French

This course is designed to improve French-language skills and expand cultural knowledge of the French-speaking world. It aims to prepare students for the DELF B1 exam and to provide them with the opportunity to understand the French society.

Course Prerequisite: Completion of Advanced French I or equivalent language skills is required for enrollment.

This course is built around approximately 20 selected works by renowned French authors, aiming to systematically develop students’ literary analysis skills. It deepens their nuanced understanding of French at the levels of word, sentence, and discourse, while fostering a comprehensive awareness of major literary movements and styles in French literature. Weekly supplementary materials include social science texts and news listening exercises, designed to enhance the ability to parse complex structures and expand the use of advanced vocabulary. The course also incorporates targeted preparation aligned with the requirements of the Test for French Majors-Band 8 (TFM8), strengthening both comprehensive skills and exam readiness.

This is the first of a pair courses that build towards an overarching understanding of cultures of the French-speaking world in their historical and geographical diversity. It focuses on a range of primary materials in French that are diverse in various senses, notably: chronologically, in genre/medium, and in terms of the origins and identities of the authors/filmmakers. Students are expected to read and study these works intensively in order to participate fully in seminar discussion, and to get the most from lectures offering a framework of historical contexts and critical approaches. The course eases the transition from school to university through a focused introduction to materials and skills of critical analysis, in writing and more widely, that forms the basis of more advanced study in subsequent years. It is designed for students who have not reached the equivalent of A-level standard in French, with French-language materials studied in translation.

The course is aimed at students of French interested in the development of the French language and who want to specialize in the study of orthography and understand some of the difficulties that everyone who has ever had to learn to spell in French have been confronted with. The course starts with Medieval French, when there were no rules, and follows the public debate that resulted in the emergence of a normative language with respect to both grammar and spelling. Within the scope of the course, a number of texts from different periods are discussed. The course ends with an advanced assignment where the student is expected to carry out an analysis of a self-chosen text. The approach is chosen by the student in consultation with the lecturer and should be linked to the focus of the course, that is French orthography.

This practical intermediate-level course in French conversation provides students with a wide variety of dialogue models in audio and text form, which they are invited to listen to, read and reproduce, before writing and performing, in groups, their own dialogue on a common theme.

This course builds on the language skills and cultural knowledge acquired in previous studies. It's is to further develop students' reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in French, and to strengthen the capacity to reflect critically on cross-cultural differences between Francophone cultures and other cultures.

The course further develops basic proficiency in everyday French through extensive practice in grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with a focus on contemporary cultural topics related to France and the Francophone world. It uses a range of activities to strengthen language skills and support strategies for autonomous learning.

This introductory course offers a practical study of the French language in the context of the professional tourism field. It focuses on the acquisition of theoretical training in French linguistics and the development of communicative skills for use in the tourism industry.

This course is dedicated to the study of Dramaturgy of Romantic Drama, a genre that came to the forefront of French stages with the Romantic revolution of the 1830s. After the presentation of the major theoretical texts that founded Romantic Dramaturgy, it focuses on dramaturgical analysis of three major plays from the repertoire covering almost the entire 19th century, from the Golden Age of the 1830s with Hugo and Musset, to the late avatar represented by CYRANO DE BERGERAC in 1897. Theoretical knowledge is mobilized--the poetics of the genre, plot construction, the character system, the management of time and space--and applied to specific to specific works and themes. The transition from text to stage is also addressed with the help of video recordings of historical and modern stagings.