This online French course is designed for students with little or no knowledge of French and aims to provide them with basic language skills to enable them to understand and use familiar everyday expressions and basic phrases in everyday situations. Intended for students with no background in French or with no more than grade nine Core French or equivalent. Students will need to sign a solemn declaration to this effect at the start of the course.
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.

This online French course is designed for students with a basic knowledge of French to supplement their language skills by enabling them to engage in everyday interactions. For students with up to three years of high school Core French or equivalent with no immersion background. Students will need to sign a solemn declaration to this effect at the start of the course.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.

Review of the French language in the North American context: written and oral exercises, compositions, short readings. Emphasis on grammar and vocabulary.

Review of the French language in the North American context: written and oral exercises, compositions, short readings. Emphasis on grammar and vocabulary.

This French course is designed for students who have completed beginner level French. Students will further develop their written and oral communication skills as well as acquire the means to competently engage in a range of everyday common social and professional situations.
NOTE Students who are fluent French speakers cannot enrol in this course, and will need to sign a solemn declaration to this effect at the start of the course.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).

Practice in reading, writing, grammar review, and literary analysis.
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).

For students with immersion background.

Whether you're in the process of entering the workforce or are an established professional, to be competitive, relevant, and meet the distinct needs and expectations of Canada's professional landscape you need the capacity to function in both official languages. This course will help you to develop the French oral and written skills to successfully navigate a range of professional workplace environments. FREN 225 is taught by experienced instructors who have themselves worked and helped to promote and facilitate bilingual workplace environments.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.

The methodology of literary analysis. Assignments may include textual analysis and dissertation.

A presentation of the principles of textual production in French as applied in the production of various types of texts.

This course will provide learners with work-related vocabulary as well as the written and oral communication skills to effectively engage in a range of bilingual professional environments and situations pertaining to healthcare. Throughout the course, learners work in small groups on collaborative projects to simulate real world situations.
NOTE Language is the principal focus of this course. Prior experience or professional knowledge in the field is not necessary.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.

The course will provide learners with technical vocabulary as well as the written and oral French communication skills to effectively engage in a range of situations, activities, and tasks within government workplaces. Collaborative group work and assignments will simulate real world situations.
NOTE Language is the principal focus of this course. Prior experience or professional knowledge in the field is not necessary.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.

The course will provide learners with technical vocabulary as well as the French written and oral language skills to effectively communicate with French speaking clients and conduct routine legal communication in French. Collaborative group work and assignments will simulate real world situations.
NOTE Language is the principal focus of this course. Prior experience or professional knowledge in the field is not necessary.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.

This online course is intended for professionals working in contexts related to Indigenous arts and cultures (artistic and cultural organizations, education, government). It is designed to provide learners with the oral and written skills necessary to accurately understand and effectively engage with Indigenous arts and cultures in the workplace.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.

An introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the end of the Eighteenth Century stressing how tensions generated between different ideas within a period determine the aesthetic, philosophical, and literary choices made by major authors.

A course focusing on the socio-cultural and political aspects of African and Caribbean cinemas.

A study of representative literary works in the Middle Ages, including La Chanson de Roland, Tristan et Iseult, Le Roman de Renart, Le Roman de la Rose, Chrétien de Troyes, Rutebeuf and Villon. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

A detailed study of selected plays from French theatre since 1945. Visual presentations. Semiotic approach. Cocteau, Duras, Beckett, Ionesco, Sarraute, Sartre, Koltès. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

A study of representative literary works of the 15th and 16th centuries, including Villon, Montaigne, Rabelais. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

This course is intended for students who took FREN 219/3.0 or who have advanced knowledge of the French language.

A detailed study of major 19th century writers. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

A detailed study of selected novels from 20th-century French authors until 1945. Beauvoir, Camus, Céline, Cocteau, Colette, Gide, Proust, Sartre. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

A seminar on avant-garde and post-modern works in which students will be asked to examine traditional literary conventions of representation, particularly those established over the course of the 19th century. Class discussion will then shift to avant-garde and post-modern works that question such conventions and also address issues pertaining to the limits of representation. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

A study of cultural representations in contemporary film. Special topics may include women in cinema, culture and identity in French and/or Francophone cinema, history through cinema, avant-garde cinema and the 'nouvelle vague'. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

Acquisition of a deeper knowledge of the principles of textual production, with particular emphasis on the use of computer-based grammatical and lexicographic tools, and an examination of the stylistic constraints on textual production.

