Not every course listed in this Calendar is offered every year. Courses may be offered in different formats depending on the term, including in‑person, online, or at the Bader College campus. For the most up‑to‑date information on course offerings, modalities, and locations, students are advised to consult the course timetable on SOLUS or the appropriate department.
Note: This subject code is administered by the Department of French Studies.
NOTE To determine eligibility, students must complete the French Placement Test and submit a solemn declaration of their proficiency level (see Department website for additional details).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the essential grammar rules of the A2 proficiency level.
- Determine appropriate strategies to understand and respond to short written or audio documents relating to daily activities and common social situations.
- Write short, grammatically accurate texts which communicate ideas, opinions, and summarize information to solve common communicative problems.
- Communicate orally about familiar topics and express feelings, opinions, and desires, employing low-intermediate level vocabulary and grammatical concepts.
- 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.
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).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the main rules of French grammar.
- Choose appropriate strategies to improve your understanding of a written or oral text, and evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies.
- Compose structured descriptive or narrative written texts with correct use of verb tenses, using the indicative and imperative modes.
- Interpret a literary text by developing reading and analytical strategies.
- Express your opinion, in writing or orally, on a given issue or on cultural themes covered in class and/or in your tutorials.
- Express yourself orally in both informal and formal settings.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the main rules of French grammar.
- Compose complex sentences, including subordinate clauses.
- Choose appropriate strategies to improve your understanding of a written or oral text, and evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies.
- Compose structured descriptive or narrative written texts with correct use of verb tenses and different modes (indicative, infinitive, subjunctive, etc.).
- Interpret a literary text by developing reading and analytical strategies.
- Express your opinion, in writing or orally, on a given issue or on cultural themes covered in class and/or in your tutorials.
- Express yourself orally in both informal and formal settings.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- 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.
- Present opinions, positions, and arguments as demonstrated in debates and classroom discussions.
- Apply vocabulary and idiomatic expressions with a high level of grammatical accuracy in daily and formal conversations.
- Recount and narrate experiences and events using the correct past tenses and adverbs of time.
- Identify and understand the main ideas of concrete or abstract topics in complex texts as expressed in audio materials.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply textual analysis tools to a variety of literary texts.
- Become familiar with the methods of reading and interpretation required to construct a textual analysis.
- Acquire and apply various tools for literary analysis.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and apply different writing and editing strategies in different types of texts and practice implementing them in your work.
- 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.
- Use the features of the Antidote corrector for writing and revising texts.
- 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.
NOTE Language is the principal focus of this course. Prior experience or professional knowledge in the field is not necessary.
NOTE Language is the principal focus of this course. Prior experience or professional knowledge in the field is not necessary.
NOTE Language is the principal focus of this course. Prior experience or professional knowledge in the field is not necessary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Communicate effectively and fluently with native French speakers on a variety of complex subjects relating to French and Francophone culture and current affairs.
- Present opinions, hypotheses, and arguments as well as improvise in professional and academic dialogues such as interviews and debates.
- Apply advanced vocabulary, expressions, and grammatical and syntactic structure in daily and formal conversations.
- Avoid and self-correct false translations and anglicisms.
- Identify and explain cultural references, abstract and complex topics, and nuances as expressed in audio materials.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how the corpus studied fits into the history of cinema and its main genres and trends.
- Learn about key concepts in film theory.
- Apply the film analysis techniques and methodologies presented in this course by writing a critical analysis.
- Interpret and analyze different films based on a given context or specific theme.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop critical thinking around the conceptualization of the human body.
- Identify different theories of the human body.
- Analyze different representations of the human body in fiction and poetry.
- Integrate and to expand the concepts explored in class through oral and written expression.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify major historical periods and determine their incidence for the study of the literature of these periods.
- Examine the principal themes and writing styles in several representative works illustrative of the thought and writing of the ancient regime.
- Produce written texts on the subject matter of the course and read aloud from materials in the course.
- Distinguish the various literary genres and situate texts appropriately in this framework.
- Use linguistic tools and historical perspectives to analyze and interpret a literary text.
- Acquire the appropriate vocabulary and tools in order to produce a dissertation or a commentary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe critical and creative works by Indigenous scholars, writers, filmmakers, and other thinkers and creators across North America.
- Explain key critical approaches developed in Indigenous literary studies, with a focus on comparative approaches to literatures.
- Apply the close reading methodologies and other techniques of comparative literary analysis presented in this course.
- 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.
- 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.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Consider the social, political, cultural, and economic value of a literary text in relation to its historical and national context.
- Analyze and discuss literary merit both orally and in written form.
- Understand the role of prize culture in the economy of literary art.
- Debate the relative value of diverse literary works with respect to both personal taste and defined assessment criteria.
- Develop a critical vocabulary about literature and the economics of books.
- Improve reading, writing, and speaking skills in French at an advanced level.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Master the terminology of modern grammatical analysis.
- Become capable of identifying the basic sentence and its constituents, including categories and functions.
- Master the various syntactic manipulations required to analyze sentences.
- Become capable of producing a syntactic representation for various elements of simple and complex sentences.
- Discover how to produce various types of grammatical agreement.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a general understanding of the different types of specialization covered by the field of translation.
- Use different strategies, approaches, techniques and resources depending on the type of translation.
- 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.
- Produce translations that are grammatically accurate, culturally sensitive and adapted to the objectives of the source text or document.
- Engage with different cultural contexts and reflect on the intrinsic limits of translation.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Gain a foundational knowledge of the topic.
- Describe the key concepts related to the topic.
- Engage in respectful discussions on issues pertaining to the topic.
- Critically reflect on the issues pertaining to the topic.
- Respond creatively to a theme discussed on the topic.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
NOTE Taught in English together with FRST 290/3.0. Students concentrating in French submit written assignments, tests, and examinations in French.
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.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify relevant research issues and define a problem on one of these issues.
- Conduct independent research from a critical and/or theoretical perspective, using an appropriate methodology.
- Formulate concisely the results of their research.
- Orally communicate and defend their research work effectively.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Independently construct a collection of literary works raising pertinent questions on a given issue.
- Conduct independent research on a literary work.
- Orally communicate and defend a paper based on this research.
- Exercise critical thinking by discussing literary texts based on their research.
- Prepare and organize an academic conference.
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.
