FREN

FREN-457-2025W

Explore the principles of English-to-French translation across literary, legal, economic, commercial, technical, medical, and political fields. Learn to navigate linguistic and cultural challenges, with attention to artistic, ethical, and political implications. View full description.

FREN-407-2025W

What did it mean to be an outlaw in medieval France? This course explores criminal figures in medieval French literature—lovers, tricksters, rebels, and real-life rogues—through tales of Tristan and Iseut, Renart, Villon, and more. Discover life on the wrong side of the law. View full description.

FREN-417-2025W

Explore French game culture through board games, roleplaying games, and video games that question notions of free will, agency, intent and consequence through storytelling. View full description.

FREN-370-2025W

Ce cours familiarise l’étudiant.e avec les concepts de base en linguistique. Les principaux domaines de la linguistique seront couverts : linguistique générale, phonétique et phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe et sociolinguistique. View full description.

FREN-401-2025W

Communicative proficiency at an autonomous level: vocabulary enrichment, pronunciation practice, grammatical analysis and development of efficient reading and writing techniques. This course is aligned with level B2 objectives of the CEFR. View full description.

FREN-402-2025W

A continuation of FREN_V 401. This course is aligned with level B2 objectives of the CEFR. View full description.

FREN-352-2025W

Principles of grammar theory and contextualized French grammatical concepts. Emphasis on terminology and analysis of grammatical issues. Aligned with CEFR level B2 objectives. View full description.

FREN-353-2025W

Advanced grammar theory and critical analysis of difficult French grammatical structures. Emphasis on autonomous examination of complex grammatical issues. View full description.

FREN-341-2025W

Comment des notions comme nation ou citoyenneté ont-elles émergé et défini la France, notamment dans l’art ? Ce cours explore les mouvements intellectuels et artistiques du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui à travers l’étude de textes littéraires majeurs. View full description.

FREN-346-2025W

Develop the language skills to communicate effectively in French-speaking clinical settings, in this course designed for aspiring healthcare professionals and Health Sciences students. Gain insight into the French-speaking healthcare system in Canada, with a focus on BC. View full course description.