French

This course provides an opportunity to listen to and analyze popular French and francophone songs of the 20th and 21st centuries while discovering French society and culture. It discusses the vocabulary and what the lyrics mean from the author's point of view.

The course is a communicative course and develops students' understanding and production of the language at CEFR level A1. It is composed of two classes per week, and students must attend both classes. The course introduces basic French grammar and develops students' reading, speaking, and writing skills. 

This course represents additional work for the course FR 124, FRANCOPHONE CULTURE AND LITERATURE. This course offers an introduction to Francophone cultures by discovering a space of the Francophonie and its components (society, culture, language, history, geography). The work is done from the reading of a literary work in the program. Excerpts from the work are studied in class and illuminated by various documents such as videos, songs, texts, and authentic documents. In this course students discover a region of the Francophonie, learn about francophone literature, develop language skills through literary study, and study documents of various types and how to present them.

This course serves as an introduction into the francophone literature of Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses a history of francophone literature through the study of two genres: poetry and novel. The first half of the course focuses on the poetry of the négritude movement, reading works from Senghor and Césaire. The second half of the course focuses on novels such as Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'AVENTURE AMBIGUE, Yambo Ouologuem's LE DEVOIR DE VIOLENCE, and Henri Lopes's LE CHERCHEUR D'AFRIQUES. This course discusses topics such as identity through the lens of francophone literature and explores the question of the connection between literature and socio-historical context. 

This course explores some of the main trends of French and Francophone life writing since the beginning of the 21st century, and evaluates in what ways these trends (and the authorial strategies associated with them) offer new perspectives on the traditional concerns of the literary genre of autobiography, reflecting the increasing gender and ethnic diversity apparent amongst contemporary authors of French and Francophone literature. Questions of personal identity are at the center of this course, with a particular focus on (ethnically) hybrid identities. The course centers on the role of images in contemporary French and Francophone life-writing in order to interrogate the tendency in such works to use images in diverse ways to explore the complexities of identity. Visiting students should have the equivalent of at least two years of study at University level of French.

This is a second level beginning French course that covers: oral comprehension, pronunciation, grammatical structure, reading, and writing simple texts. It also introduces some aspects of French culture.

This course is a chronological presentation of French literature from the Middle Ages to 1600.  It connects genres and literary texts with the history of ideas and mentalities.

This course explores how literature shapes our perspective on the past and identity. By studying Patrick Chamoiseau's LE DIMANCHE AU CACHOT and Josephy Boyden's DANS LE GRAND CERCLE DU MONDE, this course considers how authors can use fiction to reconquer a painful past to better reconstruct an identity and a perspective that has been hidden.

This intensive course is the second of five levels in French as a Second Language offered at the French Language Centre (FLC). Focus is on all oral and written skills with a view to improving comprehension and expression. Review and further training in basic structures. Enrichment of vocabulary and awareness of French-speaking culture through selected readings and audiovisual material. 

This French language course is level A2 of the Common European Reference Framework for Languages (CEFR), or the second semester of beginning French. It focuses on practical French through listening and writing comprehension, oral expression, and writing. The course prepares students to achieve tasks in various sectors of social life through the acquisition of communicative, linguistic, and cultural knowledge. The course uses learning strategies aligned to the contents of the CEFR: work on defined tasks, formative evaluation, self-evaluation, and overture to the plurality of languages and cultures.