FREN-521B-2021W
Title: “Postcolonial Studies: What Challenges? What Horizon?” | Gain an understanding of postcolonial discourse, particularly around theory and also the so-called francophone novel. We will tackle the socio-historical context, as well as questions of a pragmatic order with for example those of memory, enunciation, or migration. View full description.
FREN-501A-2021W
Title: “Francophonie in the Middle Ages” | Explore medieval French-speaking literature from the Kingdom of France, which was, at the time, a collection of seigneurial estates displaying a very relative allegiance to the king of France. View full description.
FREN-599B-2021W
All candidates for the M.A. degree with thesis are required to develop a thesis of approximately 80 pages, which they will defend during a 1.5-hour oral examination. View full description.
FREN-599A-2021W
All candidates for the M.A. degree with thesis are required to develop a thesis of approximately 80 pages, which they will defend during a 1.5-hour oral examination. View full description.
FREN-556A-2021W
Title: “Race, Ethnicity and Language” | Unpack the construction and maintenance of racial and ethnic boundaries through the use of language. Explore the role of language as a vehicle for the ideologies that get attached to racialized and ethnicized subjects. View full description.
FREN-521A-2021W
Title: “Postcolonial Studies: What Challenges? What Horizon?” | Gain an understanding of postcolonial discourse, particularly around theory and also the so-called francophone novel. We will tackle the socio-historical context, as well as questions of a pragmatic order with for example those of memory, enunciation, or migration. View full description.
FREN-520B-2021W
Title: “Writing Utopia in France” | Utopia participates in both the quest for a better world and in criticism of the existing order. Question the ambiguous nature of the utopian imagination, as it is presented by French authors of the 18th and 19th centuries. View full description.
FREN-501B-2021W
Title: “Francophonie in the Middle Ages” | Explore medieval French-speaking literature from the Kingdom of France, which was, at the time, a collection of seigneurial estates displaying a very relative allegiance to the king of France. View full description.
FREN-499-2021W
Required of all Honours candidates. The Honours Essay represents an extended personal research project (usually about 35-40 pages typewritten) carried out under the supervision of two members of the department’s Graduate faculty. View full description.