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French Language and Professional skills

College/Institution: CHLSJC

Department/School/Center: Dept of Foreign Languages, French Unit

Program title: BA Degree in French Language and Professional skills

Program duration (in years): Four for regular and Five for extension

Study Language: French

Credits and the equivalent ECTS: 240 ECTS

Mode of delivery: Regular and Extension

Program Objective

General Objectives – The Bachelor of Arts Degree in French language and professional skills offers a rigorous, integrated training in language and professional skills. It is concerned with the study of texts and their interpretation and meaning; their historical, social and cultural contexts, their transmission across time; and the relationship of individual works to the tradition.

Specific Objectives – the program aims:

  • To give intensive courses in the French language and increase students’ awareness of cultural knowledge and intercultural attitudes;
  • To train French language high-level manpower that satisfies the quality requirements of International Organizations, public or private official agencies;
  • To train students who are capable of planning and carrying out a professional work in French;
  • To enhance the use of multimedia tools such as computer in all its aspects, video and audio recording, publishing;
  • To enable students build confidence, autonomy in learning and stimulate creative thinking and critical capacities through reading, writing and speaking the French language;
  • To offer practical courses that seek to develop the students as effective professionals by providing them with knowledge and awareness of their future career environment;
  • To foster and enhance scholarly research.

Admission requirements – To major in French Language and Professional Skills, students are required to fulfill the following:

  • Successful completion of Preparatory Program (10+2);
  • High interest in the field;
  • Students who have no prior knowledge of French can be admitted into the first year;
  • Students who have prior knowledge in French Language and succeed in passing the DELF B2 can be admitted into the second year provided that they fulfill the University’s admission requirements;
  • Former students of Lycée Guebre Mariam who passed Baccalauréat Examination could be admitted into the second year of the BA Program in French Language and Professional Skills.
  • Consequently, these students who are allowed to be admitted in the second year of the Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Professional Skills will be exempted from the following courses: FlFr1011, FlFr1012, Flfr 1013, Flfr 1014, FlFr1021, FlFr1022, FlFr1023 and FlFr1024.

Graduation requirement: To graduate, students must have:

  • Taken a minimum of 240 ECTS;
  • A CGPA and MGPA of 2.00 and above.
  • No “F” grade in any course taken
  • At the end of their studies, students will have the necessary competencies to sit for the international French language examination DELF B2.

List of Modules/Courses

Major Area Courses

Language Skill Courses

Module
No		 Module Name ModuleCode ECTS List of Courses Co- Code ECTS
1 Basic French Skills FlFr-M1011 20 Introduction to French 1011 5
Basic French 1012 5
Fundamentals of French 1013 5
French phonetics 1014 5
2 Communicative French Skills FlFr-M1021 20 Communicative French 1021 5
Intermediate communicative French 1022 5
Advanced communicativeFrench 1023 5
Intercultural Communication 1024 5
3 Oral & Aural Skills FlFr-M2031 26 Oral Interaction 2031 5
French grammar in use 2032 7
Public Speaking 2033 7
Comprehension of Radio,Film & TV 2034 7
4 Writing Skills FlFr-M2041 29 Advanced French Grammar 2041 7
Stylistic and syntacticanalysis in Writing 2042 5
Written Production and Interaction 2043 7
Discourse Analysis and 2044 5
Composition Workshop 2045 5
5 Language Use and Meaning FlFr-M3051 28 Basic of Translation and Interpretation 3051 7
Comparative Grammar 3052 7
Intermediate Translation 3053 7
Advanced Translation 3054 7
6 Cultural Studies and Literature FlFr-M3061 32 French Cultural Studies 3061 5
Francophone CulturalStudies 3062 7
French Literature 3063 7
Francophone Literature 3064 8
Acting 3065 5
7 Research FlFr-M4091 25 Introduction to Research Methods 4091 5
Research Methods andReport Writing 4092 5
Seminar on SelectedTopics 4093 5
Senior Essay 4094 10
Total                                                                                                                                                                                      180

ECTS

 

Professional Courses

8 Public attachment and Tourism Skills FlFr-M4071 10 1.Business Communication FlFr 4071 5
  1. French For Tourism and Hotel Management
 FlFr4072 5
9 Didactic Skills FlFr-M4081 15
  1. The evolution of teaching methodologies
 FlFr4081 5
  1. Communicative approach in teaching French as a foreign language
 FlFr4082 5
  1. Language Testing
 FlFr4083 5
Total                                                                                                                                                                        25 ECTS

 

Practicum

10 Practicum FlFr-M4101 10 Teaching Practice FlFr4101 5
Work practice/Internship FlFr4102 5
Total                                                                                                                                                                  10 ECTS

 

 

Supportive Courses

11 Computing Skills CoSc-M1133 5 Introduction to Computer Application CoSc1133 5
Total                                                                                                                                                                        5 ECTS

 

General Education Courses

12 Civics & Ethics CESt-M1023 5 Civics and Ethics CESt1023 5
13 Introduction to Logic Phil-M1033 5 Introduction to Logic Phil1033 5
14 Basic English Skills EnLa-M1013 10 Communicative English Skills EnLa1011 5
Basic Writing Skills EnLa1012 5
Total                                                                                                                                                                  20ECTS