This course offers an additional opportunity for deepening and widening students’ knowledge and general sensitivity to French and Francophone Literature. Texts studied
are selected from the two major areas of Metropolitan France and Francophone Africa. More advanced exercises in critical essays and literary appreciation are offered here.
This course equips students with more advanced techniques in linguistic analysis in French, especially in the areas of syntax, morphology and semantics.
Students are also exposed to a more advanced study in the field of pragmatics such as the use of modality and speech acts in selected texts.
This course complements FRE 101. It develops the written competence of students through the use of simple texts. This is done through exercises in grammar, comprehension,
exercises on conjugation and construction of the basic sentence. Students are then helped to use the grammatical structures they have learnt in writing simple narrative essays.
This course teaches students the techniques of essay writing related to letter writing and narrative essays. The emphasis is on the accurate use of grammatical structures (i.e. direct and indirect speech and tenses) and the various forms of expressions relevant to the writing of narrative essays and informal letters. Students will be taught to vary the structure and length of their sentences in order to avoid monotony.
The course introduces students to the functions of a secretary. It then focuses on the teaching of language used mainly in correspondence in corporate business organisations, civil administration and commerce. Model correspondences are studied and analysed; exercises in class, assignments and quizzes are given to ensure effective assimilation of appropriate use of technical language and practice.
The course gives a deeper understanding of literature as an art and, in the process, equips the student with the necessary skills and sensitivity for literary analysis, appreciation and interpretation.
Representative French and Francophone literary texts are selected to exemplify the various genres. Background study of the chosen texts relates them to their background of time, space and thought.
This course focuses on Classical and Enlightenment French Literature. It expands and deepens students’ knowledge of French Literature and Literature in general acquired
during the first two years. Texts that have some bearing on Africa such as Voltaire’s Candid, Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes, Le Barbier de Seville, Le Mariage de Figaro de
Beaumarchais, the philosophical short stories of Voltaire and relevant texts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau are studied.
This course teaches the various registers associated with the corporate world including the banking, marketing, financial and money markets and business organisations and
administration at all levels: local, regional, international and global. Appropriate models are studied; copious opportunities and situations are created for practical application of skills learnt.
The course exposes students to linguistic analysis in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. In addition, students are introduced to prosody, and notions related to the pragmatic functions of language.
