Advanced French Communication

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

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.

An analytical approach to French phonology for graduate students, focusing on the mechanical production of sounds, nasal vowels, liaison, and prosody. Students move from individual phonemes to fluid sentence-level communication through articulatory awareness.

A graduate-level exploration of French syntax, focusing on double pronoun placement, the imperative, nominalization, complex relative pronouns, and techniques of emphasis (mise en relief) to achieve academic fluency.

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.

This advanced French grammar sequence for graduate students explores the nuanced application of the subjunctive mood as a rhetorical and semantic tool. Students move beyond basic rules to master mood selection in relative clauses, the stylistic 'ne explétif', temporal sequencing with the past subjunctive, and sophisticated rhetorical framing using conjunctions.

An advanced French grammar sequence for undergraduate students focused on the power of nominalization to create dense, formal, and concise academic writing. Students progress from morphological basics to complex syntactic transformations and academic abstract composition.

An advanced French grammar sequence focusing on the causative construction (Faire + Infinitive) and verbs of perception (Laisser, Voir, Entendre). Students will master the distinction between agency and causation, pronoun placement in complex structures, and the nuances of permission and perception.

A comprehensive exploration of hypothetical structures in French, moving from basic 'si' clauses to complex expressions of regret, media nuance, and formal conditions. Designed for undergraduate students to master the nuances of causality and abstract reasoning.

This advanced French sequence explores the sociolinguistic dimensions of grammar, focusing on how language shifts between 'langue populaire', 'langue standard', and 'langue soutenue'. Students develop the ability to navigate different social contexts by mastering register-specific grammatical structures, from slang reductions to formal inversions.

A comprehensive advanced French grammar sequence focusing on the mastery of double object pronouns and adverbial pronouns (y, en). Students progress from basic object identification to complex oral fluency in real-time communication.

A high school French 4 lesson exploring the vocabulary and cultural impact of urban art, including murals, graffiti, and public installations. Students will learn to describe techniques, materials, and the social messages behind street art.

A comprehensive framework for foreign language educators to guide students through deep linguistic and cultural analysis of film, focusing on visual storytelling and advanced listening strategies.

A comprehensive toolkit for foreign language teachers to bridge the gap between rote memorization and spontaneous oral communication through interactive activities and low-stakes scaffolding.