This unit of study is designed for students with little or no formal experience in French. It aims to provide students with the tools to develop independent language learning skills. Through the introduction of authentic material in French, students will develop a mastery of the basic grammatical structures of the language, as well as awareness and understanding of the French and Francophone cultures.

FRNC1602 French 2 is the continuation of FRNC1601 French 1. It is designed to further students' understanding of French and Francophone cultures, and strengthen their speaking, reading, writing and listening skills.

FRNC2603 French 3 is the continuation of FRNC1602 French 2. The unit will give students an opportunity to consolidate their oral and written communication, develop their knowledge of various aspects of French and Francophone culture, and enhance their analytical and critical skills.

This unit follows FRNC2603. It focuses on building inter-and intra-cultural competence. Students engage with audiovisual clips and a series of short texts in order to identify areas of cross-cultural misunderstanding in everyday life. They then conduct an information gathering of their own on which they later report in class. The unit concentrates on the grammatical structures and skills required to perform these tasks: complex sentence construction (including reported speech) and consolidation and development of strategies for speaking.

This unit is required for the major in the French and Francophone Studies introductory and intermediate streams. It explores how French and Francophone societies have evolved from the early 20th century to the present, and how visions of the Francophone worlds continue to shift across time and space. By examining literary texts, artworks, films and/or theoretical essays, students develop reading and critical skills in French. With this unit, students examine how French and Francophone identities and cultures have been shaped and upheaved by key political, social and cultural shifts in the past and present centuries.

This unit is required for the major in the intermediate stream. It will introduce students to the study of French and Francophone contemporary history and social issues and the development of French national and cultural identity in modern times. The unit will also develop listening, reading, writing and analytical skills through close study of a variety of authentic audiovisual and written texts.

This online unit taught completely in English complements your French language studies, offering an overview of the cultural diversity in the French-speaking world. You will acquire the foundations of Francophone culture through modules designed around themes such as popular culture; race, gender and identity in the French diaspora; politics; history; literature; cinema; contemporary French society.

The focus of this unit of study is French language. It will familiarise you with the status and profile of the main varieties of French within and outside France as well as current issues in language policy in the French speaking world, while introducing you to key concepts such as register, linguistic variation (according to gender, age, social origin, etc.), or issues of multilingualism and diglossia. Through critical reading and practice, you will learn how to design, conduct and report research projects regarding French language.

With the world dominance of Facebook, is there a role for French-speaking social media? This unit examines the social media phenomenon in France and Francophonie: its cultural specificities and unique development, its place in youth and minority cultures, its impact on the French language and social and political interactions, as well as its problematic relationship with French legislation. Online communications and the 'practice' of one of the main French language social media will be an important part of the course.

What does 'Popular Culture' mean? In this unit we will examine the origins, definitions and distinctions of French and Francophone Popular Culture. By examining a wide variety of media, the elements that define and characterise popular culture will be viewed in their historical and socio-cultural environments. Popular culture's social, ideological and psychological roles, based on the studies of the theories of Barthes, Baudrillard, Bourdieu and Lipovetsky, will be analysed and discussed. This will lead to a more reflective understanding of culture.

This unit of study will examine the French literary field, its traditions and its innovations. The approach will be both literary and sociological. Major theoretical and cultural issues related to literature studies, such as the "death of the author", the emergence of new literary genres and textualities ("bandes dessinees", writers' blogs, fiction online) and the future of the book (literary agencies, creative writing workshops, awards and competitions) will be viewed in their socio-cultural environment.

According to many scholars, the roots of the French "polar" that have influenced its development into a unique and popular literary genre are partially found in the American detective fiction of the interwar years, as well as in the 19th century French "roman populaire". This unit of study traces the history of the French detective fiction novel and the elements common to the genre. It exposes students to a variety of texts with a common setting: Paris. The unit addresses why the French capital has often been chosen as a setting for the genre, and how the representation of Paris varies from one "polar" to another.

