Advanced French Reading

A unit exploring the intersection of art, culture, and society in the French-speaking world, focusing on aesthetic judgment and historical context.

A comprehensive unit for advanced French students focused on recognizing and analyzing literary tenses (Passé Simple and Passé Antérieur) to understand narrative pacing and linguistic register in classic literature.

This sequence equips graduate students with high-efficiency strategies for reading and synthesizing academic French research. Students progress from rapid scanning techniques to deep syntactical analysis and precise translation of abstract theoretical concepts.

An advanced French literature sequence for graduate students, exploring the stylistic and philosophical depths of Francophone authors from Camus to Djebar. Students analyze the 'passé simple', 'écriture blanche', and themes of post-colonialism and Negritude to master literary interpretation in French.

This sequence immerses graduate students in the landscape of contemporary French journalism, focusing on current events and social debates. Students move from identifying the structural components of news articles to analyzing complex opinion pieces and synthesizing multiple perspectives on sensitive topics like secularism.

This advanced sequence explores the architecture of literary French, focusing on the passé simple, imparfait du subjonctif, and formal syntactic structures. Students move from morphological recognition to active stylistic analysis and translation, culminating in the ability to manipulate high-register prose.