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Mon 20 Jan, Mon 27 Jan, ... Mon 9 Mar 2020
10:00 - 11:30

Venue: 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1

Provided by: Language Centre


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CULP: French Basic for Academic Purposes (LAP) - DIVINITY
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Mon 20 Jan, Mon 27 Jan, ... Mon 9 Mar 2020

Description

This weekly class is intended to help research students in Divinity to develop their skills in reading French documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts:

The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc.

The second part will be devoted to the translation of original French texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a French passage.

For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.

THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE IN THE LENT TERM ONLY.

Target audience
  • Research students from the School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences and the School of Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Further details regarding Language Centre eligibility criteria are available
Prerequisites

This course is for Divinity students only.

Sessions

Number of sessions: 8

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Mon 20 Jan 2020   10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 map Jackie Bow
2 Mon 27 Jan 2020   10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 map Jackie Bow
3 Mon 3 Feb 2020   10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 map Jackie Bow
4 Mon 10 Feb 2020   10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 map Jackie Bow
5 Mon 17 Feb 2020   10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 map Jackie Bow
6 Mon 24 Feb 2020   10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 map Jackie Bow
7 Mon 2 Mar 2020   10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 map Jackie Bow
8 Mon 9 Mar 2020   10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 map Jackie Bow
Aims

Develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical, stylistic commentary, and translation.

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CULP: Languages for Academic Purposes

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