Courses in English 2012
LEA2/14d INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS NEGOCIATION IN ENGLISH
Spring Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Lectures: 1 hour per week Tutorials: 1hour per week
ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE:
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- Formulate and express ideas in English
- Influence and convince people in English
- Know the technical vocabulary used in business negociation in English
- Analyse power relationships
- Construct a negociating strategy
- Bring negociations to a successful conclusion
- Understand the basic cultural factors which influence intercultural negociating
COURSE PROGRAM:
Setting the framework:
Introductions, greetings, starting a conversation
Expressing first impressions and personal opinions
Clarifying the agenda and the key points
Starting negociations:
Seeking information about needs, summarising, checking and reformulating
Referring back to previous discussions
Fixing deadlines and future meetings
The main points:
Making suggestions, giving precise details
Conditions and requirements
Reacting to an offer
Accepting, refusing and explaining your reasons
Problem solving:
Explaining why you disagree
Clarifying problems, suggesting modifications
Apllying pressure, coming to a compromise
Making agreements:
Summarising the main points
Defining actions points and precise arrangements
Distributing responsibilities
Drawing up a written agreement
LEA5/10dc :
BUSINESS NEGOTIATION IN ENGLISH
Fall Semester
THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Lectures: 30 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE:
At the end of this course students should be able to negociate in English in a business context . This means: express his ideas and arguments clearly, listen to information and summarise it orally, clarify his fellow negociators statements, use tact and diplomacy, present a logical sequence of ideas, convince people, reply to objections, suggest solutions to problems and conclude a deal.
COURSE PROGRAM:
Markets surveys, inventing and elaborating new products or services. Suggesting new ideas. Evaluating fixed and variable costs. Promoting a brand. Fixing prices or rates, producing an estimate. Producing an oral or written report. Commenting on someone else’s report. Taking part in or chairing a meeting.
Prospecting for new customers, professional interviews, selling something over the telphone, selling something via the internet, replying to sales enquiries, ordering or taking an order, methods of payment, making an offer (oral or written), promoting customer loyalty.
LEA5/10e : ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH
Fall Semester
THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Lectures: 24 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE:
Speak fluently and coherently on business subjects
Use accurate vocabulary in all usual situations of business life
Express oneself naturally in work place
Understand the details of professional documents in English without help
Prepare a speech on a business or economic subject
Make a business presentation
Write well-structured professional documents
Understand complicated conversations between several English speakers about economic issues
COURSE PROGRAM:
Presentations in English: presenting figures, situations, new products, a balance sheet, a new production or management process
Writing in business English: letters, emails, reports, minutes, manuals, brochures
Using professional documents: articles, leaflets, manuals, budgets, job descriptions, instruction sheets.
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LCE1/3a-7aINTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION ISSUES
Fall & Spring Semesters
Lectures: 12 hours total ECTS credits: 2 per semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
It is possible to join the class in January
OBJECTIVE:
At the end of this module, the student should be able to:
- Discuss the nature and role of culture
- Identify and explain the principal elements of culture
- Describe the influence of culture on general behaviour
- Identify the importance of cultural differences on general behaviour
- Begin to develop intercultural sensitivity
COURSE PROGRAM:
Semester 1:
Defining culture:
- Definitions, concepts, elements and images of culture.
- Distinguishing between objective and subjective culture.
- Exploring stereotypes, preconceptions and generalisation.
- Recognising the cultural differences that make a difference.
Values: The foundation of culture:
- Understanding the importance of values
- One’s own and others’ values
- How values define cultural assumptions
Research into culture, Part I:
- Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck: cultural orientations
The Challenges of Intercultural Communication:
- The “stumbling blocks” to intercultural communication.
- Recognising the elements of non-verbal communication.
- Exploring non-verbal communication.
- Exploration of culture shock.
Semester 2:
Research into culture, Part II:
- A study of cultural “dimensions”
- The research work of Geert Hofstede & Fons Trompenaars.
