Academic Calendar 2025-2026

French Language and Literature (FREN)

FREN 106  Communication et culture I  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 144 (132 Online Activity, 12 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite None. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after any FREN or FRST course (exception - FREN 106/3.0 can be taken after FRST 105/3.0). Note This course cannot be used as credit towards any FREN Plan.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 107  Communication et culture II  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 144 (132 Online Activity, 12 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite None. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after any FREN or FRST course (exception - FREN 107/3.0 can be taken after FREN 106/3.0). Note This course cannot be used as credit towards any FREN Plan.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 118  Communication et culture III  Units: 3.00  
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 Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Lecture, 48 Online Activity, 60 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite None. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after FREN 150/6.0. Note This course cannot be used as credit towards any FREN Plan.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the essential grammar rules of the A2 proficiency level.
  2. Determine appropriate strategies to understand and respond to short written or audio documents relating to daily activities and common social situations.
  3. Write short, grammatically accurate texts which communicate ideas, opinions, and summarize information to solve common communicative problems.
  4. Communicate orally about familiar topics and express feelings, opinions, and desires, employing low-intermediate level vocabulary and grammatical concepts.
  5. Describe aspects of societies and cultures in French-speaking countries, especially with regards to interpersonal relationships, health and well-being, leisure activities and travelling, arts and media.
  
FREN 150  Français intermédiaire  Units: 6.00  
Practice in reading, writing, grammar review, and literary analysis.
NOTE A placement test is recommended prior to registering in this course, please visit the French Studies webpage for more information.
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Learning Hours: 240 (72 Lecture, 24 Tutorial, 36 Online Activity, 108 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite None. Exclusion Maximum of 6.0 units from: FREN 150/6.0; FREN 151/3.0; FREN 152/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify the structure of a sentence in order to apply rules of agreement and to select appropriate verb tenses.
  2. Justify these choices in the context of producing basic analyses of literary texts and films studied in class.
  3. Extract the principal ideas from a text or from a film sequence.
  4. Appreciate and describe the different francophone cultures under study.
  
FREN 151  Français intermédiaire I  Units: 3.00  
This course, offered entirely in French, is designed for non-native French speakers at the intermediate level (approximately B1) seeking to enhance their grammar, reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills.
NOTE Students who have completed Grade 12 Core French, International Baccalaureate French, French Immersion, French-as-a-Foreign Language (or the equivalent of these) should take the Placement Test prior to registering for the course to assess for possible placement in FREN 152 or upper-year French courses (200-level and above).
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 18 Online Activity, 54 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite None. Exclusion FREN 150/6.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the main rules of French grammar.
  2. Choose appropriate strategies to improve your understanding of a written or oral text, and evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies.
  3. Compose structured descriptive or narrative written texts with correct use of verb tenses, using the indicative and imperative modes.
  4. Interpret a literary text by developing reading and analytical strategies.
  5. Express your opinion, in writing or orally, on a given issue or on cultural themes covered in class and/or in your tutorials.
  6. Express yourself orally in both informal and formal settings.
  
FREN 152  Français intermédiaire II  Units: 3.00  
This course, delivered entirely in French, is designed for non-native French speakers at the intermediate level (approximately B1 to B2) seeking to enhance their grammar, reading, listening, writing and speaking skills, with an introduction to literary analysis.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 18 Online Activity, 54 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 151/3.0 or permission of the Department after completion of a Placement Test. Exclusion FREN 150/6.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the main rules of French grammar.
  2. Compose complex sentences, including subordinate clauses.
  3. Choose appropriate strategies to improve your understanding of a written or oral text, and evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies.
  4. Compose structured descriptive or narrative written texts with correct use of verb tenses and different modes (indicative, infinitive, subjunctive, etc.).
  5. Interpret a literary text by developing reading and analytical strategies.
  6. Express your opinion, in writing or orally, on a given issue or on cultural themes covered in class and/or in your tutorials.
  7. Express yourself orally in both informal and formal settings.
  
FREN 219  Communication et culture IV  Units: 3.00  
This course is designed for non-native French speakers approximately at the B1 level seeking to enhance their written and oral communication skills while gaining cultural insights and expanding their vocabulary pertaining to cultural concepts and practices. Emphasis is placed on aural comprehension, oral production, and active student participation. Throughout the course, learners work in small groups on collaborative projects to foster practical language application.
Learning Hours: 114 (36 Lecture, 78 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite None. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after FREN 320/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Communicate clearly with a degree of spontaneity and fluency with native French speakers on a variety of everyday topics and subjects relating to French and Francophone culture.
  2. Present opinions, positions, and arguments as demonstrated in debates and classroom discussions.
  3. Apply vocabulary and idiomatic expressions with a high level of grammatical accuracy in daily and formal conversations.
  4. Recount and narrate experiences and events using the correct past tenses and adverbs of time.
  5. Identify and understand the main ideas of concrete or abstract topics in complex texts as expressed in audio materials.
  
