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FREN406 Women in French Texts

Updated: 10 August 2011

Unit Information
Additional Information

Credit Points	6
Offering	Not offered in 2012
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	FREN302 or FREN350 or equivalent
Co-requisites	None
Restrictions	FREN306 or FREN390 or FREN490
Notes	offered in odd numbered years
Combined Units	FREN306 - Women in French Texts
Coordinator(s)	To be advised
Unit Description	The theme of the unit is the portrayal of women in three widely differing texts.
Materials	Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer	Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Assessment

Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

understand and appreciate at an advanced level a sample of important literary works, written in French or their equivalent, in other areas of French or Francophone culture and civilisation;
analyse their content at a more sophisticated level than is required for the 300-level unit; and
relate this to the context in which the works were conceived.

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline Students will demonstrate a command of some of the main French literary texts that focus on women.
2	Communication Skills Students will be expected to write on texts of aesthetic and intellectual complexity.
3	Global Perspectives The study of literature of a foreign culture will give understanding and insight into such a society and culture.
4	Information Literacy Students are encouraged to access relevant web pages.
5	Life-Long Learning The appreciation of literature encourages further reading and feeds into later literary studies.
6	Problem Solving As literature depicts issues of historical/societal/philosophical complexity, its analysis demands problem-solving skills of a high nature.
7	Social Responsibility Students are exposed to and consider ethical questions raised in the texts.