Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Music - French (W3R1)

Program Description By combining Music (75% of your course) with French (25%) you will take Music as the major element of your degree alongside core French language modules.

Studying Music at Royal Holloway allows you to tailor your studies to your own interests and passions.

Royal Holloway has expertise spanning traditional, modern and world music. Through studying musical texts, practices, cultures and institutions you will explore issues in history, sociology, ethnology, and philosophy covering an exceptional geographical and chronological range. You will also be able to gain practical skills in composition, music technology and performance.

You will join a music department that is among the very best in the country, ranked third in the UK for research quality (REF 2014) and the only music department in the country to hold a prestigious Regius Professorship.

• You will have access to well-equipped studios and recording facilities as well as incredible performance spaces including the Windsor Auditorium, Boilerhouse Theatre, Victorian Picture Gallery and College Chapel. • This well connected department means you have the opportunity to make valuable music industry contacts. Our staff are connected with musical networks such Wigmore Hall, the BBC Proms, Royal Opera House.

As a student of French, you will take core language modules, enabling you to learn to speak and write fluently.

As a part of Royal Holloway’s close-knit international community based in its beautiful historic campus, you will be within easy reach of London, sometimes referred to as ‘France’s sixth biggest city’, with its wealth of French cultural resources.

• Whether you are a beginner or advanced student when you start, by the time you graduate you will be fluent in French: confident in reading, understanding and analysing text and able to write with ease and accuracy.