French

This course introduces basic notions for translating medical terms from French to English, beginning with documents for lay readers followed by documents for specialists. It provides practice in digital research techniques for both stages of the translation process: comprehension and reformulation. The course covers revision of stylistic issues as well as structural and language differences between French and English as they arise in the text studies.

This course introduces students to the fundamental theoretical approaches relating to the study of facts, phenomena, and actors of communication. This course approaches the study of communication through a historical and comparative lens, allowing students to become acquainted with the diverse role communication has played over the years into the modern world. This includes an analysis of technological development and communication techniques on the function of mass media.

The course presents the main characteristics of the French economy: production and income, consumption, employment and unemployment, public finances, redistribution, social inequalities, and external balances. It underlines its assets and weaknesses in the context of both European integration and globalization. The course refers to the main analysis models currently used in economics and tests their “modernity” for a renewed understanding of the French economy’s strengths and weaknesses within the European and global framework. This course introduces students to the language of economics and offers the possibility of using statistical information to understand a national economic reality.