Art History

Refresh your lower intermediate French on these intensive, communicative courses. Develop your speaking and listening skills and improve your grammar. An assessment of your level is recommended before you enrol.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Learn French on this lively interactive course for near beginners.The course will be taught in French, with an emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Consolidate your upper intermediate level of French in this lively and interactive course. The course will enable you to consolidate and further practise the main topics and grammar points studied on level 3 upper course, through a variety of speaking and listening activities. The course is suitable if you are attending a level 3 upper course or have an equivalent level of the language.

Continue developing your advanced French and take your language skills to the next level. This course is ideal for students who have an advanced level of French but would like to become proficient in the language.

Come and join this lively interactive course to refresh your advanced French. After attending this course you will be able join a level 4 course in September.

Further improve your upper intermediate French on this lively, communicative class. This course combines structural language work with discussion on French political and cultural news.

Come and join this lively interactive course to refresh your lower intermediate French. After attending this course you will be able join a level 2 course starting soon.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Flaubert est le contemporain de Baudelaire et, comme l’auteur de « Les Fleurs du mal », il occupe une position charnière dans la littérature du XIXème siècle. À la fois contesté pour des raisons morales et admiré pour sa force littéraire de son temps, il apparaît aujourd'hui comme l'un des plus grands romanciers de son siècle, avec en particulier « Madame Bovary », roman qui fonde le bovarysme, puis « L'Éducation sentimentale ». Il se place entre le roman psychologique de Stendhal et le mouvement naturaliste de Zola et Maupassant, ces derniers considérant Flaubert comme leur maître. Lui-même fortement marqué par l'œuvre d’Honoré de Balzac dont il reprendra les thèmes sous une forme très personnelle - « L'Éducation sentimentale » est une autre version de « Le Lys dans la vallée » et « Madame Bovary » s'inspire de « La Femme de trente ans » - il s'inscrit dans sa lignée du roman réaliste. Il est aussi très préoccupé d'esthétisme, d'où son long travail d'élaboration pour chaque œuvre : il teste ses textes en les soumettant à la fameuse épreuve du « gueuloir », qui consiste à les lire à pleine voix, parfois pendant des heures. On a également souvent souligné la volonté de Flaubert de s'opposer à l'esthétique du roman-feuilleton, en écrivant un « roman de la lenteur ». Enfin, son regard ironique et pessimiste sur l'humanité fait de lui un grand moraliste. Son « Dictionnaire des idées reçues » donne un aperçu de ce talent.







This course is designed for both advanced French learners as well as native speakers of French.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Get a flavour of French and its basic sentence structure. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners and those who might like to take it further.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This intensive course is suitable if you have studied French for about two years in the past but are not sure whether you are ready to join our third year course, 'French 2 upper' course. You will revise the main points of the second year in this one-week revision course and feel ready for 'French 2 upper: module 1' starting soon.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Come and discover what an upper intermediate French class feels like.



This course is suitable if you have studied French for 4-5 years recently or have done an A-level some time ago.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Lecture et discussions sur des oeuvres françaises à travers les siècles, ainsi qu'un aperçu historique et biographique d'écrivains français et francophones.