- Edward T. Hall’s model of: space, time and context.
Communication styles.
- Recognising different communication styles in the context of cultural orientations and dimensions.
Putting it all into context:
- The impact of culture in an intercultural context: the realities, challenges and benefits of interacting across cultures.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Hofstede, Geert., Cultures and Organizations. Software of the Mind
Trompenaars, Fons., Riding the Waves of Culture
Hall, Edward T., Understanding Cultural Differences
Marx, Elisabeth, Breaking Through Culture Shock
Storti, Craig, The Art of Crossing Cultures
Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow Sixty, Million Frenchmen Can’t be Wrong
Site for the Society for Intercultural Education, training and research
Geert Hofstede
Fons Trompenaars & Charles Hampden-Turner website
Practical advice to facilitate working and communicating across cultures and countries.
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LCE1/1c :INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE
Fall Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
OBJECTIVE: To give students a general overview of English literature from the 1510 to the Romantic Age and give them the methodological tools necessary to analyse literary texts effectively.
COURSE PROGRAM:
- 1510-1620
- 1620-1660
- Restoration
- Eighteenth Century
- The Romantic Age
- Much Ado about Nothing - William Shakespeare
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-Hérou, J., Précis de littérature anglaise, Nathan, 1992.
-Gray M., A Dictionary of Literary Terms, York Handbooks, 1992.
-Grellet V., Valentin M-H., An Introduction to English Literature, Hachette Supérieur, 2000.
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LCE1/1d: LITERATURE SEMINARFall Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM:
-Washington Irving «Rip Van Winkle» (given in class)
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, «The Minister’s Black Veil» (given in class)
-Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin Classics.
LCE1/2e : ENGLISH ORAL EXPRESSION & COMPREHENSIONFall & Spring Semesters
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
It is possible to join the class in January
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM: Students will be encouraged to express themselves in fluent grammatical English in a variety of registers. Extracts from film, TV & Radio will be studied and analysed. Students will participate in role plays, improvisations and formal presentations. Oral document analysis and summary will be practised in class.
LCE1/5c :INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE 2
Spring Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
OBJECTIVE: To give students a general overview of English literature since 1800 and give them the methodological tools necessary to analyse literary texts effectively.
COURSE PROGRAM:
- An overview of English literature since 1800
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Dubliners, James Joyce
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LCE1/4b & 8b : INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ENGLISHFall and Spring Semesters
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
It is possible to join the class in January
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE:At the end of the course students should Have a clear understanding of the business environment
Have developed important practical business skills such as presenting, attending meetings, telephoning, negotiating and socializing in a business context
Have acquired useful business English vocabulary for use in a variety of practical contexts
COURSE PROGRAM (Fall)
* Making Contact and fixing appointments
Hiring and Firing - the language of human ressources
* Presenting a Company and your colleagues, understanding and creating job descriptions
* Receiving visitors - guided tours, presentations, arranging a schedule/accommodation etc;
* Participating in or chairing meetings -presenting a project, giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing politely
* Basic telephone skills
(Spring)
* Basicbusiness correspondance
* Making and taking an order, following it through
* Presenting and launching a product
* Complaining and problem solving - orally or in writing
* Money & Statistics - understanding accounts, budgets, graphs and balance sheets in English etc.
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LCE2/9d-13d : ENGLISH ORAL EXPRESSIONFall & Spring Semesters
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
It is possible to join the class in January
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM: Students will be encouraged to express themselves in fluent grammatical English in a variety of registers. Students will participate in role plays, improvisations and formal presentations. An introduction to public speaking will be given.
LCE2/11a : ENGLISH ORAL COMPREHENSIONFall & Spring Semesters
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
It is possible to join the class in January
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE: Listening to genuine English recordings in order to familarise the student with natural speech and real-life listening.
