MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Caution Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

French section

Master of Arts by research Students who have Honours 2A or above or the equivalent may enrol for an MA by thesis alone. As part of their preparation they will receive appropriate instruction in reference bibliography. The thesis consists of 40,000-60,000 words

Master of Arts by coursework and by coursework and thesis

The minimum requirement for entry to Part I (forty-eight points; one year full-time or normally two years part-time) of the MA program is a pass degree with credit level grades or better in at least the third part of a major sequence in French. The minimum level for direct entry to Part II (forty-eight points; one-year full-time or normally two-years part-time) of the MA program is an honours degree with a grade of H2B or better in French (MA by coursework only) or an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in French (MA by coursework and thesis). In all cases qualifications deemed to be equivalent by the faculty board may be accepted for entry to the various levels of the MA program.

MA Part I

The program will normally be as follows:

(i) FRM4140.16 French language IV

(ii) FRM4200.16 French dissertation

(iii) two of the following:

+ FRM4310.08 French linguistics: topics in syntax and semantics

+ FRM4370.08 Introduction to French phonology

+ FRM4610.08 Seventeenth-century French theatre

+ FRM4850.08 Reading the feminine

+ FRM4890.08 The making of modern Paris, 1760-1860

+ FRM4910.08 Culture and difference: contemporary francophone fiction

+ FRM4960.08 Special reading course in French I

+ FRM4970.08 Special reading course in French II

MA Part II

Either four of the twelve-point semester subjects from the following list (not all of which will be available every year), or two of the listed subjects in their eight-point form plus a thesis (25,000-35,000 words).

All students will attend an introductory workshop on reference bibliography as part of their preparation for chosen subjects and/or for the thesis.

+ FRM5010.08/12 Bibliography and textual scholarship (in the Department of Librarianship)

+ FRM5020.08/12 The history of reading

+ FRM5030.08/12 Nineteenth-century French social history

+ FRM5040.08/12 Stendhal as novelist

+ FRM5050.08/12 Zola

+ FRM5080.08/.12 Writing practices/reading theories: Ponge's prose and literary theory

+ FRM5090.08/12 The use of the computer in language learning

+ FRM5100.08/12 Reading course

+ one approved MA Part II subject offered by another department or centre in the Faculty of Arts