with cultural focus on the impact of consumerism on the environment. Linguistic focus: adjectives and comparative, hypothesis, conditional mood.

Language class with cultural focus on current issues in the French education system. Linguistic focus: reported speech, imperative mood, a further look at pronouns.

Practical module aiming at preparing students for the year abroad.

Class based on study of Freedom and Identity in France and the Francophone world through texts and films including Milou en mai (film, Malle), Poverty (various texts), The Dreyfus Affair (various historical texts), Monsieur Klein (film, Losey), Rue des Boutiques Obscures (text, Modiano), and National Identity in the Third Republic (various historical texts).

Class equipping with a broader, more advanced set of methodological and analytic skills essential for carrying out the year 4 dissertation and for being able to read and understand articles published in academic journals.

Encourages scientific thinking about conceptual and practical issues related to the study of individual differences, with specific reference to intelligence and personality. Includes opportunity to put knowledge into practice by designing own measurement instrument.

Introduction to core topics in cognitive psychology including perception and action (particularly how we perceive time and recognise faces), memory and learning (including models of episodic and working memory), language (including word production, sentence comprehension, and discourse processing), and thinking (specifically problem solving, deductive reasoning and judgement and decision making).

Reviews ways that children develop from infancy right through to the end of adolescence. Key theories are presented and used to explore whether children's development is continuous or stage-like and whether specific skills develop more quickly than others. Issues relating to infancy, 'theory of mind' (understanding others' thoughts and beliefs), executive function (planning and monitoring abilities), language, and communication form the core themes.

Provides opportunity to learn basic principles of brain function and address implications for understanding how behaviour is generated. Includes coverage of electrophysiology and psychopharmacology, neuroanatomy, research methods in neuroscience. Focused sections relating to the visual system and the motor system.

Allows consideration of current ideas and positions within social psychology. Four themes drive the class: Attitudes and attitude change (covering the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Health Belief Model), Identity (with focus on social, personal and group identities), Prejudice (connecting attitudes and identities, covering social representations, stereotyping, prejudice and conflict), and Epistemology (consideration of theory of knowledge and how social psychological knowledge is produced).