京都大学 京都大学

3648002 French Language and Literature

Numbering Code U-LET21 33648 SJ36 Year/Term 2022 ・ Second semester
Number of Credits 2 Course Type Seminar
Target Year Target Student
Language Japanese Day/Period Mon.2
Instructor name MURAKAMI YUJI (Graduate School of Letters Associate Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course This mandatory course for third-year students majoring in French Language and Literature focuses on improving students’ French reading comprehension skills. Students will learn French literature research methods by translating literary criticism texts into Japanese and summarizing them.
Course Goals * Acquire the methods of literary text analysis
* Be able to read studies on French literature written in intermediate French
Schedule and Contents This course provides an introduction to reading literary criticism texts, research books, and research papers. Students should read material on concepts, theories, or literary history that are important in literary study and understand the content by summarizing and translating them into Japanese. They should also learn how to read academic French. This course will help students understand the content of research literature written in French, which students need to reference while writing their undergraduate theses. Lessons will be carried out in accordance with the following schedule.
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Translating an excerpt from literary criticism texts into Japanese (1)
Week 3: Translating an excerpt from literary criticism texts into Japanese (2)
Week 4: Translating an excerpt from literary criticism texts into Japanese (3)
Week 5: Translating an excerpt from literary criticism texts into Japanese (4)
Week 6: Translating an excerpt from literary criticism texts into Japanese (5)
Week 7: Summarizing an excerpt from literary criticism texts (1)
Week 8: Summarizing an excerpt from literary criticism texts (2)
Week 9: Summarizing an excerpt from literary criticism texts (3)
Week 10: Summarizing an excerpt from literary criticism texts (4)
Week 11: Student presentations (1)
Week 12: Student presentations (2)
Week 13: Student presentations (3)
Week 14: Student presentations (4)
Week 15: Student presentations (5)
Evaluation Methods and Policy Evaluated by participation.
Course Requirements Intermediate level French language proficiency is required.
Study outside of Class (preparation and review) Since emphasis is placed on participation, everyone is required to prepare for the class by reading the material to be covered beforehand.
Textbooks Textbooks/References Handouts will be distributed.
References, etc. Introduced during class.
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