Department of French
Erasmus and Visiting Students 2015-2016
Erasmus and Visiting student coordinator:
Dr James Hanrahan, room 4107, Arts Building
Email: hanrahaj@tcd.ie
Office hours: Wednesdays, 10-11am and 2-3pm. Email for an appointment outside these times.
How to register for modules in the Department:
1. Students should first contact the relevant lecturer requesting permission to take a module.
2. If permission is granted, students should go to Mary or Sinéad in the French dept. office and ask to
be put in a class group.
3. Students taking modules in the French department go to Dr James Hanrahan's office during his
office hours to have their module registration form signed.
4. Students of Orléans, Paris 3, Bordeaux Montaigne and Lyon 2 should go to Dr James Hanrahan's
office during his office hours to have their learning agreement and any other Erasmus
documentation signed.
Modules open to full-year Erasmus and Visiting students:
Senior Freshman
FR2008 Oral and Written French (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 3 hours p.w.
Content: B1 level course on French grammar and expression, written and oral
Assessment: 8 continuous assessment exercises; 1 x oral exam; 2 x 3-hour end of year exams
Contact: Dr James Hanrahan
FR2016 Literature (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Review course of French literature: Du Bellay, Molière, Corneille, Flaubert, Sarraute
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Hannes Opelz
FR2018 Ideas into Politics (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Introduction to the history of ideas in France from the Renaissance to the 20th century
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Hannes Opelz
FR2021 Linguistics (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Introduction to the varieties of the French language
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Rachel Hoare
Junior Sophister
FR3006 Written Language Skills (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Résumé and Translation (French to English)
Assessment: 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
1
Contact: Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey
FR3027 Love and Desire in the Renaissance (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: The representation of love and desire in a number of key renaissance texts
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey
FR3029 Républiques, guerres et passions politiques: France since 1945 (5 ECTS, MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Political history of France since WW2
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Edward Arnold
FR3031 Errances narratives: 18th-century French philosophical fiction (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Contes philosophiques of Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr James Hanrahan
FR3034 Literature at the Dawn of Theory (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: 20th-century literary theory
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Hannes Opelz
FR3035 Language, Society and Identity in the French-speaking world (5 ECTS, MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: French sociolinguistics
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Rachel Hoare
FR3036 Madness and Poetry (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: The representation of madness in 20th-century French poetry
Assessment: 1 term essay
Dr Alex Lukes
Senior Sophister
FR4032 Written Language (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Résumé and Translation (French to English and English to French)
Assessment: 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Rachel Hoare
FR4058 Business Translation (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hour p.w. for first 6 weeks of term
Content: Translation of business-related texts (English to French and French to English)
A maximum of two Erasmus/Visiting students will be accepted on FR4058 Business Translation
Assessment: 1 x 2-hour end of MT exam; 1 x 2-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr James Hanrahan
FR4049 La Belle Époque; Le Surréalisme (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content:
MT: French fascism and extreme right politics from 1870-1914
HT: Surrealism in 20th c. France
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Edward Arnold and Dr Alex Lukes
2
FR4048 French Cinema (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Study work of some of the major French film makers/foreign directors working in French of
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Assessment: 1 x term essay; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey
Modules open to one-term Erasmus and Visiting students
Senior Freshman
FR2003 Oral and Written French (5 ECTS, MT) 3 hours p.w.
Content: B1 level course on French grammar and expression, written and oral
Assessment: 4 continuous assessment exercises; 1 x oral exam
Contact: Dr James Hanrahan
FR2011 Oral and Written French (5 ECTS, HT) 3 hours p.w.
Content: B1 level course on French grammar and expression, written and oral
Assessment: 4 continuous assessment exercises; 1 x oral exam; 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
(Language Paper 1)
Contact: Dr James Hanrahan
FR2016 Literature (5 ECTS, MT; 5 ECTS HT) 2 hours p.w.
MT: Early Modern French literature: Du Bellay, Molière, Corneille
HT: Flaubert, Sarraute, Baudelaire
Assessment:
MT: 1 x term essay
HT: 1 x term essay and 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Hannes Opelz
FR2018 Ideas into Politics (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Introduction to the history of ideas in France from the Renaissance to the 20th century
Assessment:
MT: 1 x term essay
HT: 1 x term essay and 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Hannes Opelz
FR2021 Linguistics (10 ECTS, MT and HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Introduction to the varieties of the French language
Assessment:
MT: 1 x term essay
HT: 1 x term essay and 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Rachel Hoare
Junior Sophister
FR3027 Love and Desire in the Renaissance (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: The representation of love and desire in a number of key renaissance texts
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey
FR3029 Républiques, guerres et passions politiques: France since 1945 (5 ECTS, MT) 2 hours p.w.
3
Content: Political history of France since WW2
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Edward Arnold
FR3031 Errances narratives: 18th-century French philosophical fiction (5 ECTS, MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: Contes philosophiques of Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot
Assessment: 1 term essay
Dr James Hanrahan
FR3020 Literature as Theory/Blanchot and Bataille (5 ECTS, MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: 20th-century literary theory
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Hannes Opelz
FR3035 Language, Society and Identity in the French-speaking world (5 ECTS, MT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: French sociolinguistics
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Rachel Hoare
FR3036 Madness and Poetry (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hours p.w.
Content: The representation of madness in 20th-century French poetry
Assessment: 1 term essay
Contact: Dr Alex Lukes
Senior Sophister
FR4044 Written Language (5 ECTS, MT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Résumé and Translation (French to English and English to French)
Assessment: Continuous assessment exercises
Contact: Dr Rachel Hoare
FR4045 Written Language (5 ECTS, HT) 1 hour p.w.
Content: Résumé and Translation French to English
Assessment: 1 x 3-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr Rachel Hoare
FR4058 Business Translation (5 ECTS, HT) 2 hour p.w. for first 6 weeks of HT
Content: Translation of business-related texts (English to French and French to English)
A maximum of two Erasmus/Visiting students will be accepted on FR4058 Business Translation
Assessment: 1 x 2-hour end of MT exam; 1 x 2-hour end of year exam
Contact: Dr James Hanrahan
4