French

This course is a theater workshop to develop new skills and knowledge. It strengthens the spirit of group cohesion through the feeling of belonging to a team. It allows students to free up speech through “doing” and thus gain confidence in speaking. It facilitates active, practical, and collaborative learning. Finally, it is an opportunity to discover texts and authors of French literature. Students develop oral skills through theatrical play: acting and interpreting, speaking in public; adapt to different communication situations: self-awareness and letting go; write theatrical dialogue; and discover French theater and theatrical techniques.

This course focuses on grammar, including analysis of sentence structure, pronouns, agreement, tenses, and modes; spelling, covering basic vocabulary and grammar through dictation; and written expression, written production, grammar spelling, vocabulary, and verbs.

This course examines the nature of insults as well as the linguistic and socio-historical implications of these statements. It considers the function of these enumerations in communication and the identity (social, religious, gender) of the person who insults as well as that of the preferred targets: what is stigmatized and to what extent the verbal attack that constitutes the insult touches on a society's taboos. It is clear from the examples studied that matters relating to sexuality and motherhood, and even the body, are highlighted: the round of medieval insults (and perhaps also that of "modern" insults) tells us about society's values and its power struggles. No prior knowledge of the language or literature of the Middle Ages is necessary. 

This course focuses on theater from the 1600-1700s. It focuses on two works, Racine's BERNICE and Beaumarchais's LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO, a tragedy and a comedy. The course discusses specific playwriting rules from the era and how the time period affects the way that these plays were written and performed. 

The course covers the historical evolution of the French language from its Romance origins to the present day. Examines both internal linguistic change and external historical, political, and cultural influences. The course also considers the expansion of French beyond Europe, contact with other languages and creoles, and modern linguistic perspectives on French in the 21st century.

This course focuses on the relationship between nature and society. It studies how this relationship evolved over history with social movements and how we express our own perspectives and attitudes towards nature in literature. Through Ernest Callenback's ECOTOPIE, the course examines what our relationship will be with nature in the future.

This comparative literature course focuses on the articulation between poetry and animality, and allows students to discover the approach proposed by zoopoetics, to reflect on the modalities of animal presence in poetry while enriching their poetic literary culture. The course discovers zoopoetics, enhances literary and poetic culture, and reflects on the modalities of animal presence in poetry. It develops skills in analysis of literary texts: comparative method; scientific writing method: reading a critical corpus, appropriating it, citing it; developing and structuring a long-form essay. Each lesson is dedicated to an animal figure, studied in comparison with a corpus of poetic texts.

This C1 level French course develops argumentative presentation and oral communication skills. Students practice writing an argumentative essay using the French methodology (identify an issue, create an outline, introduction, conclusion); perfect language skills: expand vocabulary, use argumentative tools, engage in conversation and involve the listener; improve comprehension of authentic written and audio materials; and discover and present a characteristic of French culture. The course reviews and deepens knowledge of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary (examples: direct questions in formal language; indirect questions; complex sentence syntax; conditional and subjunctive conjugations). It develops mastery of argumentative tools: logical links (introduction of elements and articulation: examples, addition, nuances, opinion); highlighting ideas; impersonal turns of phrase; expression of opposition and concession, hypothesis, condition.
 

This course explores the difference between the language of literature and the language of general communication. The course examines these topics by conducting close textual analyses on 19th- and 20th-century literary samples of poetry, novels, and theater.