For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRE3020 | French Literature and Mythology | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course allows students to have general perspectives about how the french literature has been developed and influenced by the Mythology | |||||||||
| FRE3023 | Topics in French Society and Culture . | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| Contemporary French society from a historical-cultural perspective and within a European and global context: the weight of a centralized state, the work sphere and unionization, the educational system, social life and the evolution of family. | |||||||||
| FRE3024 | Literary Topics in France | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| Introduction to the scope and variety of French literature through the analysis of significant works and currents. Lectures, discussions, and close textual analysis. Some of the authors considered include: Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Beaudelaire, Zola, Rimbaud, Breton, Colette, Proust, Camus, Duras. | |||||||||
| FRE3027 | Understanding French Popular Culture | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | English | Yes | |
| Cinema is a popular art in France. The popular culture is expressed in films. We will study films, comedies or thrillers, realistic or fantasies that talk us about French popular culture. | |||||||||
| FRE3028 | The Regional Culture of France | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| The Regional Culture of France | |||||||||
| FRE3030 | Society and Culture in French-speaking Territories | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| This course is designed to understand the region of French generally by reading books about French society and culture watching videotapes and movies about Fre-nch social phenomena. | |||||||||
| FRE3034 | French aesthetics | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | English | Yes | |
| We will study French chansons and music in films. Musical comedies : jazz and pop and rock and any modern style of music. | |||||||||
| FRE3035 | French conversation 2a | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims at developing all communication skills, emphasizing listening and speaking abilities. Students will learn to communicate and express themselves on various society and world issues (express cause and consequences, problems and solutions, various points of view), together with improving linguistic, vocabulary and grammar skills. They will work in pairs or small groups as often as possible. | |||||||||
| FRE3036 | French conversation 2b | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims at developing all communication skills, emphasizing listening and speaking abilities. Students will learn to communicate and express themselves on various society and world issues (build an argumentation, express hypothesis, purposes, comparisons), together with improving linguistic, vocabulary and grammar skills. They will work in pairs or small groups as often as possible. | |||||||||
| FRE3037 | Preparation for DELF B1 | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | French | Yes | |
| This course aims at developing all communication skills needed for the test: listening, speaking, reading and writing. We will therefore practice role plays, short presentations and debating. Various topics will be reviewed in order to improve vocabulary, and become able to talk and write on these topics (education, culture, health, environment, social issues, etc.). If some students wish, we will also prepare DELF B2. | |||||||||
| FRE3039 | French literature and cultural content | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| This course deals with French literary works from the middle ages to the present and their adaptation into different media forms such as film, advertisement, TV series, architecture, city planning, music and practical fine art. The two central topics include the intertextuality between literary works and adaptations, and the cultural values of adaptation. The examination of each work will entail issues such as: the ways in which a literary text is transposed into a different textual form in terms of themes, historical contexts and styles; the ways in which the cultural value of a literary work is multiplied through adaptation. | |||||||||
| FRE3040 | French culture and Gender | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| This course focuses on approaching to French culture as whole (French movies, French art, French literature and such) from gender-inspired themes. The course will primarily observe various aspects of sexuality and love in French culture, and then make critique on the observed points from the standpoint of gender. Points to be discussed: what are the modalities that French culture has employed in expressing love and sexuality? What patriarchal property could be found in the French culture, and does a cultural feminism exist? The course will attempt to answer such questions through a historical contemplation on French culture and through various theories of feminism. | |||||||||
| FRE3041 | Reading French Society through Advertising | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| In this course, we aim to understand French society and culture through reading advertisements. We will read a range of texts relating to semiotics, linguistics, cultural studies and media studies to explore key approaches to analysing advertising. This will allow for critical examination of advertisements in terms of how they represent and contribute to shaping various aspects of French society and culture, particularly regarding issues such as history, national identity, politics, art, gender, food and globalisation. | |||||||||
| FRE3042 | French Performing arts | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | Korean | Yes | ||
| In this course, we will treat French opera and musical theatre through visual media of important works. Initially, we examine the birth of the French opera, its evolution and its specificity. Also we approach how the opéra comique and the operetta play a considerable part in the birth of musical theatre. In the second time, after having considered the history of musical theatre, we analyze the representations of the French musical theatre in order to seize its cultural aspects and its characteristic. | |||||||||
| FRE3043 | French Cinema and cultural contents | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | English | Yes | ||
| This course allows students to question how the French cultural contents all through the history gave inspiration to many famous French films and French talking film in Francophone territories (Quebec, North Africa, etc.) Cultural contents such as historical facts, legends, ideologies but also novels and music are a part of the specific quality of French films which are now produced all around the world. Following this globalization of the French cultural contents we will study some famous films from non French territories but were we can find a strong French influence. Finally, the high artistic level and the very personal way of French directors to create films will be questioned through several cases of famous films old and new. | |||||||||