Course Descriptions

This course will focus on the rules of grammar and the use of expressions and writing strategies that will improve the quality of your written work in French. You will learn to prepare and perfect bibliographies, summaries, reviews and essays, and write a biography, a review of a play, or a creative work to be sent to l’Eau vive, the Francophone newspaper, or its Horizon-Chronique littéraire, or to À ciel ouvert, the Francophone online magazine for Western and Northern Canada. The goal of this course is to perfect your grammar and editing skills and allow you to write better essays as well as conference papers in French.

Note: Students with credit for FREN 310 may not have credit for this course.

Students will explore the landscape of artificial intelligence and machine-generated translation. Using a variety of online translation platforms on a series of (French language) literary texts, students will identify the strengths and weaknesses of each, and think critically on the rapidly-evolving role of the human translator.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): FREN 213 or FREN 214.
Note: Students with credit for FREN 314 will not receive credit for this course.

In a given year, a special topic in French literature of the 17th century will be studied, e.g., the theatre of Corneille and Racine; the novel; secondary genres (fables, sermons, maxims, portraits, correspondence).

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate studies in French.
Note: Students may have credit for only one of FREN 317 or FREN 817.

This course will focus on a special topic in French literature of the 19th century, for example, the second disillusioned romantic generation (Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarme), which idolizes art as the antithesis of money.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate studies in French.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

In this course, a particular aspect of 20th-century literature will be studied in depth, for example, the absurd and engagement, 20th-century attempts at tragedy, Dada and Surrealism, and the Nouveau-roman.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate studies in French.

This course will focus on a special topic in the Quebec novel, for example, women writers, the social novel, the nouveau-roman, etc.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): FREN 343 and admission to graduate studies in French.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

This course will present a survey of historical, political and cultural events leading to the creation and development of anti-establishment Québécois theatre in the period from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. A study of the works of renowned Quebec playwrights, based on an analytical approach, will illustrate that period.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s):Admission to graduate studies in French.

This course will examine the representative 20th century French writers of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The objectives are to examine the cultural and historical background behind the different genres, demonstrate a critical understanding of and appreciation for these works and identify similarities and common culturally specific themes between works.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to French graduate studies within the College of Graduate Studies and Research. Students must have a Four-year or Honours degree in French or equivalent.

This course is designed to offer students an insight into the culture of the Maghreb, through the study of some of its most prominent literary figures and film directors. This course will also provide students with important historical information regarding Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

This course is designed to introduce students to the connections between cinema and society. We will more particularly observe how cinema has been documenting some of the major societal events that have shaped contemporary French society since the 1990s.

Note: Students with credit for FREN 861 cannot receive credit for this course.

This course will introduce students to the topic of youth in French and Francophone cinema. Films will be analyzed from a sociohistorical and aesthetic perspective, as both the reflection in the history of French and Francophone societies and as an artistic mode of expression.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Offered occasionally in special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.

Weekly hours: 3 Reading hours
Restriction(s): Admission to graduate studies in French.

Offered occasionally in special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.

Weekly hours: 3 Reading hours
Restriction(s): Admission to graduate studies in French.