FRENCH
cod. 01631

Academic year 2019/20
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
- Fabienne WINKLER
Academic discipline
Lingua e traduzione - lingua francese (L-LIN/04)
Field
Linguistico
Type of training activity
Characterising
36 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

The goal of this class is to give you the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of the French language and the cultures for which it is a vehicle, helping you to improve your ability to understand what you hear, to communicate orally, to read any written support – articles, essays, papers etc. ., and to express yourself in writing on many different social and geopolitical topics.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

We will work on material (reportages; articles; essais) within Political Sciences thematic contexts such as:

Les Institutions de la France
Voir : G. Bernard, B. De Gunten, A. Martin, M. Niogret, Paris 2009, ed. Nathan.
Ou : sites web officiels –
http://www.elysee.fr/la-presidence/les-institutions-de-la-cinquieme-republique/
http://www.elysee.fr/la-presidence/les-textes-fondateurs/

La Francophonie

http://www.francophonie.org/
http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/francophonie/francophonieacc.htm


La Géopolitique:

l’actualité géopolitique

La migration humaine

la notion de frontières

Les droits de l’Homme

L’eurosceptiscisme


La laicité

Le cinéma et les droits de l’homme; l’immigration, etc.

Full programme

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Bibliography

There is no book required.
Material will be specifically chosen for this course and provided in class


Recommended Resources - Sites and live material chosen especially for the course such as:



www.tv5.org;
www.artejournal.fr
www.lemonde.fr; www.lemonde-diplomatique.fr;
www.lexpress.fr;
www.libération.fr;
www.lenouvelobservateur.fr;
www.lefigaro.fr;
www.lepoint.fr;
www.courrierinternational.fr;
www.france2.fr. Etc. ...



http://www.elysee.fr/la-presidence/les-institutions-de-la-cinquieme-republique/
http://www.elysee.fr/la-presidence/les-textes-fondateurs/

http://www.francophonie.org/
http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/francophonie/francophonieacc.htm

Dictionnaire monolingue

Grammaire de support

« Les Institutions de la France » - G. Bernard, B. De Gunten, A.Martin, M.Niogret, Paris 2009, casa ed. Nathan

«Lexique de Science Politique» - vie et institutions politiques – Paris, 2011 II edizione casa ed. Dalloz.

and recommended reading:

“Refaire Société” – La République des Idées – Pierre Rosanvallon, Paris, 2011, casa ed. Seuil.

Teaching methods

This course focuses on developing communicative and cultural competencies that is on developing your listening comprehension, written and oral skills in French:
- talking about general and specific social, cultural and geopolitical topics;
- reading articles and essays on specific social, cultural and geopolitical topics
- listening to reportages on specific social, cultural and geopolitical topics
- presenting (written and oral) on one of the arguments you’ve talked and read about.

We will be working with only current, live, audio-visual material (reportages, conférences, débats).

Assessment methods and criteria

Grading:

For the students who will take the class, grading will be based on:
a)strong participation in class
b)written and oral presentation - “Essay” and “Exposé” will be on one of the topics studied in class
- the "exposé" will have to be presented to the class in a debate format

It is required for the students who didn’t take the class to contact Prof. F Winkler per email or su Teams prior to the exam.

Grading will be based on:

a) A written essay on a political sciences and internationonal relations topic chosen ahead of time with Prof. Winkler.
The essay will have to be ready for the day of the examination in Word doc. (500 word minimum)

b) An oral production with a listening comprehension on a geopolitical topic followed by a discussion on that specific topic.

Other information

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