Honours Program
- Honours co-ordinator
- Admission prerequisites
- Course structure
- Areas of supervision
- Past projects supervised by members of the program
- Further information
Honours co-ordinator
Philip Anderson
Email: Philip.Anderson@monash.edu
Admission prerequisites
For entry requirements, see the Honours degree of Bachelor of Arts handbook entry.
Mid-year entry is offered subject to places being available.
Students wishing to enrol in Honours must approach the Honours coordinator with suggestions as to which kind of research project they would like to do (see possible areas below). They can also approach potential supervisors directly.
Course structure
See the French Studies - Honours Area of Study for information regarding available units and thesis requirements.
The thesis can be written in English or French. Students are encouraged to write their thesis in French if they have reached an appropriate level of proficiency. Students should consult with their supervisor before making that choice.
It is also possible for students to do part or all of their coursework through study abroad. Coursework enrolment depends on the availability of units in any given year, as well as the specific profile of students. Students are thus advised to contact the Honours coordinator to establish their coursework plan before completing enrolment procedures.
Supervision is available in a range of aspects of French studies
- French social theory, French politics and society (including the questions of French Republicanism and national identity, Religion and French society, France and European integration)
- Ethnological and sociological approaches to contemporary France (including Islamism in France)
- French Popular Culture (including French Hip Hop and French Rap)
- The contemporary novel, poetry and cinema (e.g. Houellebecq, Echenoz and Manchette, Duras, Ernaux, Godard and Beinex)
- Nineteenth-century French literature
- Translation Studies
- Teaching/Learning French as a foreign language - FLE (including writing in a foreign language, cognitive processes and computer-aided writing environments, collaborative learning and interactions, human-computer interactions)
- Intercultural communication, French business and economic development
Examples of past or current Honours projects supervised by members of the program
- L’Europe face à la crise irakienne
- Une liaison dangereuse: les femmes et l’individualisme français
- Face à L’Islam : Républicanisme et multiculturalisme
- Les relations franco-allemandes: engrenage central de l’intégration européenne 1945-1999
- Les notions de « constitutionalité » et de « patrimoine » dans le débat sur la ratification de la Charte européenne des langues régionales ou minoritaires
- Conjuguées au masculin : représentations de femmes dans des films sur la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, l’Occupation et la Résistance.
- L'espace de l'ethnicité et la construction du sujet dans le rap d'NTM
- Écritures du moi féminin (ou) au-delà de l’autobiographie
- Déconstruction du mythe de Carmen
- Diva et le cinéma rhizomatique
- « L’Assommoir » de Zola : rite et tragédie
- La politique monstrueuse : l’anarchisme d’ « A rebours »
- La Fleur du mal : Salomé et la misogynie de la fin-de-siècle. L’exemple d’ « A rebours »
- La loi Toubon et la défense de la langue française: une bataille imaginaire?
Supervision is also available in conjunction with other Arts disciplines as part of a joint Honours candidature. Joint supervision with Law is also available as part of a candidature for Honours in Arts.
Further information
For more information, contact Philip Anderson .
For information on combined honours and disciplines, see the Undergraduate Handbook entry for Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree.