University Of Sharjah

Sharjah, AE

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Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature

Foreign Languages·Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Bachelor

Overview

To obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Language and Literature, the student must complete 123 credit hours. These hours are University requirements (UR), College requirements (CR), and Program requirements (PR). The allocation of the credit hours is shown in the following table: Requirements Compulsory Elective Total Courses Credit Hours Courses Credit Hours Courses Credit Hours University Requirements 6 18 2 6 8 24 College Requirements 5 15 - 5 15 Program Requirements 21 69 5 15 27 84 Total Credit Hours 102 21 123

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Tuition & Fees

AED 45,062Per year

AED 22,531 Per semester

Program Details

Degree level: Bachelor
Duration: 4 years
Department: Foreign Languages
College: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, graduates will be able to:

Describe the sounds of French and pronounce words and sentences clearly and legibly in terms of segmental and supra-segmental features.

Analyze words into their respective constituents and differentiate sense relations between lexical units.

Analyze sentences into their basic constituents and produce well-formed sentences of various levels of complexity.

Analyze language at the semantic, sociolinguistic, and discoursal levels.

Communicate with clarity, precision, in a variety of forms and for a variety of audiences in well-organized informative and persuasive speeches, paragraphs, essays, reports or research papers.

Differentiate between the major teaching methods and techniques and apply the appropriate teaching method/techniques in teaching specific language skills, taking into consideration language learning principles and styles.

Prepare valid tests of different types to assess the various language skills.

Read a variety of literary genres critically and proficiently to demonstrate in writing or speech the comprehension, analysis, and interpretation of those genres.

Translate and interpret a variety of text types from French into Arabic and vice versa, using proper terminology and appropriate style.

Characterize the cultural specificities of the French speaking world.

Use research skills and procedures to conduct research and deliver written and oral presentations.

Academic Requirements3

1The program requires students to take 24 credit hours, 18 of which are compulsory and the 6 are electives. Seven domains are covered: English Language, Arabic Language, Islamic Studies, UAE Studies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Humanities, Social and Arts, Natural and Health Sciences.
2Every student has to select 5 courses out of these 6: Art of Writing in Arabic, Introduction to Education, Islamic History, History of the Islamic City, Women and Development, Arab Society.
3Students have to take all the compulsory courses (21 courses) and select 5 elective courses from the list of electives courses for the BA in French.