French
Program Learning Outcomes for the French BA program
- Recognize and appreciate key periods genres modes and techniques in French Literature.
- Describe contextualize and interpret French texts of major writers of literary movements in written and oral reports.
- Develop critical thinking by establishing connections between literary works and cultural and historical traditions.
- Apply critical insight from secondary sources to primary sources.
- Write expositive and interpretative essays on literary texts and their aesthetic cultural and historical contexts.
- Establish connections across historical periods and in the interdisciplinary framework of cultural and gender studies.
- Improve grammatical skills at the advanced level.
- Be able to write complex texts reflecting syntactic and morphologic skills at an intermediate level. Be able to distinguish genres and registers in written prose.
- Improve phonetics and diction skills based on standard practices in professionally-spoken advanced French.
- Be able to translate spoken and written English texts from a variety of genres and registers into the proper register in French.