COURSE PROGRAM:
- Listening to interviews, both audio and video
- Documentaries
- News broadcasts
- Different accents in English
LCE2/13c : ENGLISH LITERATURE 4
Spring Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
OBJECTIVE: We shall be studying the set books from a detailed critical standpoint. A thorough knowledge of the texts will be required and a good grasp of critical terminology.
ASSESSMENT: Theoretical questions with a textual commentary and/or critical essay.
SET BOOKS:
-William Shakespeare, The Sonnets and a Lover’s Complaint, John Kerrigan (Ed.), Penguin, 2004.
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Ed. Margaret Cardwell, Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, Selected Short Stories from The Celestial Railroad (photocopies).
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LCE2/9c : ENGLISH LITERATURE 3Fall Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
OBJECTIVE: We shall be studying English literature (drama, novel and short story) from a theoretical point of view. Students will learn how to write a critical commentary of the works studied. Particular emphasis will be placed on the accurate use of technical, critical terminology.
SET BOOKS:
-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Holland (Ed.), OUP, Oxford World’s Classics, 2008.
-Paul Auster, City of Glass (The New York Trilogy), Faber & Faber, 2004.
-Selected short stories: Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame and Kate Chopin (photocopies).
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LCE3/24k : WORLD WAR 1 & CANADIAN CULTURESpring Semester
A MAXIMUM OF 12 STUDENTS MAY REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 6
COURSE PROGRAM:
The historically rich region of Flanders, which Charles de Gaulle once dubbed a “fatal avenue,” the most fought-over piece of land on earth, is also important to Canadian history and culture, thanks largely to World War I. Indeed, historians have referred to the Battle of Vimy Ridge as Canada’s “birth of a nation.” A total of 619,636 men and women served Canada during the war, at a time when the entire population of Canada numbered roughly eight million; 66,655 Canadians died and another 172,950 were wounded, mostly in this small region. Some of those experiences were documented on film, as well as in prose and in verse: Charles Yale Harrison’s anti-war novella Generals Die in Bed was published in 1930, and John McCrae’s famous “In Flanders’ Fields” is by no means the only Canadian poem written during or about that conflict; Canada’s most expensive film production before the sound era was 1928’s Carry on, Sergeant. This course will examine some of that early C20 work alongside more contemporary material, including novels (Timothy Findley’s The Wars and Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road), film (Passchendaele), and plays (the musical Billy Bishop Goes to War and Vern Thiessen’s Vimy).As part of the course, the class will also visit Péronne’s Historial de la Grande Guerre and Ypres’s In Flanders’ Fields Museum, Passchendaele and Tyne Cot Cemetery, and the Canadian monuments and battlefields at Vimy and Beaumont-Hamel.
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E3/339 SHAKESPEARE'S FRANCESpring Semester
A MAXIMUM OF 12 STUDENTS MAY REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 6
COURSE PROGRAM:
This course will entail study of Shakespeare’s representations of France and the French through examination of the very different plays that he set there (at least in part), including King John, 1 Henry VI, Henry V, Love’s Labour’s Lost, All’s Well that Ends Well, and As You Like It, as well as several notable French characters, such as Doctor Caius in Merry Wives of Windsor and the King of France in King Lear, in relation to Shakespeare’s sources and other contemporary documents. The class will also take a field trip to Calais, Crécy and Azincourt, and another to London’s reconstructed Globe Theatre.
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LCE3/17c The American Short StoryFall Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE:
Through the close study of two classic works, we will analyze some of the major themes to be found in American literature: the Puritan legacy and the presence of Evil, the comic and the tragic, regionalism.
Herman Melville, Billy Budd and Other Tales, Signet edition, with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. We will be looking at the Piazza Tales that are only available together for a cheap price in this American edition. Do not buy the Penguin Classics edition. The stories are also available under the title The Piazza Tales from Northwestern University Press, which constitutes the authoritative edition, but it is a bit more costly.
