FREN223

Course type: Hybrid

A hybrid course may involve a combination of synchronous activities (done in “real time”) and asynchronous activities (done in one’s own time). The course will be delivered online.

French Language and Style II

In-depth grammatical analysis of the complex French sentence and its components, to enable students to understand the language better and to write it more clearly and idiomatically. Written work will include both structural exercises and short writing assignments.

Required texts:
Course package (UBC Bookstore)

Recommended texts:

Le Nouveau Petit Robert, Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française.
Robert-Collins, English-French French-English Dictionary.
Stacey Katz Bourns, Contextualized French Grammar, Heinle Cengage Learning.

Prerequisite:
FREN 222

Language of instruction: French

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FREN222

Course type: Hybrid

A hybrid course may involve a combination of synchronous activities (done in “real time”) and asynchronous activities (done in one’s own time). The course will be delivered online.

French Language and Style I

In-depth grammatical analysis of the simple French sentence and its components, to enable students to understand the language better and to write it more clearly and idiomatically. Written work will include both structural exercises and short writing assignments.

Required texts:
Course package (UBC Bookstore)

Recommended texts:

Prerequisite:
FREN 123

Language of instruction: French

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FREN221

Course type: Hybrid

A hybrid course may involve a combination of synchronous activities (done in “real time”) and asynchronous activities (done in one’s own time). The course will be delivered online.

Identités Nationales

Dans ce cours nous nous proposons d’examiner les singularités et les complexités de l’identité nationale telles qu’exprimées dans divers textes littéraires depuis le XVIIIe siècle et la Révolution française jusqu’au présent. Que les textes datent du XVIIIe siècle ou du XXIe, chacun nous permet une réflexion sur la question posée par Ernest Renan en 1885: “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?” autant que sur la question impliquée par celle-là: qui fait partie de la nation? Par la même occasion ces textes nous offrent un survol des grands mouvements de la littérature française du XVIIIe au XXIe siècles et une introduction à quelques textes francophones.

Textes:
Montesquieu. Lettres persanes (extraits)
Claire de Duras. Ourika.
Guy de Maupassant. Boule de suif.

+ choix de textes du XXe et XXIe siècle.

Prerequisite:
FREN 123 or assignment based on placement test.

Note:
To be taken by all students intending to proceed to the Minor, Major or Honours program in French.

Language of Instruction: French

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FREN124

Keeping Up Your French

NOTICE: FREN 224 is replacing FREN 124 – register in FREN 224 instead!

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FREN599A

All candidates for the M.A. degree with thesis are required to deposit in the Department a thesis of approximately 80 pages, including bibliography and notes. It must be presented in accordance with the university guidelines for the format and presentation of graduate theses.

Candidates will defend their thesis during a one-hour and a half oral examination.

Candidates must register in French 599 in the year in which they intend to submit the thesis.

For information about your thesis preparation and submission, click here.

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FREN499

Honours Essay

Required of all Honours candidates, the Honours Essay represents an extended personal research project (in finished form usually about 35-40 pages typewritten) carried out under the supervision of two members of the Department’s Graduate Faculty: a supervisor who will meet regularly with the student and a second reader. Preliminary research on the topic chosen is expected to be completed by mid-term, at which time the candidate is required to submit for approval a detailed outline of the projected work. The finished essay is due on the last day of lectures of the term.

The Honours Essay is seen less as an original contribution to knowledge than as a means for providing the student with an opportunity to become familiar with the methodological problems of research as well as with the techniques and problems of scholarly writing.

Students who are planning to do an Honours Essay must submit a proposal to the Student Program Coordinator using this online form. The proposal must include a one-page abstract, a bibliography, and the names of the two professors who are willing to supervise the work.

The proposal should be submitted by November 1, if the student intends to register in this course in January (FREN499-201).
The proposal should be submitted by March 1, if the student intends to register in this course the following September (FREN499-101)

ITAL102

Beginners’ Italian II

Continuation of foundational elements of Italian language. Development of listening, reading, speaking and writing skills in the context of everyday situations in the present and past tenses. Aligned with CEFR level A1 objectives. Credits will be only granted for ITAL 103 or both ITAL 101, ITAL102. Recommended prerequisite: ITAL 101. (NOTE: One section of ITAL 102 will be offered in Hybrid format, which will include a few asynchronous classes.)

