College of Letters & Science
Cours obligatoire pour les étudiants débutant dans le programme (voir exemptions possibles dans la section « Academic Requirements, M.A. program). Approfondissement de la grammaire française ; raffinement du style ; enrichissement du lexique. Le travail d’écriture hebdomadaire comprendra des exercices de grammaire, des rédactions, et des traductions. Pendant la seconde partie du semestre, nous considérerons …
This course is specifically designed to theorize practice through teaching strategies such as video feedback, video conferencing, video mails; in addition to shared reflection and/or creation of small language learning videos. It is intended to help TAs, in-service language teachers and graduate students develop understandings regarding the acquisition, learning and teaching of languages in the …
If this nineteenth centenary did not invent the French short story, it reinvented it. Besides noted masters of the genre like Mérimée or Maupassant, whose names are today synonymous with the French short story, we will also read “short” texts by Balzac, Barbey, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Villiers, and Gautier. We will use the short story as …
In FR595 we will study and perform the dramatic monologue as it has evolved in French Theatre since the 17th century. The play, which will be a combination of monologues written by French authors and by students of the class, will be performed in April for the entire UW campus and environs (including students of …
Introduction to structural similarities and differences in major Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) and to their historical developments, with reference to basic linguistic features of each language: phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. Does not count toward the French major. P: Span 226 or Portug 226 or French 228 or Ital 311, or cons inst.
“La vie de l’esprit de Voltaire à Balzac” L’objectif général de ce séminaire sera d’examiner la vie publique et privée de l’esprit des années 1720 jusqu’en 1832 (date de la publication de la nouvelle Louis Lambert de Balzac). Nos discussions seront axées sur les thèmes suivants: Les diverses significations du mot esprit chez les divers …
This course is meant to be a forum for discussion of issues in Communicative Language Teaching, as well as a workshop where students will be able to evaluate and develop materials and activities for the first semester of language instruction. 1 credit. Instruction and working hours are 15 in total (50 minutes each session). Students …
By the end of the 19th-century, masterpieces of the genre had established a set of conventions for the novel, seemingly all of which would be subverted, deconstructed, and playfully re-employed by French novelists over the course of the 20th-century. In this course, we will study the genre in many of its manifestations throughout the 20th- …