French

This course covers the fundamental vocabulary and syntax of economic and commercial French and develops cultural skills specific to the business world. It analyzes and produces simple and complex professional documents dealing with economics. The first part of the course covers the Economic World and discusses economics, economic agents, needs, competition, the market, and price setting. The second part of the course discusses the Business world, including the company, classification, goods and services, economic sectors, the shift toward a service-based economy, and the chocolate market. Finally, the last part of the course covers Company Personnel: company structure, types of organizational charts, the different departments within a company, and hierarchy.

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.