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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
