Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

This course examines the area of interpreting studies, including the definition of interpreting, the role of the interpreter, administrative matters, and ethical considerations. In addition, an overview will be given of the three modes of interpretation (sight, consecutive and simultaneous), as well as the different areas of interpretation, such as legal, medical, business, community and conference interpretation

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

This course is designed to introduce students to the translation of specialized texts and the use of certain CAT tools. Very technical documents covering various sectors will be chosen for translation and analysis. Students will learn to download and or subscribe to various platforms to access major CAT tools used by translators internationally. They will also be introduced to certain Machine Translation (MT) platforms and, where necessary, they will be taught to build, import and export term bases using various tools. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

This course is designed to deepen students’ knowledge in the area of professional translation. They will go beyond the translation of semi-specialized texts to the translation of specialised texts. Texts will be taken from various fields including law, business, environment, health, education, energy, climate change, construction, tourism and hospitality, etc., depending on the instructor’s preferences. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

This is also a three-credit long-vacation specially packaged intensive study in a French or Francophone university. In lieu of that, students can undertake a three-credit language immersion course at the University of Ghana. The Language Immersion II takes place during the long vacations between Levels 300 and 400. Students will be required to present a report that will be assessed. The host university will send a report detailing the performance of the student during the programme. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content
This course is a continuation of French for specific purposes III. However, unlike in the first semester, this part of the course focuses on the domains of commerce, accounting, and marketing. Students will thus not only be introduced to francophone systems of commerce, accounting and marketing, but also, they will be helped to some lexical items and constructions that are specific to the domains. More importantly, using an action-oriented approach, students will be put in real-life situations so as to prepare them for the job market. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content
This course will touch on French as it is used in the domain of banking and finance. Students will be introduced to francophone systems of banking and commerce. They will be exposed to some lexical items and constructions that are specific to the domain. Using an action-oriented approach, students will be put in real-life banking and finance situations and introduced to ways of manipulating the language required. The idea is to prepare students for the job market in banking and finance. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

This final phase of the course takes the practical approach further into training students to evaluate, describe, and prescribe teaching methods and outcomes based on the observation of French lessons in some basic and junior secondary schools. Students will present reports on their observations based on what they have learnt on best practices. Students will also be given the opportunity to teach a French class in some basic and secondary schools or handle a tutorial class as part of their experiential learning.

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

This course is a build-up of the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language I & II. It involves a more practical, hands-on approach in which students learn how to prepare lesson notes for the various components of the teaching of French as a Foreign Language. Students will be introduced to the use of real-life documents in addition to teaching manuals and how to exploit or make the most out of them for more effective teaching of the language. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

In this course, various aspects of the semantics and sociolinguistics of French will be taught. The part on semantics will introduce students to the basic notions in semantics. There shall be a focus not only on some lexical relations such as synonymy and antonymy but also, students will be introduced to the relationship between syntactic structure and meaning-making. The sociolinguistics aspect will deal with variation within the French language according to geography, time, and social position. Various issues such as multilingualism, language attrition etc. shall also be treated. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

In this course, various aspects of the morphology and aspects of the syntax of French will be taught. As such, the morpheme, affixes, suffixes etc. will be critically looked at. Derivational processes such as compounding, reduplication, conversion etc. will be discussed. Concerning syntax, the difference between syntactic categories and functions will be presented. Finally, the noun and verb phrase and the clause will be given critical attention. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

The course will provide a general survey of the life and works of a major author of African Francophone literature (not studied elsewhere in the syllabus). Students will explore the writer’s role in the African Francophone literary field. At least, two works produced by the author will be studied in detail, using tools such as actantial model, analytical grid of characters, narrative structure, narrative perspective, themes, style, setting and temporality. 

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

The beginning of the 21st Century is witnessing major new trends in French and Francophone literature. With the adoption of new categories such as postcolonial literature, world literature or littérature-monde and the growing interest in disciplines like sociocriticism, ecocriticism, or gender criticism, the writing and the reading of French and Francophone literature are evolving. Students will learn to update their visions of French and Francophone literature.

Credit Hours - 6

Course Content

This is a two-semester 6-credit course in French language, literature and culture to be undertaken in a university in France or a Francophone country. This will ordinarily be undertaken after completion of Level 300. Only students combining or majoring can take this course. FREN 460 will be credited to students together with the other level 400 courses.

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content
In this course, students will be taught the methodology of presenting texts orally to show that they have an overall understanding of these texts: their surface and deep structures, their message and tone. After the theoretical approach is taught, there will be the practical aspect of the course in which students will put into practice the methodology they have learned. Topics on national and global issues will be discussed in class or presented individually.

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content
In this course, students will be taught the methodology of studying a text by identifying the explicit and implicit ideas it depicts. Students will be taught the methodology of oral presentation of a text. Students will be exposed to main features of a text: structure, message and tone. Various degrees of connecteurs logiques will be treated in class to enable students to use them to structure their oral presentations and daily expression. Topics on national and global issues will be discussed in class and presented by students in class.

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content

This course is designed to give students extensive practice in critical reading and writing. Through regular assignments of varying lengths and complexity, they will study how to position themselves within ongoing conversations about issues important to educated readers. It is a course that revolves around thinking as well as producing more effective writing. Students will engage in processes of invention, drafting, revision, problem-solving, and editing as they produce a range of writing genres including narrative, exploratory writing, synthesis, analysis, and argument.

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content
This course focuses on deepening students’ ability to study and understand a written text.  It aims at teaching students reading skills and techniques to understand a text in order to derive its core message. Students will also be taught advanced techniques needed to summarize a text and comment on its themes by deriving arguments from the text. The theme of the text will evolve around sociocultural, religious and economic issues.

Credit Hours - 3

Course Content
FREN 450 is a year-long course. A dissertation of about 15,000 words will be written, under supervision, on an approved topic from French or Francophone Literature or thought. In lieu of a Long Essay, an original piece of creative writing in French in the form of a novel, short story, play, or a collection of thematically related poems may be presented. A contract provided by the College of Humanities of the University of Ghana which is signed by both the student and supervisor spells out deliverables, dates for submission and feedback.