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French IV: Honours Language I (FREN40005)
HonoursPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 1
Overview
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This subject is intended primarily to foster students' writing skills, with a particular focus on academic writing. Students will analyse a range of academic texts and learn to identify and use the rhetorical features inherent to French academic discourses. In each text they will identify features of large-scale organisation, stylistic and rhetorical procedures and unfamiliar lexical items. They will also acquire an in-depth understanding of appropriate use of connectors and other rhetorical devices to (1) achieve meaning in a complex argumentative texts and (2) present and develop their own arguments in a clear, coherent and convincing fashion in both oral and written forms. Aspects of French grammar will be explored in context as difficulties occur. Although students undertaking thesis writing in French will find this subject particularly useful, students interested in the advanced mastery of French in both oral and written forms will find this subject rewarding.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should:
- have enhanced oral-aural communication skills required in normal and professional life, in particular for oral presentations (exposes, interviews, debates, etc.) by learning appropriate strategies and operating at various levels of formality;
- have enhanced their pronunciation, in particular acquisition of native-like patterns of delivery;
- have enhanced their ability to write and translate (French-English, English-French) texts of various length, in different registers (in particular French academic writing);
- have enhanced their mastery of a wide range of vocabulary related to the themes and genres studied in class;
- have enhanced their ability to analyse, discuss and use complex grammatical and discourse structures at sentence and text level.
Generic skills
At the completion of this subject, students should:
- have fostered linguistic competence, have an ability to analyse, discuss and use complex grammatical and discourse structures at sentence and text level.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- A 250 word summary of an argumentative text 5% (in class; due in week 6)
- Written test (explication de texte) equivalent to 750 words 15% (in class; due in week 10)
- An oral presentation equivalent to 1000 words 20% (week 8 to 10)
- A subsequent 2000 word write up in essay form 40% (week 12)
- On line blog equivalent to 1000 words 20% (5 entries, weeks 2,4,6,8,10)
Hurdle Requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.
Note: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day and in-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Veronique Duche Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours: 1 x 2-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
Only students who are admitted to the Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) or fourth-year honours in French may enrol in this subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Informal specialisation PD-ARTS French Informal specialisation Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) - French Informal specialisation Graduate Certificate in Arts (Advanced) - French Specialisation (formal) French Informal specialisation French Specialisation (formal) French - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 3 November 2022