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Advanced Translation

This course lays emphasis on the theory and techniques of translation. It studies and analyses the cultural, temporal and spatial origins of the source texts.

It studies the various levels/types of translation: communicative and semantic translations, the importance and limits of context in translation, punctuation and transcription.

For the practicum: A close study and translation of a variety of texts - literary, cultural, administrative, commercial, political, philosophical is emphasized.

Course Code: 
FRE 415
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Selected Literary Texts

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.

Course Code: 
FRE 419
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Advanced French Linguistics

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.

Course Code: 
FRE 421
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Language Structure and Usage (Written)

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.

Course Code: 
FRE 104
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
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French

Basic French Composition

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.

Course Code: 
FRE 208
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
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French

Introductory Secretarial Expression

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.

Course Code: 
FRE 210
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Francophone African and French Literature

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.

Course Code: 
FRE 212
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

French Classical and Enlightenment Literature

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.

 

Course Code: 
FRE 314
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

Advanced Secretarial Expression

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.

 

Course Code: 
FRE 316
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
French

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