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French IV: Honours Language I (FREN40005)
HonoursPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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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: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into or selection of one of the following:
- French Studies specialisation (formal) in the BH-ARTS Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours)
- Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) - French informal specialisation in the GDA-ARTS Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced)
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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A summary of an argumentative text (in class)
| Week 6 | 5% |
Written test (explication de texte) (in class)
| Week 10 | 15% |
An oral presentation
| From Week 8 to Week 10 | 20% |
A subsequent write up in essay form
| Week 12 | 40% |
On line blog (5 entries, weeks 2,4,6,8,10)
| From Week 2 to Week 10 | 20% |
Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Bertrand Bourgeois Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours: 1 x 2-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Specialisation (formal) French Specialisation (formal) French Studies - 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.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024