French

This course provides an overview of digital practices for translation and localization using open-source software. It covers localization and translation of software and documents. Topics include open-source software tutorials, creating and translating subtitles, group translation, and working on a synthesis.  

This course introduces basic notions for translating medical terms from French to English, beginning with documents for lay readers followed by documents for specialists. It provides practice in digital research techniques for both stages of the translation process: comprehension and reformulation. The course covers revision of stylistic issues as well as structural and language differences between French and English as they arise in the text studies.

This course on French gastronomy provides an overview of how the food and wine culture became such a distinctive feature of life in France. It addresses both the subjects of food and wine, with a view to giving as informative a perspective as possible. The course covers the evolution of French food culture as well as regional cuisines. It also gives special attention to wine areas as well as the rituals around food and wine. The course thus relies on historical facts, sociological data, and economic figures but is also be an opportunity to get as close as possible to French gastronomy with field trips, dinners, and tastings. The perspective is both French and foreign as it welcomes students’ experience and ideas about French gastronomy.

This is a tutorial course for the course FRENCH LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY. This course provides a broad overview of modern French society in the 21st century. In each session, a different French song or aspect of French civilization is discussed followed by a presentation. The topics of the presentation are: ecology in France; media in France; political parties in France; press in France; cinema in France; French literature; languages in France; immigration in France and more. 

This course is the tutorial for FR 126. It is a study of poetry with an emphasis on poetic structures and their evolution to strengthen skills in line-by-line textual analysis. The course focuses on sonnets and studies the authors Louise Losé and Rimbaud.

This course focuses on intensive instruction in written and oral French. The oral part of the course studies pronunciation, vocabulary, and simple sentence structure. Written work includes grammatical basics, syntax, and spelling. The course includes regular exercises to train comprehension and expression.

This course represents additional work for the course FR 129, LITERARY TEXTS. 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 nineteenth and twentieth century literary samples of poetry, novels, and theater.