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FREN103 French Language Through Culture 1

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus C - Internet access required
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites None
Co-requisites FREN102
Restrictions FREN151
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Jennifer Hatte (jhatte@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit complements FREN102. It involves an introduction to the study of French culture through the study of a 20th-century French play, together with a selection of writings from France and other French-speaking countries.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

La Cantatrice chauve in Three Plays
ISBN: ARAD03
Ionesco, E. (eds H.F. Brookes and C.E. Fraenkel), UNE Reprint
Note: Available from the United Campus Bookshops, UNE
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Classiques pour debutants
ISBN: ARAD05
Comeau, R.F. and Bunting, M-F., UNE Reprint
Note: Available from the United Campus Bookshops, UNE
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1: 2 written tasks 40% 1000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1, 2, 3, 6
Final Examination 2 hrs 60%
Assessment Notes
No pre-written, notes, books or dictionaries of any kind permitted in examination room.
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1, 2, 3, 6

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. read selected French texts in the original;
  2. appreciate a key modern French play;
  3. appreciate short texts by a range of French and Francophone writers;
  4. answer context and comprehension questions in French;
  5. closely analyse in English or French a section of original French literary text.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
The unit develops French language and introduces French literature. This is assessed in the written tasks and the exam. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
Students will be expected to write on texts of aesthetic and intellectual complexity.This is assessed in the written tasks and the exam. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
The study of literature of a foreign culture will give understanding of and insight into such a society and culture. This is assessed in the written tasks and the exam. 		True True
4 Information Literacy
Students access the Discussion Board for queries and discussion. 		True
5 Life-Long Learning
The unit provides transferable skills in literature study, and encourages further language and literary study. 		True
6 Problem Solving
As literature depicts issues of historical/societal/philosophical complexity, its analysis demands problem solving skills of a high nature.These are assessed in the written tasks and the exam. 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
Through the study of literature, students are exposed to ethical and social issues. 		True
   

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