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Montclair State University, located 13 miles west of Manhattan, is offering the following translation courses in the fall, several available via synchronous or asynchronous delivery. The fall 2022 semester runs from September 2 to December 20.

FREN350 -- Translation I, Dr. Gorica Lalic

Conducted in French and English. Asynchronous online.

This course covers methods, techniques, and problems involved in translating from French into English, and English into French. It integrates theory and skill building with content that covers (but is not limited to) the following five disciplines: journalism, politics, literature, economics/business, and movie subtitling. Students will receive individual attention, immediate feedback, and intensive mentoring from their professor, greatly accelerating their development. While the course offers authentic practice opportunities, it also examines vocabulary, comparative sentence structure, grammar, and syntax, and how best to communicate ideas and imagery in both languages. Students will also begin their study of translation theory, exploring concepts such as: translation units; borrowing; calque; literal translation; degrees of freedom; translation loss; cultural issues; compensation; and more. 

FREN 521 – Translating, Reading & Culture, Dr. Kathleen Loysen

Conducted in French. Offered in-person with synchronous online option, Tuesdays 5:30-8.

Students will engage in close textual analysis in order to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various translation approaches. They will also develop their cultural sensibilities so as to be attuned to target audiences’ needs, which vary not only according to geography, but also according to education, gender, age, social background, etc. Bringing this cultural awareness into close contact with textual analysis and awareness of genre, students will then develop their proficiency in translating across genres and areas of specialization, paying attention to textual purpose, generic conventions, specialized jargons, etc. Students will be sensitized to how cultural issues influence the task of translation. Students will combine theoretical readings on the issue of the interaction of culture, linguistics, and translation with textual/translation analyses organized around thematic units.

FREN 523: Translation Workshop II: Medical Interpreting in the Community, Prof. Rocio Txabarriaga

Conducted in French and English. Synchronous online, Thursdays 5:30-8:00 

This online course offers students the tools to build essential spoken language conversion skills, relevant knowledge of medical subjects, and professional protocol and ethics. It enables students to prepare for work as on-site or remote interpreters in community-based settings that include medical offices, hospitals, and clinics. Students will learn techniques to sharpen their listening skills and enhance their short-term memory, as well as basic interpreting abilities such as shadowing and note-taking. Practice will include the most common delivery modes, such as consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, as well as terminology-building exercises.

Additional fall course offerings

https://www.montclair.edu/modern-languages-and-literatures/2022/03/12/summer-and-fall-2022-french-course-descriptions/

To enroll as a visiting student: https://www.montclair.edu/graduate/how-to-apply/non-degree-and-visiting-students/

To apply to our graduate programs in French: https://www.montclair.edu/graduate/how-to-apply/

For more information contact Dr. Elizabeth Emery or Dr. Daniel Mengara

 

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Spring 2021 French Classes in Montclair

Interested in Translation or Teaching? Consider taking French classes at Montclair State University, only 13 miles from New York and easily accessible by mass transit.

The French program at Montclair offers:

  • BA in French with concentrations in French civilization, translation, and teaching
  • A 5-year joint BA/MA in French Studies
  • An MA in French with a concentration in Professional Translation or French Studies
  • Various pathways to becoming an NJ certified teacher.

Spring 2021 courses include Films of the French-Speaking World, Contemporary French Civilization, Computer Assisted Translation, Legal Translation, Seventeenth-Century French Theater and much more!

Sign up for our upcoming online Graduate School Open House on Oct. 24 or feel free to contact Professor Elizabeth Emery: emerye@montclair.edu. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @msufrench

Venez nombreux! Au plaisir de vous voir à Montclair!

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Thinking of earning University credit for French classes?

Consider Montclair State University, only 13 miles from New York and easily accessible by mass transit.

An online summer graduate course (15 May to 25 June) explores "Exploits, Disguise, and Trickery in Medieval French Literature" while Montclair State 2020 Summer and Fall classes are dedicated to Translation, contemporary North African writers, Hugo's Les Misérables and its adaptations, and films from French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean (in addition to language and culture classes at all levels).

The French program at Montclair offers:

  • BA in French with concentrations in French civilization, translation, and teaching
  • A 5-year joint BA/MA in French Studies
  • An MA in French with a concentration in Professional Translation or French Studies
  • Various pathways to becoming an NJ certified teacher.

For more information, contact the Department of Modern Languages: mll@montclair.edu. Or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @msufrench

Venez nombreux! Au plaisir de vous voir à Montclair!

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3438671262?profile=originalInterested in continuing your French studies by joining a vibrant and diverse French-speaking community just a few miles from New York City? It's not too late to enroll for credit-bearing French courses at Montclair State University (NJ) this fall (Sept. 4 to Dec. 19). https://www.montclair.edu/modern-languages-and-literatures/programs-of-study/french/

For more information about any of the online or in-person courses below feel free to contact Elizabeth Emery (emerye@montclair.edu). Montclair State also offers special programs for Adult Learners (65+) residing in NJ.

GRADUATE COURSES

18th Century Seminar: The Senses and Performance in the Enlightenment - 46857 - FREN 532 - 01

Tuesdays, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm  Dr. Pascale LaFountain

This course will center on the evolving relationships among the five senses, materialist philosophy, literary drama, and the public sphere in 18th-century French culture. It is impossible to separate the advancement of the Enlightenment project from developments in 18th-century theories of the senses and public performance. Under consideration will be questions of mind/body duality, the formalization of body language on stage, the centrality of blindness/sight metaphors to Enlightenment theory, bodily metaphors used in literature, and links between 18th-century thought and cognitive science today. Readings will include dramatic, scientific, theoretical, and philosophical works by Condillac, la Mettrie, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, Beaumarchais, Sainte-Albine, Riccoboni, Noverre, and others.

