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Undergraduate Program of French

Teaching Methods

The principles of modern pedagogy didactics will be used to facilitate and enable learning in the field of French language. Students become the center of education, and teachers will facilitate their learning skills. Principles of communicative approach, E-learning, will enhance students’ competency in French language.
The well-researched and up-to-date curriculum of the Department has integrated various aspects of the French and Francophone studies to inculcate a learner on personal level as well as professional and social levels. The curriculum contains core courses on different aspects of language learning skills (speaking, writing, listening, and reading) and cultures of France and Francophone countries.

Along with those, the Department also provides a variety of vocational and professional courses, such as translation and interpretation, French for tourism and commerce, linguistics, or literature.  Based learning, functional-notional approach, communicative approach, E-learning will be used. Students will be supported throughout their studies to ensure the development of their creativity. The modern pedagogy : didactics in this field helps students with a passion for learning French language and culture prepare for taking a wide range of roles and responsibilities in the local, teaching French as a foreign language and translate it.

Program Structure

Mode of Study: Full-time
Duration: 4 years
Number of Semesters: 8 semester
Number of Credits: 146
Number of Modules: 61

Mode of Assessment

Both summative and formative assessments will assess students’ performance for each module.
Assessment tools could be different, but the final assessment for every module includes but is not
limited to the following criteria:
• Midterm Exam
• Final Exam
• Reports
• Assignments
• Quizzes
• Others

Learning Goals
Program Learning Outcome
Job Prospects

This program aims to:
• Communication Skills : To achieve advanced proficiency in French language, to attain
fluency in written and oral forms of expression; to be able to communicate, to be able to
comprehend and to develop complex ideas, in written and spoken contexts.
• Cultural and Historical Knowledge : To attain broad- based knowledge of French
speaking culture and its history, from a variety of critical points of view.
• Understanding of Identity Through Language, Literature, and Culture : To arrive at an
understanding of the relationship between language and the production of identity (across
cultures), and to be able to articulate the specific work done by literary texts—among
other cultural objects—within this framework.
• Advanced Writing and Research : To be able to write a longer research paper in French
language.

Upon completion of French studies students will have been assessed and will be able to:
• Actively engage in conversations and discussions with native speakers of French, ranging
in complexity from sophisticated everyday conversations to a basic familiarity
• Read and analyze authentic texts from many areas of French
• Produce written documents of sufficient consistent and reasonable clarity to be readily
intelligible to an outside reader;
• produce a written research project.

1. French teachers in schools
2. French teachers in institutes
3. French teachers in Universities if they have had Master degree in some specialties like
(Didactics of French as a foreign language, Linguistics, Translation, literature etc.)

4. French Translators- Interpreters, precisely in these fields: diplomacy field ( embassy-
consulate ), NGOs, etc.

Modules

#
Code
Module
Template
Semester
Department
Credit
Type
1 1 Academic Debate II First Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
2 2 Comprehension II First Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
3 3 Computer Skills II First Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
4 4 Gender Studies First Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
5 5 Kurdology II First Year SecondSemester The French Language 4 Core
6 6 phonetics First Year SecondSemester The French Language 5 Core
7 7 Grammaire II First Year SecondSemester The French Language 4 Core
8 8 Conversation II First Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
9 9 English II First Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
10 10 Gender First Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
               
1 FR101CV Civilisation First Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
2 FR101COM Communication First Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
3 FR101CE Competences Ecrites First Year FirstSemester The French Language 4 Core
4 FR101CO Competences Orales First Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
5 FR101EN English First Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
6 FR101GR Grammaire First Year FirstSemester The French Language 5 Core
7 FR101KU Kurdologie First Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
8 FR101PR Phonetique et prononciation First Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
9 FR101AC Academic Debate First Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
10 FR101C Comprehension First Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
               
1 FR201CV Civilisation 2 Second Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
2 FR201COM Communication 2 Second Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
3 FR201CE Competences ecrites 2 Second Year FirstSemester The French Language 4 Core
4 FR201CO Competences Orals 2 Second Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
5 FR201EN English 2 Second Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
6 FR201GR Grammaire 2 Second Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
7 FR201LPR Lecture et Pronociation Second Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
               
1 FR101CV Civilsation III Second Year SecondSemester The French Language 4 Core
2 FR101COM Comprehension IV Second Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
3 FR101CE Conversation IV Second Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
4 FR101CO Grammaire III Second Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
5 FR101EN Imperial English II Second Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
6 FR101GR Lecture et Pronociation II Second Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
7 FR101KU Production Ecrite II Second Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
8 FR101PR English III Second Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
               
1 FR301LT Litterature Third Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
2 FR301CON Conversation Third Year FirstSemester The French Language 4 Core
3 FR301FOS FOS Third Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
4 FR30PE Production Ecrite Third Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
5 FR301TR Traduction Third Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
6 FR301EN English 3 Third Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
7 FR301GR Grammaire 3 Third Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
               
1 FR101COM Conversation 5 Third Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
2 FR101CE FOS II Third Year SecondSemester The French Language 4 Core
3 FR101CO English IV Third Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
4 FR101EN Grammaire V Third Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
5 FR101GR Production Ecrite 5 Third Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
6 FR101KU Littérature V Third Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
7 FR101PR Traduction III Third Year SecondSemester The French Language 4 Core
               
1 FR401CA Conversation Argumentee Fourth Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
2 FR401FA Francias des Affaires Fourth Year FirstSemester The French Language 4 Core
3 FR401LI Linguistique Fourth Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
4 FR401MR Methodologie de la recherche Fourth Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
5 FR401EN English 4 Fourth Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
6 FR401LT Litterature 4 Fourth Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
7 FR401PE Production Ecrite 4 Fourth Year FirstSemester The French Language 3 Core
8 FR401TR Traduction 4 Fourth Year FirstSemester The French Language 2 Core
               
1 FR402ENG English 5 Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
2 FR402CA Conversation argumentée Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 4 Core
3 FR402FDA Français des affaires Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
4 FR402PE Production écrite 5 Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
5 FR402LIN Linguistique 5 Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
6 FR402LIT Littérature 5 Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core
7 FR402MDR Méthodologie de la recherche Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
8 FR402TRA Traduction 5 Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 3 Core
9 FR402GRE Gradution research Fourth Year SecondSemester The French Language 2 Core