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FLE 391 Comparative Grammar: French- Turkish I (3-0)3
FLE 392 Comparative Grammar: French- Turkish II (3-0)3
FLE 393 Translation from French (3-0)3
FLE 394 Readings in French Contributions to Humanities (3-0)3
FLE 395 History of French Culture (3-0)3
FLE 491 A Survey of French Literature (3-0)3
FLE 492 Introduction to French Linguistics (3-0)3
FLE 493 Translation into French (3-0)3
FLE 494 Advanced Literary Texts in French (3-0)3
FLE 495 Methods of French Language Teaching (3-0)3
 

DESCRIPTION OF COURSES IN THE MINOR PROGRAM IN FRENCH LANGUAGE

FLE 391 Comparative Grammar: French-Turkish I (3-0)3
Comparison of the categories of finite verb, subject and predicate, tense of verb, modality, gender of verb, article, pronoun, adverb, relative clauses, adjectival, nominal phrases and related grammatical topics in the two languages under consideration.
 
FLE 392 Comparative Grammar: French-Turkish II (3-0)3
Comparison of the categories of subject, direct and indirect object, case, subject and object sentences, modal auxiliary verbs, sentence connectives, questions, indirect questions, temporal clauses, conditional clauses, infinitives and related grammatical topics in the two languages under consideration.
 
FLE 393 Translation from French (3-0)3
Translation from French into Turkish. Special problems in translating literary, philosophical, scientific and commercial texts. Lexical and structural problems in the translation process.
 
FLE 394 Readings in French Contributions to Humanities (3-0)3
Reading texts of high intellectual level from representative writers of philosophy, art, humanities and social sciences in different centuries.
 
FLE 395 History of French Culture (3-0)3
17th century and Louis XIV. 18th century, the century of enlightenment and revolutions of the bourgeois. The social and economic development of the 19th century. Bourgeois democracies and French Empire. The 5th republic.
 
FLE 491 A Survey of French Literature (3-0)3
French literature in the epoches of Renaissance, Classicism, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism. Poetry, novels and short stories from the 17th to the 20th century. Principal writers of each literary movement.
 
FLE 492 Intro. to French Linguistics (3-0)3
The Latin and old French "Chanson de Roland" and old French. The influence of foreign language. Language reform and "La Plèiade". French as a literary and diplomatical language. "Crèol" and "Quèbecois". Contemporary normative linguistics. Language policy in French.
 
FLE 493 Translation into French (3-0)3
Translation into French. Special problems in translating literary, philosophical, scientific and commercial texts, problems in the translation process.
 
FLE 494 Advanced Literary Texts in French (3-0)3
Reading literary texts of high level from representative writers in different centuries.
 
FLE 495 Methods of French Language Teaching (3-0)3
Theories of language acquisition and language teaching methods. Bilingualism. French as a second foreign language. A comparative sociology of English and French as foreign and second languages. Curriculum planning. Computer-aided language learning. Teacher training: theory and practice teaching.