French University College Cork

Overview

Key facts

• to provide you with opportunities to further develop your skills in the study and the use of the French language

• to provide you with opportunities to extend and deepen your skills in the reading and discussion of texts

• to introduce you to work in specialised areas of French as a multidisciplinary subject

• to give you a sense of French culture in French-speaking countries around the world

• This course from University College Cork will enable you to:

• develop your language skills through extensive reading of materials in French

• comment analytically on a wide range of materials in French

• demonstrate an awareness of French and francophone culture and cultural production

• apply critical methodologies developed by French and francophone writers in thought and/or literature and/or linguistics and/or cultural studies

• apply research methodologies to prepare original, well-argued essays on a range of subjects relating to French language and culture.
• These skills of analysis and research and these forms of cultural and inter-cultural competencies are of critical importance to those wishing to pursue careers in education, journalism, government, European institutions, and executive administration in multinational companies.