Political science and international relations

BEATRICE AKISSI BOUTIN
BEATRICE AKISSI BOUTIN

According to the Dublin Descriptors, at the end of the course students will be expected to- demonstrate knowledge and ability to understand French at post-secondary level, including its history, development and variations in the areas in which it is used, with the support of advanced textbooks;- be able to apply acquired knowledge in a competent and reflective manner; possess adequate skills to both devise and support arguments;- be able to collect and interpret data useful for making independent judgements, including reflection on related social, scientific or ethical issues;- be able to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialists and non-specialists alike- develop the skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

At the end of the monographic course, students will have a general knowledge of the French language and the contexts in which it is used on different continents.
They will know how to use the basic tools of textual analysis according to the French school and their applications on official or political texts.

At the end of the lecturer's course, students will have the knowledge and skills related to written and oral expression in French through the initiation and/or revision of phonetics and syntactic-linguistic structures: production and language skills will correspond to level B2+ of the CEFR in terms of comprehension (listening-reading, translation), oral expression (oral production), written expression (written production of dictations and simple texts).
Beginners will reach level A2.

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The monographic course (taught in French) will be divided into two parts and will cover the following topic: French language, language policies and society

Part A. History and development of French
- History of French
- The development of French in France and elsewhere
- Institutional FrancophoniePart

Part B. French and its Variations
- Contemporary French in its Variants in France
- Variants of French and society
- French in contact with other languages

Part C. Political and institutional discourse in France
These objectives will be pursued through lectures, listening to and understanding of original videos, individual student activities in analysing specialised texts and individual presentations on course themes.
Texts will be studied using discourse analysis tools such as the enunciation situation, enunciative and argumentative strategies, performativity, modalities, ethos, etc.

The Lecturer’s Course will cover the following grammatical topics:

Pronunciación y ortografía. Artículos. Adjetivos. Pronombres. Complement directo y indirecto. Comparativos y superlativos. Verbal tenses and perífrasis verbales.

In addition, the course teaches translation techniques and aims to develop vocabulary in the fields of politics and society.

Per il corso monografico:
1) Bibliografia di riferimento (frequentanti):
- Raus, Rachele. (2021). FESP: le français pour les étudiants de Sciences politiques, Napoli, Simone.

Bibliografia di riferimento (non frequentanti):
- Raus, Rachele. (2021). FESP: le français pour les étudiants de Sciences politiques, Napoli, Simone.
- Reutner, U., (éd.), Manuel des francophonies, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter.
- Rey A., Duval, F. Siouffi, G. (2013), Mille ans de langue française. Histoire d’une passion, Perrin, Parigi, pp. 261-384.

2) Testi d'esame, che devono essere studiati e sui quali verranno poste le domande (frequentanti e non frequentanti):
Parte A. Aspetti della storia del francese (11 testi)
• Sarkozy, Nos ancêtres les Gaulois, 2016
• Zemmour 2014 et Pape François à Marseille septembre 2023 sur les migrations
• Sénat 1997 et Assemblée nationale 2018, projets de lois sur l’immigration (Raus 2021, es. 3)
• Concile de Tours (813) et Serments de Strasbourg (842)
• Henri Estienne, Deux dialogues du nouveau français italianisé, 1578
• Lettres patentes pour l’établissement de l’Académie Françoise, 1635
• François Charpentier, Défense de la langue française, 1676
• Le développement des créoles de la Caraïbe, trois textes de 1656, 1793, 1874
• Discours de l’abbé Grégoire à la Convention, 1794
• La loi 1882 de Jules Ferry
• Les premiers textes juridiques sur le français en Afrique occidentale française 1897 à 1924

Parte B. Il francese contemporaneo in contesti socio-politici in evoluzione (12 testi)
• La loi Toubon de 1994-2023
• Préface de Lionnel Jospin à Femme, j’écris ton nom… Guide d’aide à la féminisation des noms de métiers, titres, grades et fonctions, 1999
• Tweet et Vidéo dans Il a un accent, et alors ? Blog de Matthieu Avanzi, 2020
• Dix phrases les plus cash d'Emmanuel Macron, 2022
• Les pétitions sur l’armement de Pauline Leon 1792 et de l’Assemblée féministe Paris-Banlieue 2024
• 3 extraits de discours de dirigeants français sur la femme africaine, 2006 et 2017, dans Sara Mejdoubi, 2024. L’imaginaire socio-discursif de « la femme africaine » dans le discours des dirigeants politiques français.
• Avant-propos de Jean-Jacques Aillagon, au Rapport au Parlement sur l’emploi de la langue française, 2003, (Raus 2021, es. 10)
• Préambule à Politique de l’emprunt linguistique, Office québécois de la langue française 2020
• Témoignage d’une francophone égyptienne, Salwa Aggag, 2023
• Kouamé Jean-Martial, Le défi de la variété, La langue française dans le monde, OIF 2019
• Déclaration de Emmanuel Macron sur les relations entre la France et le Vietnam, 27 mars 2018
• Amendement adopté par l’Assemblée de Martinique, 25 mai 2023

Parte C. Il discorso politico e istituzionale in Francia (9 testi)
Raus, Rachele. (2021). FESP: le français pour les étudiants de Sciences politiques, Napoli, Simone : esercizi 12, 13, 14, 18.

Per il lettorato:
- Le Bougnec, Jean-Thierry & Marie-José Lopes, 2020. INSPIRE 2, Hachette FLE.

The monographic course includes lectures, aimed at providing basic knowledge on the fundamental themes of the French language in its variants, exercises and workshops aimed at achieving communicative competence, in-depth thematic seminars through which the ability to analyse sociolinguistic and historical-cultural phenomena will be exercised.

As part of the lecturer’s course, the courses are developed on the basis of the textbook, or newspaper articles and other texts to be translated, of a socio-political nature, and grammar exercises.
Lecturing takes place throughout the year, with grammar skills testing and exam preparation.

Don't forget that your presence is not compulsory, but it is strongly recommended!

The course ends with a single examination consisting of:
(a) a written test (preparatory to the oral test) of linguistic production consisting of a translation (from Italian to French), the writing of one of the articles studied in the lecture courses (for attending students) or a "synthesis" (for non-attending students);
b) an oral test in French (lasting approximately 20 minutes) on the courses attended.
The part concerning the monographic course (for exempted students) will consist of the preparation of for topics chosen by the candidate in each of the two parts of the course and their exposition-commentary in French. The teacher may ask an additional question.
During the monographic course, in-progress assessment aims to help frequent students practise explaining the text and its context.

DELF (B1, B2) and DALF (C1, C2) certificates may be accepted as equivalent to the written test. Students who can provide us with these diplomas, which are less than 2 years old, may be exempted from the written test. The mark for the oral test will then be their final mark.

Written test: Complete the following sentences with a complement pronoun
Oral test: Recall the context in which the text was written and carry out the discourse analysis with the appropriate tools.