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FREN 295 - Atelier avancé de langue, littérature et culture


Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Spring



Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A third-year topics or advanced grammar workshop. Recent offerings include: Les dossiers de la presse; Regards sur la ville. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Spring 2015 topic:

FREN 295: Translation and Improvisation (4). This course focuses on developing translation skills from French into English and from English into French as well as skills for simultaneous translation and bilingual improvisation It relies on literary texts as well as texts from other areas of knowledge such as philosophy or from pop culture and journalism. It is informed by various theories of translation as well as techniques of improvisation used in theater and performance. Radulescu. Spring 2015.

Fall 2014 topic:

FREN 295: Atelier avancé de langue, littérature et culture: Regards sur la ville (3). Prerequisites: FREN 162, 164,  or equivalent. A study of the ways the city is represented through texts, literary or not, from various periods. Genres include poetry, novel and short story, maps, paintings, ads, songs, films and comic strips. Readings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills. (HL) Frégnac-Clave.





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