French Postgraduate Modules Offered

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• Culture Litteraire

  FREN708 H1

  Aim: To make students aware of literature as a cultural phenomenon, situated in history and constantly evolving.

  Content: Extracts of literature in French from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century, discussed from the point of view of literary genre.

  Assessment: Class mark: 50%; examination: 50%

  DP Requirement: Submission of all written work and compliance with the attendance requirements of the school.

• Teaching Internship

  FREN710 HC PC

  Aim: Students may apply for a bursary to work as an English tutor in a school in France. The aim of the internship is to develop linguistic and cultural competence in French and to develop the ability to tutor a foreign language in a structured classroom situation.

  Content: Students conduct classes in which role-play, dialogues, basic vocabulary and grammar revision form the basis of the teaching and learning.

  Assessment: 20-minute oral interview conducted in French. A 15-20 page report in French, in which students describe the teaching environment, evaluate the experience gained, attach lesson plans and critically comment on and evaluate the lessons.

  DP Requirement: Submission of all written work on time and compliance with the attendance requirements of the school.

• African Literature in French

  FREN720 PC

  Aim: To enable students to appreciate the concerns and preoccupations of novelists from continental Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands who write in French. To equip students to appreciate their specific and individual use of the French language.

  Content: A study of the Negritude movement and its effect on the 20th century African literature written in French. An in-depth analysis of a section of both pre- and post-independence novels.

  Assessment: Class mark: 50%; examination: 50%

  DP Requirement: Submission of all written work on time and compliance with the attendance requirements of the school.

• French Translation Part 1

  FREN730 PC

  Aim: To enable students to further their practice of translation from and into French.

  Content: A study of translation as an academic exercise; is it a skill or an art? Its secondary purpose is the honing of learners' ability to translate both literary and scientific texts.

  Assessment: Class mark: 50%; examination: 50%

  DP Requirement: Submission of all written work on time and compliance with the attendance requirements of the school.

• French Translation Part 2

  FREN731 PC

  Aim: To enable students to further their practice of translation from and into French (continuation of Part 1).

  Content: A study of translation as an academic exercise; is it a skill or an art? Its secondary purpose is the honing of learners' ability to translate both literary and scientific texts.

  Assessment: Class mark: 50%; examination: 50%

  DP Requirement: Submission of all written work on time and compliance with the attendance requirements of the school.

• Special Topics in French Studies

  FREN770 HC PC

  Content: From time to time the French Programme is able to offer one or more special modules, the purpose of which will be to explore new areas and themes emerging in the discipline or arising from the research of current or visiting members of the teaching staff.

  Assessment: Class mark: 50%; examination: 50%

  DP Requirement: Submission of all written work on time and compliance with the attendance requirements of the school.

• Special Topics in French Literature

  FREN771 HC PC

  Content: From time to time the French Programme is able to offer one or more special modules, the purpose of which will be to explore new areas and themes emerging in the discipline or arising from the research of current or visiting members of the teaching staff.

  Assessment: Class mark: 50%; examination: 50%

  DP Requirement: Submission of all written work on time and compliance with the attendance requirements of the school.

  
  

  
  

• Research Paper: French

  FREN7RP H2 P2

  Aim: To enable students to conduct supervised research on an approved topic leading to a dissertation.

  Content: An introduction to research methods and proposal writing; individual research on an approved topic.

  Assessment: Examination of the dissertation.

  DP Requirement: Submission of all written work on time and compliance with the attendance requirements of the school.