Séminaire de lecture
- (Level 4 or above and registration in a FREN Plan) or permission of the Department.
- None.
one-way Exclusions
Contact the instructor or department for information.
The goal of this seminar is to enable students pursuing the final year of a Major in French Studies to apply the methods and theory acquired over the course of their program to a corpus of works not previously covered by their program. In a seminar framework, under the guidance of a professor, they will, as a group, present and discuss the fruits of their readings and the questions raised by these readings. In addition, at the end of each of the two terms, they will write an exam designed to measure their ability to consider, both broadly and deeply, the texts they have read, to synthesize their reflections in a theoretically coherent fashion, and to express their findings clearly and coherently.
Learning Outcomes
- Independently construct a collection of literary works raising pertinent questions on a given issue.
- Conduct independent research on a literary work.
- Orally communicate and defend a paper based on this research.
- Exercise critical thinking by discussing literary texts based on their research.
- Prepare and organize an academic conference.