French

This workshop is for advanced level students (C1-C2). It helps with oral expression and understanding in an academic context. Content focuses on presentations, summaries, and writing academic papers.

This course comprises a thematic and comparative approach to French civilization. It focuses on issues relating to local geography (Bordeaux and it's region), secularism in France, the educational system, and French institutions. Students produce written and oral descriptions of French cultural and economic aspects, explain the cultural differences between their own country and France, and improve their French speaking and writing levels through document analysis.

This intermediate French course focuses on intensive instruction in written and oral French through audio-visual method and group work with an instructor. The oral part of the course studies pronunciation, vocabulary for daily and university life, and simple and more complex sentence structure. Written work includes grammatical review, spelling, and expression. The course includes regular exercises to train comprehension and expression.

This course examines major historical, social, and artistic movements reflected in representative novels published in France from the 19th Century to the present.

This course covers French literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It is an analysis of the French literary canon and the historical, cultural, linguistic, political and social parameters that took place during the time of the authors. The course also considers why these works are consistently taught and reads authors often left out of the school system, such as female authors and francophone authors not from France. The course examines the parameters linked to the identity of an author, the object chosen, the language chosen, sex (cultural and political construction), race (literature said to be francophone, or national allophone literatures), social classes (the nobility of literary genres, literature said to be "popular"), and religion.

This comparative literature course studies literatures of migration. It focuses on two books from different countries that have been translated into French and utilizes the French methodology for textual analysis.

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 focuses on improving communication skills in oral French to reach the B1 level. The first part of the course focuses on oral comprehension, including listening and analyzing audio and video documents in French, such as daily life and media documents. The second part of the course focuses on oral production and consists of activities and games to practice the oral language and lexicon appropriation. Finally, the third part of the course focuses on phonetics and pronunciation, including sound recognition, pronunciation exercises, and reading. The course provides an opportunity to practice the French language in a relaxed atmosphere.