Language of instruction: Italian

Recommended pre-requisite: ITAL 101.

Note: Credits will be only granted for ITAL 103 or both ITAL 101, ITAL 102.

Grading Breakdown

Preparazione 25%
Partecipazione 20%
Quizzes (3) 15%
Prove Orali (2) 15%
Esame Finale Scritto 25%

Readings

C.M,Naddeo, E.Orlandino, DIECI A1, Alma Edizioni, 2019, Firenze

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Find out which course level to start at given your previous experience with Italian.

SPAN430E

[Cross-listed with SPAN 530B-921]

Novelas de la guerra civil española

Este curso ofrece un recorrido de la narrativa inspirada por la guerra civil española, dentro y también fuera de España. Investigaremos el impacto cultural de la guerra, y las distintas estrategias escogidas para representar la violencia y el disenso. Analizaremos las perspectivas de españoles dentro y fuera (o sea, exiliados) de España, y asimismo las ofrecidas por extranjeros involucrados en este conflicto con fuertes dimensiones internacionales.

Textos
Sender, Réquiem por un campesino español
Cela, San Camilo, 1936
Malraux, Days of Hope
Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Méndez, Los girasoles ciegos

Prerequisite: One of SPAN 220, SPAN 221 and SPAN 302

Language of instruction: Spanish and English

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FREN514A

France in Ruins: Wounded Spaces From 1945 to the Present

Ruins have been at the center of the French imaginary since the sixteenth century. They represented in turn the decay of the pagan world, its architectural genius, the height of the sublime, and a refuge for earthly pleasures or the inquisitive mind. The twentieth century, with its landscapes of broken metropolises and scorched earth, changed the literary reading of this spatial motif in radical ways, making it more malleable and more ambiguous. It has been evolving from 1945 to the present, taking unique shapes in the literature we will be studying this semester, starting with the rotting landscapes of Julien Gracq and Pierre Michon, and moving towards the industrial territories of François Bon and Élisabeth Filhol.

This seminar will allow the students to become familiar with a poetic approach to literary texts, while also remaining open to the theoretical perspectives that they will be bringing forward through class discussions and oral presentations. Our seminar will also include a substantial component dedicated to the visual history of ruins in European architecture, painting, photography, and film.

Required readings:

Julien Gracq, Un balcon en forêt

Pierre Michon, La Grande Beune

Patrick Modiano, Pedigree

François Bon, Paysage fer

Philippe Vasset, Un livre blanc

Élisabeth Filhol, La Centrale

Céline Minard, Le Dernier monde

Theory readings will include works by Bertrand Westphal, Michel Collot, Marielle Macé, and others.

Language of instruction: French

Professor: Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire

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FREN512B

[Cross-listed with SPAN 501]

Cultural Mobilities in Theory and Practice

Cultural mobility can be defined as mobilities relayed in and of cultural products, events, and phenomena. The concept can be viewed as part of a recent, influential critical movement to foreground mobility in social sciences and in the humanities and arts. According to Tim Cresswell (On the Move, 2006: 2-3), mobility is the effect of movement, meaning, and power. John Urry underscores the necessity to analyze assemblages or interconnections of five interdependent mobilities in social life: the corporeal travel of people; the physical movement of objects; imaginative travel through perusing the media; virtual travel through, for instance, Zoom meetings; and communicative travel using, for example, social media (Mobilities, 2006: 47-8). The mobilities paradigm has been used to explain significant socio-cultural phenomena, ranging from social inequality to global climate change, all of which are related to physical movements in crucial ways.

This course introduces the research field of cultural mobilities in relation to case studies focused on several mobile subjects—namely, merchants, explorers, tourists, colonizers, political pilgrims, migrants, and refugees—within Italian, French, and Chinese contexts. The course is divided into two units. In the first unit, students learn critical frames and tools from social scientific and humanistic inquiries into mobilities. In the second unit, students are encouraged to use these theoretical insights to approach major intercultural events (e.g., the Age of Discovery, the Grand Tour, and migrations) as they are articulated in narratives of diverse types (e.g., novels, journalism, diaries, and films). In particular, we consider authorial intent, knowledge creation, cultural technologies, affects, meaning-meaning, and power dynamics that these narratives help articulate. Through this exercise, toward the end of the semester, we assess how we may contribute to further theorizing cultural mobility analysis

Language of instruction : English

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