French Ii

The course aims to deepen the most important tools of discourse analysis throuth the study of French press text of metalinguistic, sociological and anthropological nature. A special focus will be dedicated on argumentative discourse. The course also includes a translation module in order to perfect translation techniques from French into Italian.This second-year course (1st semester: 40 hours; 2nd semester: 20 hours) can be accessed once the first year French language course has been completed

At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to use the main discursive and rhetorical strategies in order to produce written texts (even workshop are aimed at achieving this goal) and to develop critical and argumentative skills related to oral discourse. They will also be able to produce accurate translations.