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FR10130

Academic Year 2024/2025

French Fictions (FR10130)

Subject:
French
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
Languages, Cultures & Linguis
Level:
1 (Introductory)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Assoc Professor Emer O'Beirne
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module in French Literature focuses on the close reading and analysis of short literary texts in French. Its aim is to refine students' skills of (1) reading, with a critical focus, works by major French writers and (2) producing an analysis of short extracts from those longer texts studied. Students will learn to grasp not only literal but literary meaning and acquire a sense of the distance between the two.

Reading literature is a key way to develop language skills, since it involves deciphering complex structures.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:


If you participate assiduously in this module, attending both lectures and weekly tutorials, you should, on its completion, be able (1) to understand, describe, analyse, and discuss the interplay of language, form, and meaning within literary narrative texts in French; (2) to write a clearly structured critical analysis of a given passage from a longer work you have studied; (3) to show significant broadening of your command of French idiom, vocabulary and syntax through having paid close and detailed attention to a sizeable corpus of high-quality writing in French.

Indicative Module Content:

A weekly lecture and tutorial, the former demonstrating and the latter practising in a workshop setting how to read literary prose critically and how to write an analysis of an extract from a longer work you have read.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

48

Autonomous Student Learning

50

Lectures

12

Tutorial

12

Total

122


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
One weekly lecture and one weekly tutorial/workshop. Weekly critical reading tasks to prepare for writing a critical analysis.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

Students taking this module should have a Leaving Certificate H5 equivalent.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Equivalents:
Reading French Prose (FR10080)


 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): 45-minute in-class test in Week 7 lecture hour. Week 7 Graded No
35
No
Exam (In-person): 2-hour end-of-term examination End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
Graded No
65
No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Class test feedback provided individually in tutor's written comments on returned work and also globally in final lecture.

Gratton, J. & LeJuez, B., Modern French Short Fiction (Manchester: Manchester University Press). Available from International Books, South Frederick St., Dublin 2

Name Role
Ms Ariane Goudeau Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Assoc Professor Douglas Smith Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Mon 13:00 - 13:50
Spring Seminar Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Tues 10:00 - 10:50
Spring Seminar Offering 2 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 16:00 - 16:50
Spring Seminar Offering 3 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 10:00 - 10:50
Spring Seminar Offering 4 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Tues 12:00 - 12:50
Spring Seminar Offering 6 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 13:00 - 13:50