French Courses

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …