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FREN205 French Language Through Culture 1

Updated: 04 January 2013
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Trimester 1 Off Campus
Armidale Trimester 1 On Campus
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 FREN201 or equivalent level of knowledge
Restrictions FREN103 or FREN151
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) To be advised
Unit Description

This unit is 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. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.

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: Trimester 1 , 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: Trimester 1 , 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: Written tasks 40% 2000
Assessment Notes
Short exercises in French (each 100-250 words, total 1000 words) and a 1000 word essay in English.
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1, 2, 3, 6
Final Examination 2 hrs 60% 2000
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. demonstrate an appreciation of a key modern French play;
  3. demonstrate an appreciation of short texts by a range of French and Francophone writers;
  4. write short passages of literary analysis in French; and
  5. closely analyse in English or French sections 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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