French (FREN) 402
Pensée et structure de l'anglais et du français (Revision 4)
Delivery Mode: Individualized study online.
Credits: 3
Area of Study: Reading course - Humanities
Prerequisite: FREN 401
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
FREN 402 is not available for challenge
Overview
Ce cours permettra à l'étudiant(e) de faire une étude comparative du français et de l'anglais. Il/elle fera l'étude des moyens dont on dispose pour passer d'une langue à l'autre, en particulier d'une pensée anglaise à une expression bien française.
This course offers a comparative study of French and English. Its main focus is the translation of English language structures into idiomatic French.
Outline
Unité 1: Entités/Elements of language
Unité 2: Espaces et Temps/Time and space
Unité 3: Problèmes de structure/Problems of structure
Unité 4: Structure et modalité/Structure and form
Unité 5: Notions de sémantique/Semantics
Evaluation
To receive credit for FREN 402, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the final examination. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:
| 5 Assignments (10% each) | Final Exam | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 50% | 50% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbook
J. L. Darbelnet. 1977. Pensée et structure, Deuxième édition. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons.
J. L. Darbelnet. 1977. Pensée et structure, Deuxième édition, Cahier d'exercices. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons.
Other Materials
The course materials also include three study guides and a student manual.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 4, July 20, 2006.
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Last updated by SAS 02/14/2013 12:26:01