Research Seminar. - 46858 - FREN 603 - 01

Hybrid course meeting (some Mondays on campus 5:30-8 and others online) Dr. Elizabeth Emery

 “Research Seminar” lays a foundation for many of the writing and research skills integral for study at the graduate level in French. Students will hone these skills through the development of an independent research project defined by their own scholarly interests. Through workshops and discussion, participants in the class will have produced a substantive essay formatted for further development as a conference paper and/or article submission to a professional journal.

Introduction to Translation Theory. - 46855 - FREN 503/APLN 560 - 01

Online, Dr. Marisa Trubiano

 

An exploration of the history, theory, and methods of translation and translation practice as a means of engaging with a practical examination of the methodological and theoretical assumptions inherent in the field of translation studies. We will read and analyze some of the key texts that have inspired the development of translation theory and look at the key role played by translators across the globe and in professional settings.

The course will be taught in English with special language-specific modules and speakers discussing Literary & Audiovisual Translation, Theory & Accessibility to Media.

Upper-level Undergraduate Courses

(we also offer all levels of beginning and intermediate language instruction)

 

Mastering French French Grammar Review FREN203

Tuesday/Thursday 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm  Dr. Rabia Redouane

 

French Phonetics. - 45185 - FREN 205 - 01

Monday/Wednesday 11:30-12:45 Mme Harriet Saxon

 

Translation I. - 41069 - FREN 350 - 01

Online Dr. Joanna Dezio

 

France from World War II to the Present - 46854 - FREN 360 - 01

Monday/Wednesday 10-11:15am Dr. Lois Oppenheim

 

Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Tuesdays 5:30-8 pm Dr. Pascale LaFountain

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Fall French courses at Montclair

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Still thinking about enrolling in French courses for Fall 2018? Classes start on September 5 at Montclair State University (in NJ only 13 miles from Manhattan). We offer all levels of French language courses as well as the following specialized undergraduate and graduate courses, which still have a few seats:

 

FREN203 Review of French of Grammar.    TR 10:00 am-11:15 am         

FREN205 French Phonetics                           MW 11:30-12:45pm

FREN304 French Civilization 19th and 20th Centuries        MW 10-11:15am

FREN350 Translation I.                                 TR 11:30 am-12:45 pm

FREN518 Querelles des Femmes in Early Modern Literature.        R 05:30 pm-08:00 pm

FREN548 French Modernism in the Literary and Visual Arts.        M 05:30 pm-08:00 pm

 

For more information between now and August 30, please contact Dr. Kathleen Loysen: loysenk@montclair.edu or Elizabeth Hook: hooke@montclair.edu

 

For information about our new MA track in Professional French translation click here.

For our 12-credit certificate in Professional French Translation click here.

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visiting.jpg?width=600Montclair State University, located in Montclair, NJ, 13 miles west of New York City, is pleased to offer “Women Writers of North Africa,” an intensive four-week three-credit summer graduate course taught in French.  The description follows below.  Please note that space is limited; if interested please register early.

For more information, please contact Dr. Elizabeth Emery (emerye@mail.montclair.edu) or the MSU Department of Summer Sessions: http://www.montclair.edu/summer/  The campus is accessible to New York City by both bus and train service (25 minutes with no traffic from Port Authority by bus and 45 minutes by train from Penn Station).

FREN 551: 21. Women Writers of North Africa

Call Number : 11402

Professeur : Dr. Rabia Redouane             

Adresse courriel: redouaner@mail.montclair.edu

 

Du 11 juin au 3 juillet ;  lundi/mercredi de 6h30 à 8h45 (lundi en classe et mercredi en ligne)

 

Description du cours:

Le cours s’adresse à tout(e) étudiant(e) qui désire se familiariser avec la littérature féminine de langue française au Maghreb. Il a pour objet d’étudier les productions littéraires des écrivains féminines issues du Maghreb (Algérie, Maroc, et Tunisie), en s’interrogeant uniquement sur l’apparition dans l’histoire du roman afin de situer les étapes de ce genre littéraire: d’une part de la littérature autobiographique de témoignage à une littérature de contestation, et d’autre part du développement spécifique de la littérature maghrébine au féminin. Notre attention portera tant sur les œuvres que sur les paramètres sociohistoriques et politiques ayant présidé à leur création et à leur réception. Qui sont ces femmes auteures maghrébines ? Pour qui et pourquoi prennent-elles la plume et quels sujets abordent-elles dans leurs écritures ? Quel(s) espace(s) de la sphère littéraire leur est alloué, et selon quelles modalités ? Telles sont les questions qui dirigeront nos lectures.

 

The following French graduate courses will be offered in the fall semester (September 5 to December 20).  For more information or for detailed course descriptions please contact Dr. Elizabeth Emery (emerye@mail.montclair.edu)

 

FREN502: Theories and Approaches to Teaching French as a Second Language. Call Number: 16938. Dr. Rabia Redouane. Tuesdays 5:30-8:00 pm

 

FREN531: Development of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century France. Call Number: 17693. Dr. Kathleen Loysen.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 am-12:45 pm

 

FREN541. The Diversions of Belle Epoque Paris, 1871-1914 (Nineteenth-Century Seminar in Cultural Studies). Call Number: 16941. Dr. Elizabeth Emery.  Thursdays 5:30-8:00 pm

 

FREN603.  Research Seminar (Theory, Methodologies, and Critical Writing). Call Number: 16943. Dr. Lois Oppenheim. Mondays 5:30-8:00 pm (the course is hybrid: some weeks will be in person and some online)

 

Visiting students welcome! Submit your visiting graduate student form today (click here for more visiting student information).  Nous attendons le plaisir de vous voir parmi nous cet été ou bien l’année prochaine!

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