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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
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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
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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
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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
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French

Intermediate General Linguistics

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.

 

Course Code: 
FRE 318
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
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French

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
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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

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