French

This course provides students with adequate language resources so they can share their experiences and certain events of their professional and private life in French. Course materials illustrating different communication situations improve oral and written skills in various areas of social life.

This intensive language course focuses on oral and written French, review of grammar, language, and written expression. Oral French focuses on difficult cases of spelling, vocabulary of selected fields, and sentence structure. Written work includes advanced grammar, syntax, and spelling, with a focus on academic writing for French universities. Texts on contemporary French society are used as a base for discussion topics.

This course for international students offers a panorama of French contemporary literature from a feminist and LGBTQ+ perspective. Through excerpts of novels, short stories, and contemporary essays, it provides an opportunity to discover contemporary female authors as well as a variety of feminist discourse in fiction. The course studies works by major female authors from the second half of the 20th century, including Sarraute, Duras, Yourcenar, Wittig, Cixous, Ernaud, Ndiaye, and Blais; as well as contemporary female authors such as Virginie Despentes, Wendy Delorme, Céline Minard, Léonora Miano, Chloé Delaume, Catherine Dufour, and Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam. It develops written comprehension as well as oral and written expression skills.