Reading French Texts (FREN0006)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Teaching department: School of European Languages, Culture and Society
Credit value: 15

Restrictions: This is a compulsory core module for all first-year students on a degree with French (post-A level). Language pre-requisites apply to this module. Students not already studying at post A-level in the language may not be eligible and must seek approval prior to registering. Please contact the email address provided. Available to Affiliates subject to space.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

This is a compulsory core module for all first-year students on a degree with French. The aim of this module is to introduce students to different literary genres of writing in French (prose narrative, theatre, poetry) through the study of six representative works or selections of texts drawn from different periods of French literature, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and to equip students with the analytical skills they will need in subsequent years to study texts in greater depth.

A list of prescribed texts and editions for the academic year 2021-2022 will be circulated to prospective first-year undergraduates before the summer. Texts studied in recent years have included Marie de France鈥檚 Lais (12th century); Marguerite de Navarre鈥檚 尝鈥橦别辫迟补尘茅谤辞苍 (1559); Moli猫re鈥檚 尝鈥橝惫补谤别 (1668); Denis Diderot鈥檚 厂耻辫辫濒茅尘别苍迟 au Voyage de Bougainville (1796); selections of nineteenth-century sonnets; Eug猫ne Ionesco鈥檚 La Cantatrice chauve (1950).

Students will attend a series of lectures (13 hours over two terms) and small-group seminars (14 hours over two terms) delivered by various members of the French Department.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Terms 1 and 2 听听听 Undergraduate (FHEQ Level 4)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 100% Fixed-time remote activity
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 71
Module leader: Professor Mairead Hanrahan
Who to contact for more information: m.hanrahan@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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