6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 1023274ANR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
The lecture (HOC) focuses on the political, social, artistic and cultural history of France and on the basic principles for the analysis of novels, drama, song and poetry, illustrated by 19th- and 20th-century French texts.
For the practical part (SELF), the student prepares a cultural portfolio. This portfolio contains 4 papers, respectively on a French singer songwriter, a French artist, a French play writer of the 20th century, a French novel writer of the 20th century.
This course is taught in French.
A printed syllabus containing a synthesis of the lecture will be delivered to the students at the beginning of the academic year.
Guidelines will be provides for the papers.
The students are able to situate the most important events of the French political, social, artistic and cultural history.
The students are able to recognize, identify, explain, apply in French the specificity of a novel, a play, a song and a poem.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
SELF Practical Assignment determines 40% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Percentage evaluation:
Knowledge: 33%
Insight: 33%
Application: 33%
Information regarding evaluation
The final grade is composed based on the two following categories:
1. A Written Examination (60% of the final mark)
- A written examination consisting of main questions and additional questions.
- All the chapters of the syllabus will be investigated.
These questions are, of course, knowledge questions. But insight is also tested by asking for additional explanations (e.g. transposing into one's own words). As well as application, because not only examples are requested to confirm the acquired knowledge and insight, but also because the language proficiency (French) contributes to a large extent.
2. An Evaluation of the « Cultural dossier » (40% of the final mark)
- The 4 papers must all be delivered to obtain a mark for this part.
Additional information regarding evaluation
- Students must participate in both parts of the evaluation in order to obtain a pass mark for the whole course.
- Students have to succeed in both parts of the evaluation process to obtain a pass mark for the whole course.
- Students who fail to participate in both parts of the evaluation process automatically are marked as « absent ».
- Students can transfer to the next exam session the results of those parts of the evaluation process for which they have obtained a pass mark.
- This course unit is part of a process of joint evaluation by several lecturers French of the study programme. The stylistic dimension of one of the written presentations will be scored in the average of the course unit "Pratique du français I".
- The level of the French proficiency is the level that is determined by TALK for the first Bachelor in French.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-English (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Spanish-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Italian-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Frans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Engels (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Teaching in Languages: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: one language - TTK (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: one language (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: one language - after third lng (only offered in Dutch)