This unit will investigate the historical forms of daily writing in France, and how such forms have contributed
to the structuring of private and public identity. It will examine the links between technological innovation and the emergence of daily writing, and will concentrate in particular on the development of the private `journal' (diary) and the public `journal' (newspaper) in nineteenth-century France.

FRNC3001 will focus on consolidation of grammar, extension of vocabulary and development of communication skills. An understanding of contemporary French and Francophone societies and cultures will be enhanced through study of authentic written and audiovisual materials.

This unit is a continuation of FRNC3001 French 5. Students will continue to develop their listening and speaking skills thatwere the focus of FRNC3001. An added emphasis in FRNC3002 will be on the development of reading and writing skills. Grammar consolidation will continue, and students will learn self-editing skills. They will also be introduced to preliminary translation skills and build their independent research techniques as well as their literary analysis techniques that were introduced in FRNC3001. In FRNC3002 this will be done through the study of a contemporary text in various forms: novel, film, chanson and documents relating to French and Francophone contemporary history.

French cinema will be used to gain knowledge about French history and culture. Each film will involve studying vocabulary, translation, grammatical exercises, reading literary or cultural texts. Students will develop listening skills through listening to the news and develop writing skills through short essays in French.

This semester, students will learn about the world of French and Francophone literature and the arts and develop an understanding of some key cultural references. They will read and discuss a variety of short literary texts and in doing so, develop their vocabulary range and consolidate their knowledge of grammatical tenses. Essay-writing skills will be consolidated and students will work in teams on small projects to be presented to the class.

This unit is designed for students who have completed FRNC3002. It explores French and Francophone current events and contemporary debates through texts (literature and theory), images (including films) and news-related multimedia sources. Students consolidate communicative and analytical skills with oral and written activities designed to examine some of the political/social/cultural/spatial and generational divides that define today's Francophone worlds. Through essay writing, close analysis, oral presentation and in-class discussion, students further develop their advanced language skills and strengthen their grasp of contemporary French and Francophone societies and cultures.

In this unit of study, students will develop further their oral and written skills, and their understanding of French and Francophone culture. Emphasis will be placed on developing an argument with rigor and precision, and improving students' fluency, spontaneity and accuracy. Students will also have the opportunity to practice translation skills. A range of authentic material will be used, drawn from written, audio-visual media and literary sources.

An investigation into the theory and practice of translation, from French into English, and English into French.Students will be required to undertake weekly exercises in translation and to build a translation portfolio with critical and analytical commentary.

Our life stories are never wholly our own. This course will focus on the various ways in which recent French life writing explores the boundaries between self and other, the individual and the collective, the personal and the social. Students will be familiarised with the development of autobiographical writing in France and introduced to recent autobiographical theory. They will be encouraged to dialogue with both autobiographical and theoretical texts through discussion and written exercises.

This unit will focus on a type of filmmaking that shows political and social awareness by depicting sociopolitical events, contemporary social realities in France and issues of marginality and difference. It will consider the contexts in which various trends of political films have emerged, the influence of post-war film history and contemporary events. The unit will explore issues of cinematic representation of marginality, ethnicity, sexuality and difference. Film screenings are an integral part of the course.

This unit of study examines intellectual movements in France and Francophone countries since World War II, in particular existentialism, feminism, post-structuralism and postcolonialism, through the study of key French and Francophone texts and films.

Interdisciplinarity is a key skill in fostering agility in life and work. This unit provides learning experiences that build students' skills, knowledge and understanding of the application of their disciplinary background to interdisciplinary contexts. In this unit, students will work in teams and develop interdisciplinarity skills through problem-based learning projects responding to 'real world problems'.

This interdisciplinary unit provides students with the opportunity to address complex problems identified by industry, community, and government organisations, and gain valuable experience in working across disciplinary boundaries. In collaboration with a major industry partner and an academic lead, students integrate their academic skills and knowledge by working in teams with students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. This experience allows students to research, analyse and present solutions to a real¿world problem, and to build on their interpersonal and transferable skills by engaging with and learning from industry experts and presenting their ideas and solutions to the industry partner.