FREN 225  French in the Professional Workplace  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (30 Online Activity, 90 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 118/3.0 or FREN 150/6.0. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after any FREN 200- or 300-level course except for FREN 219/3.0; FREN 236/3.0; FREN 237/3.0; FREN 238/3.0; FREN 239/3.0 and/or FREN 320/3.0. Note This course is not intended for fluent French speakers and cannot be used as credit towards any FREN Plan.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 230  Analyse textuelle et étude de la langue  Units: 3.00  
The methodology of literary analysis. Assignments may include textual analysis and dissertation.
Learning Hours: 120 (30 Lecture, 6 Online Activity, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 150/6.0 or FREN 152/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Apply textual analysis tools to a variety of literary texts.
  2. Become familiar with the methods of reading and interpretation required to construct a textual analysis.
  3. Acquire and apply various tools for literary analysis.
  
FREN 231  Rédaction et style  Units: 3.00  
A presentation of the principles of textual production in French as applied in the production of various types of texts.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 12 Group Learning, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 150/6.0 or FREN 152/3.0. Equivalency FREN 330/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify and apply different writing and editing strategies in different types of texts and practice implementing them in your work.
  2. Develop mastery of textual organization, including structure, idea development, and transitions, to create work that is coherent, persuasive, and stylistically as well as grammatically accurate.
  3. Use the features of the Antidote corrector for writing and revising texts.
  4. Take ownership of your learning by maintaining attendance, managing time and effort, staying focused, and exercising sound judgment to identify, organize, and integrate the materials necessary for success.
  
FREN 236  French for Healthcare Professionals  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (30 Online Activity, 90 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 118/3.0 or FREN 150/6.0 or permission of the Department. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after any FREN 200 or 300-level course except for FREN 219/3.0; FREN 225/3.0; FREN 237/3.0; FREN 238/3.0; FREN 239/3.0; FREN 320/3.0. Note This course is not intended for fluent French speakers and cannot be used as credit towards any FREN Plan.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 237  French for Government Professionals  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (30 Online Activity, 90 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 118/3.0 or FREN 150/6.0 or permission of the Department. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after any FREN 200 or 300-level course except for FREN 219/3.0; FREN 225/3.0; FREN 236/3.0; FREN 238/3.0; FREN 239/3.0; FREN 320/3.0. Note This course is not intended for fluent French speakers and cannot be used as credit towards any FREN Plan.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 238  French for Legal Professionals  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (30 Online Activity, 90 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 118/3.0 or FREN 150/6.0 or permission of the Department. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after any FREN 200 or 300-level course except for FREN 219/3.0; FREN 225/3.0; FREN 236/3.0; FREN 237/3.0; FREN 239/3.0; FREN 320/3.0. Note This course is not intended for fluent French speakers and cannot be used as credit towards any FREN Plan.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 239  French Language for Indigenous Contexts  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (9 Seminar, 3 Practicum, 36 Online Activity, 72 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 118/3.0 or FREN 150/6.0 or permission of the Department. One-Way Exclusion May not be taken with or after any FREN 200 or 300-level course except for FREN 219/3.0; FREN 225/3.0; FREN 236/3.0; FREN 237/3.0; FREN 238/3.0; FREN 320/3.0. Note This course is not intended for fluent French speakers and cannot be used as credit towards any FREN Plan.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 304  Introduction à la littérature française du Moyen Age  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 404/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 305  Le théâtre depuis 1945  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 417/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 315  Littérature française de la Renaissance  Units: 3.00  
A study of representative literary works of the 15th and 16th centuries, including Villon, Montaigne, Rabelais. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 405/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 320  Communication et culture V  Units: 3.00  
This course is designed for non-native French speakers approximately at the B2 level seeking to fine-tune their written and oral communication skills while acquiring cultural insights and enriching their vocabulary pertaining to cultural concepts and practices. Throughout the course, learners engage in both individual and small group activities, exploring diverse contemporary topics that foster proficiency in language subtleties, cultural awareness, and a more global perspective.
Learning Hours: 114 (36 Lecture, 78 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite None. Note This course is not intended for Francophones or students with native proficiency in French. Contact the Department of French Studies for more information.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Communicate effectively and fluently with native French speakers on a variety of complex subjects relating to French and Francophone culture and current affairs.
  2. Present opinions, hypotheses, and arguments as well as improvise in professional and academic dialogues such as interviews and debates.
  3. Apply advanced vocabulary, expressions, and grammatical and syntactic structure in daily and formal conversations.
  4. Avoid and self-correct false translations and anglicisms.
  5. Identify and explain cultural references, abstract and complex topics, and nuances as expressed in audio materials.
  
