FREN 420

Taught entirely in French, this course provides students with the basic tools of comparative stylistics and translation, such as transposition, translation units, modulation, and expansion, and improves their understanding of the nuances of French syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and register. Students will closely examine translations of excerpts of different well-known texts and will work on actual translations from French to English and English to French. Note: This course is equivalent to CEFR level C1. -- Prerequisite -- FREN 319 and two other 300-level FREN courses. -- Corequisite -- None. -- Pre or Corequisite -- None. Section information text: Instructional Method - Blended; Mix of in-person and on-line