French Civilisation
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Content
Objective
To learn various sujbects on French civilization, from the Middle Ages to nowadays : history, literature, architecture, painting, music, society problems.
Course Content
Middle Ages : the building of a civilization, the epopee, courtly love
16th century : the Renaissance, the humanism, the religious wars
History of the french langage : from the latin to the classic french
17th : from the barocco movement to classicism
18th : the philosophers of the Lumières, the birth of the French Republic
19th : Napoléon, the "mal du siècle" and the birth of romanticism (literature, paintings), the Industrial revolution and realism (literature, paintings, cinema)
20th : the influence of world wars upon literature (absurd, surealism) and the political and litterary francophony
Course Learning Outcomes
- to analyse texts
- to analyse paintings, buildings (churches, palaces, gardens... which represent a part of each century's achievement)
- to analyse documents such as manuscripts
Teaching and Learning Methods
Magistral course, based upon texts and documents (photos, videos, paintings) and comparison of documents.
Tests are provided after each century : questions of knowledges and reflexion.
Assessment System
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 0 | 0 |
| Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 |
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 |
Relation of Proficiency
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Acquire competence in written French C1 | |||||
| 2 | Acquisition of speaking proficiency in French at level C1 | |||||
| 3 | Being able to translate from French to Turkish at all levels of language. | |||||
| 4 | Being able to translate from Turkish to French at all levels of language. | |||||
| 5 | Being able to analyze texts of various kinds and levels. | |||||
| 6 | Being able to make cross-cultural studies. | |||||
| 7 | To teach French literature. | |||||
| 8 | Being able to descriptions of languages starting with the contemporary linguistic theories. | |||||
| 9 | Being able to teach French as a foreign language. | |||||
| 10 | Having acquired the Spanish language and literature. | |||||