Papers 1 and 3 will be based on content from the following four themes.

• Theme 1: Les changements dans la société française
• Theme 2: La culture politique et artistique dans les pays francophones
• Theme 3: L’immigration et la société multiculturelle française
• Theme 4: L’Occupation et la Résistance.

The four themes address a range of social issues and trends, as well as aspects of the political and artistic culture of France and French–speaking countries.

• Themes 1, 3, and 4 focus on aspects of society or history of France only.
• Theme 2 requires students to broaden their knowledge across any Francophone country/countries and/or community/communities. Each theme is broken into three sub–themes. These sub–themes are each exemplified further.
• A–level students will be expected to have studied the grammatical system and structures of the language during their course.

The independent research project may be based on any of the four themes of study or on a subject of interest of the student’s choosing, but must relate to the cultural and social context of the language studied. The independent research project must: 

• Be based on a question or statement defined and developed by the student individually to investigate a particular area of interest specifically related to the culture and/or society of one of the target language countries or communities.
• Include evidence of the student’s research findings,
  investigated independently, from a range of authentic sources, including the internet.
• Enable the student independently to contextualise, analyse and summarise findings
• Enable the student to identify at least two written sources, which they can summarise and give a personal response to in their presentation.