An introduction to French 19th and contemporary literature. More specifically focused on literature the course will also explore predominant trends in different media such as painting and cinema. Drawing on critical, historical, and literary theory, students will acquire the skills to assess how specific works reflect or relate to the aesthetic, literary, and philosophical trends of their time.

An introduction to the history of ideas and cultural evolution in French Canada, African and Caribbean culture and literature, from the colonial period to the present day.

An examination of comparative approaches to Indigenous literatures across North America. Questions of translation, tribal specificity, literary nationalism, inter- and trans-Indigenous orientations are examined in relation to a diversity of works by Indigenous scholars, writers, filmmakers, and other artists and thinkers.

A study of representative works by African and the Caribbean writers. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

In this course, which aims to provide a solid undergraduate-level foundation in several key figures, texts and concepts in Haitian Studies, students will learn to address some common misunderstandings about Haiti by exploring the political documents of its revolutionary period and literary representations of its popular culture and vodou.

A detailed analysis of French grammar based on the description of language structures.

This course has as its goal to allow students to grasp the major steps in the evolution of French from Latin to the modern day. Subjects treated include: the language upon which French is based; the major steps in the development of French; French as a social institution, as an official language, and as a living language; the Francophone world.

Seventeenth-century texts are studied in detail from the works of Cyrano de Bergerac, d'Urfé, Scarron, Furetière, Guilleragues and Mme de la Fayette. Travaux pratiques include oral exposés and dissertations.

A study of significant trends in the novel of 18th century France with special emphasis on historical and aesthetic changes in the relationship between fiction and its social context. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

Lecture on a selected topic in French Language and Literature; course is either being offered for the first time or is being taught by visiting faculty. Topics will depend on the professor's interest and field of research. Consult the Department of French Studies website for further details of specific course offerings each year.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.

A study of discourse on and by women in representative works (primarily the novel). Travaux pratiques may include essays and tests.

Focuses on a specific author or on a specific theme of Quebec literature. Topics will depend on the professor's interest and field of research. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.

Students will explore Paris through the diverse, creative, and anecdotal perspectives offered by writers, filmmakers, painters, photographers, and other artists. Such figures have played important roles in significant literary and artistic trends and movements, and have portrayed Paris in a variety of perspectives.
NOTE Taught in English together with FRST 290. Students concentrating in French submit written assignments, tests, and examinations in French.
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.

Montreal is a converging point for immigrants. We will explore significant texts that represent this diversity, from a migrant perspective or one of majority, and the political implications that arise in a pluralistic context, seeking to identify the model of interculturalism, and its links with notions such as hybridity adopted by migrant writers.
NOTE This course is offered in French. Students registered in FREN 394 will read texts in their French original version and write their quizzes, essay and exam in French. Those registered in FRST 294 may read texts in translation, and write their quizzes, essay and exam in English. English version of PowerPoint presentations will be available on onQ. Students registered should understand oral French at an intermediate level.

A study of Québec society through the analysis of cinema focusing on the impacts of recent cultural institutions on the formation of cultural identity during and since the Quiet Revolution. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.

Drawing from the fields of art, film, philosophy and literature, this course seeks to engage students from all disciplines to explore how, as a society, we can work to better understand and address the needs of the elderly and dying.

A practical translation course. Review exercises in comparative stylistics, written and oral themes.

The goal of this seminar is to enable students pursuing the final year of a Major in French Studies to apply the methods and theory acquired over the course of their program to a corpus of works not previously covered by their program. In a seminar framework, under the guidance of a professor, they will, as a group, present and discuss the fruits of their readings and the questions raised by these readings. In addition, at the end of each of the two terms, they will write an exam designed to measure their ability to consider, both broadly and deeply, the texts they have read, to synthesize their reflections in a theoretically coherent fashion, and to express their findings clearly and coherently.

The goal of this course is to provide senior undergraduate students pursuing a career in education with the opportunity to practice teaching the French language. As part of their weekly teaching practicum, students will be responsible for leading tutorials under the supervision of the course coordinator. Coursework will emphasize evidence-based methods for the effective teaching of a second language.
NOTE This course is exclusively for Concurrent Education students who have completed the Con-Ed prerequisites in the Faculty of Education and who have completed an application and been interviewed in the spring prior to the year in which they will be enrolled in the course.

Research in a particular area of French literature or language under the supervision of a professor.

Research in a particular area of French literature or language under the supervision of a professor.