Bibliography:
Deleuze, Gilles. «Bartelby, ou la formule», ch. 10 in Critique et clinique. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1993.
Durand, Régis. Melville: Signes et métaphore. Lausanne: L’âge d’Homme, coll. «Cistre», 1980.
Jaworski, Philippe. Melville: Le Désert et l’empire. Paris: Presses de l’ENS, coll. «Offshore», 1986.
Monfort, Bruno, ed. Herman Melville: The Piazza Tales. Paris: Armand Colin/CNED, 2002.
Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
Bibliography:
Bleikasten, André. Flannery O’Connor: In extremis. Paris: Belin, coll. «Voix américaines», 2004.
Liénard-Yeterian, Marie & Gérald Préher, eds. Nouvelles du Sud: Hearing Voices, Reading Stories. Paris: Éditions de l’École Polytechnique, 2007.
O’Gorman, Farrell. Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
Pothier, Jacques. Synthèse d'une œuvre: les nouvelles de Flannery O’Connor.Nantes: Éditions du Temps/Editions de l'Université de Versailles St Quentin, 2004.
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LCE3/17d MONSTERS & VAMPIRES IN FILM AND LITERATUREFall Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE: Students will concentrate particularly on understanding the ways the authors and film director manage to scare and horrify their public while still maintaining rea l human interest.
COURSE PROGRAM:
Bram Stoker's Dracula and its many film adaptations
Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its film adaptations.
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LCE3/17d-21d : PUBLIC SPEAKINGFall & Spring Semesters
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
It is possible to join the class in January
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE:
Teaching students to express themselves clearly and fluently in public in formal and professional settings.
COURSE PROGRAM:
- Public speaking
- Making oral presentations
- Role plays
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LCE3/19a : READING PICTURES- BRITISH PAINTINGS 1509-2012Fall Semester
THIS CLASS IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE:
At the end of the class, the student should be able to analyse different types of pictures ( paintings, engravings, drawings) thanks to technical terms. He/she also should be able to spot key moments of English history and acquire some cultural notions.
COURSE PROGRAM:
This class will look at key moments in British history and basic cultural concepts suing various artistic supports: paintings, engravings, sketches, photos etc. We shall also learn the technical vocabulary needed for this type of analysis.
We shall be looking at three main areas:
- The visual arts in Britain from the Renaissance to the 20th century.
- How to understand and analyse the visual arts in English
- Structuring an artistic analysis or commentary
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A handout will be available in the first class, as well as a selective bibliography.
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LCE3/23a : READING PICTURES-THE MOVING IMAGE-Spring Semester
THIS CLASS IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE:
- Increasing our general knowledge of the culture of English-speaking world.
- Learning how to understand and interpret films in English in their cultural context.
- Understanding how literary works are adapted for the screen.
COURSE PROGRAM:
Analysis of sequences or full movies in class.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A handout will be available in the first class, as well as a selective bibliography.
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LCE3/21b :
U.S. CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES
Spring Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM:
Part 1: Crime ands guns in the U.S
Chapter 1: Violence, crime and crime control
Violence: a cultural heritage?
The extent of the “crime epidemic”
The roots of crime
The geographic concentration of crime
The victims and the perpetrators
Crime control and U.S. politics
Chapter 2: Guns and guns control
Basic facts and figures
Guns in American history
The ideological debate over gun control
Legal action against gun ownership
The paradox about the public opinion
Part 2: Education in the U.S.
Chapter 1: The secondary school system
A decentralized system
Diversity: a key word
Desegregation
Bilingual education
Life in high school
A nation at risk
Chapter 2: Higher education
Introduction: some historical landmarks
Admission: a privilege, not a right
The student body
The various types of institutions
Administration and financing
Student life and career
“Publish or perish”: research in universities
Cost containment: a challenge for the future
LCE3/21c : ADVANCED SHAKESPEARESpring Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH