The aim of the course is to improve and widen the listening, speaking and writing skills of those taking it, consolidating their knowledge of the full range of basic grammatical structures and broadening their general range of vocabulary. By the end of the course, students should have reached approximately the level A2 standard on the Common European Framework References for Languages.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
SD-2 | Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 |
SD-2 | Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 |
SD-2 | Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 |
This course is intended to expose students to the various neighborhoods of Paris. They will discover many aspects of the city - the unexpected, the hidden culture, and the everyday lives of Parisians by plunging into the works of Brassaï, Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, Kertész, Lartigue, Sieff, Bourdin, Newton, Klein, Calle and other masters of photography. The course encourages students to develop their own creative process by producing porte-folios including both their photographs and their written texts on Paris.
Ce cours fait découvrir aux étudiants les quartiers de Paris, leurs aspects les plus insolites et les plus secrets mais aussi les plus quotidiens en les plongeant dans les univers de Brassaï, Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, Kertész, Lartigue, Sieff, Bourdin, Newton, Klein, Calle et autres maîtres de la photographie. Ce cours privilégie une démarche créative de la part des étudiants qui devront produire des photos et des textes sur Paris.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
C-101 | Tuesday | 16:55 | 19:50 |
A bilingual survey of linguistics conducted in French and English. Combines theory and practice to introduce students to the basic concepts in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Focuses on the study of the human language as a system, the forms and functions of words and sentence elements, the creativity inherent in language systems, and language varieties. Prepares students to further investigate areas such as Historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language pathologies and first/second language acquisition.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
G-102 | Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
G-102 | Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
This course essentially happens in the theatres of Paris, exploring the city’s fabulous resources, exchanging with practitioners and scholars from other institutions. We see ways of integrating music, dance and “physical theatre,” innovative explorations of classics from European and non-European traditions, avant-garde masters and the brightest young experimental troupes. We have theatre that directly questions political dilemmas, collective theatre and director-driven theatre, machine theatre and theatre based around great individual actors. Taught in French. Papers done in French or English.
Course fee attached.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
SD-4 | Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 |
SD-4 | Friday | 15:20 | 16:40 |
Topics vary every semester
Pre-requisite: FR 1200
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
G-002 | Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
G-002 | Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
SD-5 | Wednesday | 13:45 | 16:40 |
This course reviews basic and complex sentence patterns in greater depth through discussions on students experience in Paris. Cultural and historical aspects of the French life are introduced. Students will learn additional vocabulary to express opinions, beliefs, doubts and emotions, and are shown various language registers (formal/informal vocabulary and structures) and intonations. Examples are taken from real life situations, film, television, newspaper articles, etc.The four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing) will be reinforced.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
Q-704 | Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
Q-704 | Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
Q-704 | Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
This course reviews basic and complex sentence patterns in greater depth through discussions on students experience in Paris. Cultural and historical aspects of the French life are introduced. Students will learn additional vocabulary to express opinions, beliefs, doubts and emotions, and are shown various language registers (formal/informal vocabulary and structures) and intonations. Examples are taken from real life situations, film, television, newspaper articles, etc.The four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing) will be reinforced.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
Q-704 | Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
Q-704 | Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
Q-704 | Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
This high intermediate course allows students to reinforce and expand their ability to express themselves, defend an opinion, and debate with others. Special attention is paid to increasing students' ability to form complex sentences to express attitudes, wishes, necessity, doubt, emotions, to link ideas and to speculate.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
SD-2 | Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
SD-2 | Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
SD-4 | Wednesday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
Using authentic material from various media, the students will be given systematic exercises to improve their comprehension of a large variety of francophone voices and accents recorded in different contexts daily lives, media interviews or professional presentations). The students will summarize the main points of these short oral texts and therefore improve on their logical and oral argumentative skills. The students will also concentrate on the writing of these different documents and will try to rewrite them in the “French style”. Taught in French.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
SD-4 | Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
SD-4 | Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 |