Learning Outcomes

• 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/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.