Fall 2011 Graduate Courses
Stylistics and Semantics of Written French (4 points)
Prof. Michelle Boularès & Prof. François Thuillier
Ce cours propose un entraînement intensif à l'écrit. Il permet aux étudiants d'enrichir et d'affiner leur compétence écrite à travers un approfondissement de la grammaire et des relations logiques, envisagées d'un point de vue sémantique et stylistique.
Required for M.A. degree in Teaching French as a Foreign language
FREN-GA.9004001
Advanced Workshop in Contemporary French (4 points)
Profs. Patrick Guédon & Christelle Taraud
Developing French language proficiency in oral and written expression, and enhancing knowledge of French and its rhetorical structures through selected reading of contemporary social and cultural analysis. This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop and maintain their oral and written skills in French, focusing on the improvement of both fluency and accuracy through the study of contemporary France and the study of texts of French intellectuals (E. Badinter, P. Bourdieu, B.H. Levy, E. Orsenna, L. Porcher). This course will also focus on contemporary culture / civilization from a language teacher's perspective.
Required for M.A. degree in Teaching French as a Foreign language
FREN-GA.9012001
Applied Methodology to Teaching French as a Foreign Language – I (3/4 points)
Prof. Michelle Boularès
Course contents include: guiding principles and methodology in a variety of approaches to teaching of foreign languages, specifically in developing auditory comprehension and oral production, teaching, reading and writing with specific emphasis on interactive methodology. Also included is the impact of socio-economic and educational background on language development, a reflection on foreign language acquisition as well as a critical reading of various approaches. This course will be followed by 25 hours of classroom observation and practice.
Required for M.A. degree in Teaching French as a Foreign language
Students in the M.A. in TFFL program should register under E29.2069.099 (3 points).
All other students interested in taking this course should register under G45.9012.001.
FREN-GA.9067001
Histoire de la France contemporaine, 19e et 20e siècle (4 points)
Prof. Dominique Kalifa
Cet enseignement se donnerait pour objectif d’apporter aux étudiants un cadre chronologique pour leur permettre de comprendre la nature et la portée des grands tournants de l’histoire française depuis 1789. Après une mise au point rapide sur l’identification des étapes de l’histoire française, sur l’identité des régimes et des institutions, l’enseignement serait abordé de manière thématique à partir des grands débats ouverts par l’historiographie depuis une vingtaine d’années. L’enseignement sera donc l’occasion de mesurer la mutation des approches historiographique, de l’histoire sociale marxisante, à l’histoire des représentations alimentée par le « linguistic turn » et la « gender history. »
Required for M.A. degree in French Language and Civilization
FREN-GA.9101001
Textual Analysis I (4 points)
Prof. Gérard Gengembre
Ce cours a pour but de montrer l'efficacité et les limites de plusieurs approches critiques classiques et contemporaines, la complémentarité des grilles de lecture, l'utilisation le plus
souvent métaphorique des systèmes de référence dans leur application au texte littéraire.
Required for M.A. degree in French Literature
FREN-GA.9532001
Les Lumières et le Postmoderne (4 points)
Prof. Lucien Nouis
Les philosophes de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle n’ont pas cessé d’interroger les Lumières,
FREN-GA.9891001
Independent Guided Reading (1 point)
Prof. Michelle Boularès & Prof. François Thuillier
Required for M.A. degree in Teaching French as a Foreign language
Research Seminars
Students are encouraged to participate in the on-going research seminars organized in partnership between NYU in France and the University of Paris. Students may receive credit after discussion and approval with the program directors; work to be determined in consultation with the professor. The following seminars are strongly recommended:
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