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Advanced French Composition

This course develops competence in the writing of expository and persuasive essays. Procedures used in paragraph cohesion and coherence as well as the structure and

use of specific types of discourse related to the two text types are taught. Particular attention is given to the correct use of words and expressions relevant to the topics treated.

Course Code: 
FRE 320
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Literary Research Methods

This course offers the student a deeper insight into the essential components of literary writing. It equips the student with the necessary tools and techniques for dealing

with the problems of research and research report writing. It thus prepares the student not only for his final year project but also for research activities for the future.

Course Code: 
FRE 399
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

French Thought

This course provides, in a first part, tools for comprehending the cognitive process in general and its product. In a second part, it studies selected products of the cognitive process

within the Francophone environment. The course further trains and encourages students in the reading of expository writing in order to habituate them to critical reflection.  Works for

study are taken from such writers as Montaigne, Descartes, Condillac, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Auguste Comte, Sartre, and Beauvoir.

Course Code: 
FRE 408
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Romantic and Contemporary French Literature II

This course further extends the horizon of the student’s literary experience. Emphasis is laid on literary appreciation and critical essay writing.

Students study selected works of leading writers of the two periods: Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal Flaubert, Musset, Georges Sand,

Baudelaire, Gide, Camus, Malraux, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, François Mauriac, Verlaine, Valéry, Giono, Céline, and Saint-Exupéry are studied.

Course Code: 
FRE 412
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Emergence and Evolution of African Literature in French

This course initiates students to the post-colonial African Literature: Literature of disenchantment. The course also gives a deep insight into the relationship between literature and the contemporary African society. Literature is presented as a tool for the apprehension, analysis and criticism of societal realities. The civilisation component conscientizes students to historical, social, cultural and economic contexts of the Francophone African world. Representative texts exemplifying the disillusionment of post-independence writings are used. Works of authors like Sembène Ousmane, Mongo Beti, Alioum Fantouré, Mariama Bâ, Aminata Sow Fall are studied.

Course Code: 
FRE 414
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Advanced French Literary History

This course treats at a more advanced level a survey of French literary movements and schools in modern and contemporary French and Francophone Literature. Attention is

focused on major movements like Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism and Surrealism. Selection of illustrative texts is guided by relevance to Ghana and Africa.

Course Code: 
FRE 418
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

French Syntax Analysis

This course equips the students with linguistic tools used in French syntax analysis.  In addition, students learn to do syntactic analysis of different types of sentences such

as the complex sentence and its various forms and how these sentences are used by the masters in the organisation of discourse. Areas covered are: subordination, complementation,

apposition and passivation. Other types of sentences as problem areas will also be treated using linguistic methods of analysis.  

 

Course Code: 
FRE 420
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Project Work

This course takes students through the major phases of research and also the composition of the results of research efforts. This should lead to the production of a long essay of between 20 and 40 A4 type-written double-spaced pages. The essay should have a central thesis preceded by a literature review that establishes the validity of the thesis. The areas of study include French Language and Linguistics, French Thought, French and Francophone African Literature and Civilization.

 

Course Code: 
FRE 499
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French
Degree Type: 
Bachelor of ArtsDepartment of French
Programme Duration: 
4 years (Standard Entry)
Entry Requirements: 

  • SSSCE/WASSCE Holders

  • Mature Candidates

Candidates must have six (6) passes with overall aggregate of twenty (20).

Three of the six subjects must be core subjects (including English Language, Integrated Science & Mathematics) and three must be in History, Literature in English, French, Ghanaian Language (Akan, Ewe/Ga). Government and Christian or Islamic Religious Studies or African Traditional Religion. A good pass in Social Studies will be an advantage

MATURE CANDIDATES

Candidates applying for admission must be at least 30 years old by the 31st December of the year immediately preceding that of the application and must pass the

University’s Mature Students’ Exanimation and Interview.

French Department

Vision statement: 
To become a centre for teaching and research in the area of Francophone studies
Mission statement: 
To produce educators who are also able to function in other areas of public/professional life. To Develop in students’ adequate mastery of the French language and the application of this mastery to the study of Francophone Literature, Civilisation, Thought Systems, Francophone Secretarial, Banking and Commercial Practices, and generally effective bilingualism in French and English.
History: 
The Department of French is one of the eleven (11) departments in the Faculty of Arts created since the establishment of the University of Cape Coast in 1964.  It is located on the first floor of the first block in the new Faculty of Arts buildings. Since its inception, the department has been providing the French aspect of the training of: 1. Graduate teachers for second cycle institutions, and 2. Personnel for commerce, business and academia. The Department can boast of a distinguished record since 1964. It prides itself in being able to train about sixty percent of the full-time academic staff currently teaching in the department. The Department can also boast of one of the best-stocked departmental libraries in the University. It also has a well-equipped reading room with computers for M.Phil students and staff, a multimedia room with a satellite dish for Club activities and a mini-language laboratory.
Core Values: 
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College/Faculty/School/Department: 
Department of French

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