FREN 324  Le roman français du 20e siècle  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 424/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 325  Littérature contemporaine  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (33 Lecture, 3 Practicum, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 425/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 327  Le Cinéma aujourd'hui: Études thématiques  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 329  Corps politiques  Units: 3.00  
Through its study of various cultural productions, theoretical texts and essays, this course examines different meanings surrounding the concept of the human body. The course aims to familiarize students with several contemporary artists and thinkers whose creative and intellectual practices reflect on political issues by showing various ways of inhabiting the human body. How are norms for the human body constructed? Which forms of the human body do they prioritize, and which are seen as marginal?
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0 Exclusion FREN 389/3.0 (Topic Title: Corps politiques - Winter 2023).  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Develop critical thinking around the conceptualization of the human body.
  2. Identify different theories of the human body.
  3. Analyze different representations of the human body in fiction and poetry.
  4. Integrate and to expand the concepts explored in class through oral and written expression.
  
FREN 331  Rédaction et style II  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 231/3.0 or FREN 330/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 341  Histoire culturelle et littéraire de l'Ancien Régime  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Equivalency FREN 241/3.0*.  
Course Equivalencies: FREN 241/3.0*, FREN 341/3.0  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify major historical periods and determine their incidence for the study of the literature of these periods.
  2. Examine the principal themes and writing styles in several representative works illustrative of the thought and writing of the ancient regime.
  3. Produce written texts on the subject matter of the course and read aloud from materials in the course.
  4. Distinguish the various literary genres and situate texts appropriately in this framework.
  5. Use linguistic tools and historical perspectives to analyze and interpret a literary text.
  6. Acquire the appropriate vocabulary and tools in order to produce a dissertation or a commentary.
  
FREN 342  Histoire culturelle et littéraire de la France moderne et contemporaine  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 343  Histoire culturelle et littéraire de la francophonie et du Québec  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 350  Littérature autochtones comparées en Amérique du Nord  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify and describe critical and creative works by Indigenous scholars, writers, filmmakers, and other thinkers and creators across North America.
  2. Explain key critical approaches developed in Indigenous literary studies, with a focus on comparative approaches to literatures.
  3. Apply the close reading methodologies and other techniques of comparative literary analysis presented in this course.
  4. Interpret and analyze critical and creative Indigenous works in relation to one another and to the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are created and circulated.
  5. As part of a final essay, communicate effectively the constitutive elements of a comparative critical analysis on at least two works or elements of the material studied.
  
FREN 351  Ecrits de la Francophonie  Units: 3.00  
A study of representative works by African and the Caribbean writers. Travaux pratiques include essays and tests.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 451/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 352  Vers de nouveaux récits pour Haïti: Une introduction aux études haïtiennes  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 354  Culture du livre et prix littéraires: la fabrique de la valeur  Units: 3.00  
This course is structured around the analysis of a case study. Students will analyze the short list of a major literary award. It aims to provide knowledge of key concepts in book culture (literary field, cultural globalization; conglomeration; and bibliodiversity) and to enable to the understanding of book circulation and the power dynamics it underpins.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Consider the social, political, cultural, and economic value of a literary text in relation to its historical and national context.
  2. Analyze and discuss literary merit both orally and in written form.
  3. Understand the role of prize culture in the economy of literary art.
  4. Debate the relative value of diverse literary works with respect to both personal taste and defined assessment criteria.
  5. Develop a critical vocabulary about literature and the economics of books.
  6. Improve reading, writing, and speaking skills in French at an advanced level.
  
FREN 360  Grammaire avancée  Units: 3.00  
A detailed analysis of French grammar based on the description of language structures.
Learning Hours: 126 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 78 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 231/3.0 or FREN 330/3.0*. Equivalency FREN 250/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 361  Travaux pratiques de traduction  Units: 3.00  
A practical translation course. Review exercises in comparative stylistics, written, and oral themes.
Learning Hours: 132 (24 Lecture, 12 Group Learning, 96 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 231/3.0. Equivalency FREN 450/3.0*.  
Course Equivalencies: FREN 361, FREN 450/3.0*  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Develop a general understanding of the different types of specialization covered by the field of translation.
  2. Use different strategies, approaches, techniques and resources depending on the type of translation.
  3. Articulate and justify a thoughtful translation strategy aimed at minimizing the loss of relevant elements in a text or any other document, and compensating for their absence in a subsequent translation.
  4. Produce translations that are grammatically accurate, culturally sensitive and adapted to the objectives of the source text or document.
  5. Engage with different cultural contexts and reflect on the intrinsic limits of translation.
  
