Undergraduate courses Language Sciences Track Linguistics and didactics of French as a mother tongue and French as a foreign language
field(s) of training :
Arts, Literature, Languages
diploma level :
Grade de Licence (Bac+3)
duration of the program :
3 years
location(s) :
Caen · campus 1distance learning courses available
Course units
Year 1
CORE COURSE
- Description of contemporary French
- Digital Cultures
- Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
- Language and communication
- Phonetics and phonology
- Rhetoric and speech acts
- French : Institution of French
LITERATURE OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Opening Discipline
- Comparative Literature
- Modern foreign language
- Latin
- Today's writing
- French language and literature
Languages, methods and skills
- Modern foreign language
- Methodology
- Personalized student project
Year 2
CORE COURSE
- Introduction to the didactics of French as a foreign language
- Literature and linguistics analysis
- Semantics
- French, standards and variations
- Introduction to corpus linguistics
- Syntax
- Morphology
- Social norms and Speeches
- Teaching of the French language
- French in diachrony
LITERATURE OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LITERATURE
Opening Discipline
- French language and literature
- Comparative literature : theory and text
- Comparative Literature : Analysis
- Latin
Languages and methods
- Stylistic
- Tutored project
- Modern foreign language
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Modern Foreign Language : Languages, Civilization, Literature
Tutored project
Year 3
BASIC TEACHINGS
- Syntax and semantics
- Syntax issues
- Linguistic pragmatics
- Phonetics, phonology and interface spoken/written French
- Linguistics and poetics
- Sentence and text grammar
- Language diversity and typology
- Semantic issues
- Psycholinguistics
- Text cohesion
- Semiotics
SPECIALIZATION
- Theoretical benchmarks in language didactics
- Mathematics
- Discovery of a language
- Writing and spelling
- Francophonie
- Linguistics for teaching French as a Foreign Language
- Corpus linguistics
- French
LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE HISTORY
- History of the language
- Language practice (English, German)
- Speaking (Spanish)
- Other languages
Course overview
Language sciences form a disciplinary grouping whose object of study is language and the languages considered in their diversity. Linguistics, as a scientific discipline, is at the heart of this disciplinary grouping, which also includes several related fields : phonetics, phonology, morphology, lexicology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics, and semiotics.
The Bachelor Degree in Language Sciences offers training in the different fields of linguistics of contemporary and ancient French and in general linguistics with a priority given to the theoretical approach, to professional training (teaching), or to training in the teaching of French as a foreign language.
The three years of the Language Sciences degree are available in distance learning.
Registration process
Level
Completion of secondary education + Baccalauréat qualification
Entry requirements
Completion of secondary education + Baccalauréat qualification or equivalent
Application process
Tuition fees
Administrative registration includes the payment of the Student Life and Campus Life Contribution and the payment of registration fees. Details can be found on the training portal.
Course structure
On-site or distance learning (CEMU)
Course details
Year 1 Semester 1
UE1 - Fundamental
UE2 - Fundamental 2
LITERATURE OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LITERATURE
UE3 - Opening discipline 1
UE4 - opening discipline 2
UE5 - Languages - methods and skills
FOREIGN LANGUAGE (English, German, Spanish)
UE3 - Opening discipline 1 5grammar, expression, comprehension, phonetics)
UE4 - Opening discipline 2 (literatire, civilisation)
UE5 - Languages, methods and skills7
year 1 semester 2
UE6 - Fundamental 3
UE7 - fundamental 4
LITERATURE OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LITERATURE
UE8 - opening discipline 3
UE9 - opening discipline 4
UE10 - Languages, methods and skills
FOREIGN LANGUAGE (English, German, Spanish)
UE8 - opening discipline 3 (Grammar, expression and comprehension, phonetics)
UE9 - Opening discipline 4 (literature, civilisation)
UE10 - Languages, methods and skills
Year 2 - semester 3
UE1 Fundamental 5
UE2 - Fundamental 6
LITERATURE OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LITERATURE
UE3 - opening discipline 1
UE4 - opening discipline 2
UE5 - Languages and methods
FOREIGN LANGUAGE (English, German, Spanish)
Year 2 semester 4
UE6 - Fundamental 7
UE7 - fundamental 8
LITERATURE OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LITERATURE
UE8- Opening discipline 3
UE9 - opening discipline 4
UE10 - Languages and methods
FOREIGN LANGUAGE (English, German, Spanish)
UE8- Languages 2
UE9 - Civilisation 2
UE10 - Literature 2
Year 3 - semester 5
UE1 - Fundamental 9
UE2 - Fundamental 10
UE 3 - Fundamental 11
UE4 - Specialisation 14
UE5 - Language and hitory of the language
Year 3 - semester 6
UE6 - Fundamental 12
UE7 - Fundamental 13
UE8 - Fundamental 14
UE9 - pecialiation
UE10 - Languages and history of the language
Language
French
Learning outcome
Skills or abilities assessed
- analyse language productions in a reasoned and critical manner with respect to content and expression
- understand the evolution of the discipline and the diversity of its approaches
- describe and explain a linguistic fact
- write a summary, a commentary, a synthesis, a report
- apply appropriate analytical tools
- constitute a corpus of data
- identify a problem and implement an argument
- extract and manipulate linguistic data
- use computer tools for specific needs
- have good analytical skills in language didactics and be able to define a pedagogical practice of this sector
Further study
Master's Degree in Language Sciences
Careers
Teaching and research in Language Sciences : the PhD in Language Sciences gives access to teaching and research positions in universities and in public or private institutions.
Primary and secondary education : preparation for recruitment exams: professorship of schools, CAPLP2 Letters/English, Letters/History-Geography, CAPES of Modern literature and Documentation.
Teaching French abroad : complementary training for the National Education recruitment exam for positions abroad and local recruitment of French teaching assistants.
Adult education, literacy : teaching of French in continuing education centers for both French and non-French speakers and literacy courses for newcomers (especially for students with a background in French as a foreign language).
Communication professions : integration into specialized training schools: journalism, communication, advertising, press attaché, technical writer, book and publishing professions (documentation, lexicography, correction, etc.).
Language industry: this sector of activity is certainly the one that opens the most perspectives and new developments to language sciences. The professions related to this sector of activity are largely based on computer skills and knowledge, but without requiring a double curriculum. In the absence of a computer science background, the linguist has to work with the computer scientist to design and develop applications. These different opportunities in relation to computer science concern in particular :
- Machinal translation (bilingual and multilingual translation of scientific and technical texts)...
- Expert systems and artificial intelligence (access to data in natural language and reasoning simulation...)
- Automatic document generation
- Search and processing of textual information. Example : strategic intelligence in a competitive, humanitarian and institutional environment
- Development of writing tools (spelling and grammar correction, electronic dictionaries, automatic summary...)
- Implementation of speech recognition and speech synthesis in professional applications (voice commands, embedded information, assistance for the disabled
Address
Université de Caen Normandie
UFR HSS · Humanités et sciences sociales
Esplanade de la Paix · CS 14032 · 14032 Caen Cedex 5
France
hss.licence.sdl@unicaen.fr
Course leader
Valerie Amary · valerie.amary@unicaen.fr
More information
UFR HSS website : http://ufrhss.unicaen.fr/disciplines/sciences-du-langage/