FREN402
Upper-Intermediate French II The Department of FHIS offers a series of eight courses designed to build students’ skills progressively in the four basic communicative functions of listening, reading, writing, and speaking. FREN 402 is the second of a pair of Upper-Intermediate courses—401 and 402—aligned with level B2 objectives of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). […]
FREN401
Upper-Intermediate French I The Department of FHIS offers a series of eight courses designed to build students’ skills progressively in the four basic communicative functions of listening, reading, writing, and speaking. FREN 401 is the first of a pair of Upper-Intermediate courses—401 and 402—aligned with level B2 objectives of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The […]
FREN302
Intermediate French II With an approach that is communicative and collaborative, inductive and interactive, the course develops understanding of the French language and the Francophone world and refines writing and reading, speaking and listening skills through diverse activities: an interactive approach to the review of French grammar, stressing communicative competence; an emphasis on group work […]
FREN301
Intermediate French I With an approach that is communicative and collaborative, inductive and interactive, the course develops understanding of the French language and the Francophone world and refines writing and reading, speaking and listening skills through diverse activities: an interactive approach to the review of French grammar, stressing communicative competence; an emphasis on group work […]
FREN202
Elementary French II A continuation of the A2 level work begun in FREN 201, focused on the understanding of detached sentences and expressions related to everyday life (such as personal and familial information, travels, food, and one’s immediate environment including home and community). French grammatical structures such as uses of pronouns, the imperative, and hypothetical […]
FREN201
Elementary French I A course for non-specialists based on the A2 level of the European Framework and focused on the understanding and production of detached sentences and expressions related to everyday life (such as personal and familial information and one’s immediate environment including transportation, recreation, and shopping). French grammatical structures such as past tenses, pronouns, […]
RMST520
Think Like a Forest: A Dialogue Between Pre-Modern Worldviews, Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Knowledge How do we think? Are we aware of the kind of thinking we entertain? What kind of world do our individual and collective, conscious or unconscious thought-processes generate? Do we even have a choice in the orientation of our thinking patterns, and […]
FREN556
Race, Ethnicity and Language Instructor: Marie-Eve Bouchard Language of instruction: French This course is based on the fundamental idea that discourse practices are an important indicator of wider social and cultural structures. Language has a key role to play in the racial and ethnic boundary-making processes, as it is a vehicle for the ideologies that […]
FREN521B
Études postcoloniales : quels défis ? Quel horizon ? Instructor: Farid Laroussi Language of instruction: French Les études postcoloniales appartiennent désormais de plain-pied au champ de la recherche universitaire, ainsi qu’à des disciplines aussi différentes que le cinéma ou les sciences politiques. Mais qu’en sait-on vraiment ? Plus de quarante ans après leur avènement, les études […]
FREN501A
Redefining Courtliness Courtliness has been one of the most fundamental concepts in the study of medieval literature for almost 150 years. When he described “amour courtois” in 1883, Gaston Paris might not have imagined the perennial critical success that the term would have, as well as its lexical productivity, leading to cognate notions such as […]