FREN 363  Histoire de la langue française  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 387  Littérature du 17e siècle  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 487/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 388  Littérature du 18e siècle  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 389  Special Topics in French Language and Literature  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Gain a foundational knowledge of the topic.
  2. Describe the key concepts related to the topic.
  3. Engage in respectful discussions on issues pertaining to the topic.
  4. Critically reflect on the issues pertaining to the topic.
  5. Respond creatively to a theme discussed on the topic.
  
FREN 390  Genre et littérature  Units: 3.00  
A study of discourse on and by women in representative works (primarily the novel). Travaux pratiques may include essays and tests.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 490/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 391  Auteurs et thèmes en littérature québécoise  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 132 (24 Lecture, 12 Seminar, 24 Individual Instruction, 72 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 407/3.0*; FREN 491/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 392  Paris Through Literature, Painting, Cinema, and Photography  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (48 Online Activity, 72 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FRST 290/3.0; IDIS 290/3.0*. Equivalency FREN 290/3.0*.  
Course Equivalencies: IDIS290; FREN290  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 394  Montréal interculturel: une métropole en représentation  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FRST 294/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 396  Cinéma et culture québécoise  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 126 (36 Lecture, 6 Online Activity, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FREN 496/3.0*.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 397  Les humanités médicales  Units: 3.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 6 Group Learning, 6 Online Activity, 72 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0. Exclusion FRST 397/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 495  Honours Thesis  Units: 6.00  
This year-long course, reserved for students in the French Studies Specialization, will be devoted, with the help of a supervisor, to independent research and writing of an end-of-study thesis.
Learning Hours: 240 (12 Individual Instruction, 228 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 4 or above and registration in a FREN Specialization and a minimum GPA of 3.5 on all units in FREN and permission of the Department.  
Course Equivalencies: FREN 495, FREN 495B  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify relevant research issues and define a problem on one of these issues.
  2. Conduct independent research from a critical and/or theoretical perspective, using an appropriate methodology.
  3. Formulate concisely the results of their research.
  4. Orally communicate and defend their research work effectively.
  
FREN 498  Séminaire: littérature et enjeux sociaux  Units: 3.00  
Taking place over a full year, this seminar will give students enrolled in the Major and Specialization programs the opportunity to reflect on the impact of literature on certain issues. During the fall term, students will work on creating a corpus of works that will enable them to reflect on a given issue, and to begin commenting on them through workshops (1 text in fall; 5 texts in winter). This work will intensify in the winter term: in addition to workshops, students will be responsible for organizing a student conference at which they will present the fruits of their work over the course of the year. This will also serve as an assessment of the potential contribution of the selected texts to the debate on the year's given issue.
Learning Hours: 132 (36 Seminar, 4 Practicum, 12 Group Learning, 80 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 4 or above and registration in a FREN Plan) or permission of the Department.  
Course Equivalencies: FREN 498, FREN 498B  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Independently construct a collection of literary works raising pertinent questions on a given issue.
  2. Conduct independent research on a literary work.
  3. Orally communicate and defend a paper based on this research.
  4. Exercise critical thinking by discussing literary texts based on their research.
  5. Prepare and organize an academic conference.
  
FREN 499  Apprentissage et enseignement du français langue seconde  Units: 6.00  
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.
Learning Hours: 240 (36 Seminar, 84 Practicum, 120 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite {PROF 110/3.0 and ([PROF 210/3.0 or CURR 395/1.5] and PRAC 210/1.5) or (PROF 211/1.5 and PRAC 211/1.5) and (FREN 230/3.0 and FREN 231/3.0 and [FREN 341/3.0 or FREN 342/3.0 or FREN 343/3.0]) and permission of the Department}.  
Course Equivalencies: FREN 499, FREN 499B  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 501  Recherches dirigées I  Units: 3.00  
Research in a particular area of French literature or language under the supervision of a professor.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Individual Instruction, 96 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite Permission of the Department and approval of the Supervisor.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
FREN 502  Recherches dirigées II  Units: 3.00  
Research in a particular area of French literature or language under the supervision of a professor.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Individual Instruction, 96 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite Permission of the Department and approval of the Supervisor.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science