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2025-2026 / Master

French and Romance languages and literatures : French as a foreign language, professional focus

120 crédits
Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : French as a foreign language, professional focus
P2SFRA01

Cycle view

  • Bloc
  • Organization
  • Theory
  • Practical
  • Others
  • Credits

Core curriculum compulsory courses

B1
25Cr
B2
40Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Lexicology and Lexicography
Marie-Guy Boutier
B1Q130--5
Medieval philology and literature
Sophie Lecomte 
B1Q145--5
Critical theories of literature
Justine Huppe
B1Q130--5
Questions of rhetoric and semiology
François Provenzano
B1Q230--5
Issues in romance linguistics
Marie-Guy Boutier
B1Q230--5
Practical issues related to the Teaching of French as a Foreign and Second LanguageB2TA   10
Part I
Deborah Meunier, Frédéric Saenen, Audrey Thonard
  30-- 
Part II
Deborah Meunier, Frédéric Saenen, Audrey Thonard
  30-- 
Linguistics as applied to language learning and acquisition
Laurent Rasier
B2Q130--5
Final work
Nadine Henrard
B2TA---25

Common core courses

B1
20Cr
B2
5Cr

Select 4 courses from the following modules:

B1
20Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits

Modern French language
Notice : this module is only given to non French native speaker students.
Command of the French language
ISLV, Marielle Maréchal
B1Q230--5
French grammatical analysis
Nicolas Mazziotta
B1Q130--5

Linguistics
Introduction to discourse analysis
Deborah Meunier, François Provenzano
B1Q230--5
Phonetics and phonology
Laurent Rasier
B1Q130--5
Practical issues
Sémir Badir
B1Q130--5
Comparative grammar of Indo-European languages*
Philippe Swennen
B1Q230--5

Sociology and sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics*
François Provenzano
B1Q22010-5
Sociology of families
Mona Claro
B1Q23015-5
Populations, families and health in the South (Africa)
Céline Deville, Marc Poncelet, N'koué Emmanuel Sambieni, Joséphine Wouango
B1Q130--5

Psychology and psycholinguistics
Oral language acquisition
Elise Brassart, Christelle Maillart - Suppl : Sandrine Leroy
B1Q230--5
Psycholinguistics and speech therapy in bilingualism and multilingualism
Annick Comblain
B1Q230--5
Psychology of cognition and language Part I
Christel Devue, Martine Poncelet
B1Q230--5

Culture and intercultural communication
Anthropology of moods and communication
Véronique Servais
B1Q130--5
Intercultural mediation and acculturation processes
Elise Vandeninden
B1Q115--5
In-depth history of French literature in Belgium
Benoît Denis
B1Q245--5

Choose one of the following courses :

B2
5Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Comparative method in linguistics, English-French (english language)
Marie Herbillon - Suppl : Laura Gerday
B2Q130--5
Comparative method in linguistics, German-French
Céline Letawe - Suppl : Vera Höltschi
B2Q130--5
Comparative method in linguistics, Dutch-French
Laurent Rasier
B2Q130--5
Comparative linguistics Spanish-French (spanish language)
Anne-Cécile Druet - Suppl : Nicolas Licata
B2Q130--5

Focus compulsory courses

B1
15Cr
B2
15Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Didactics and methodology of French as a foreign or second language
Deborah Meunier
B1TA30--5
Pedagogy of French grammar as a foreign and second language
Deborah Meunier
B1Q12010-5
On site training : teaching French as a foreign language (part I) - [30h internship]
Deborah Meunier
B1TA--[+]5
On site training: teaching French as a foreign language, part II - [30h internship]
Deborah Meunier
B2TA--[+]10
Problems faced by Immigrants who learn French as a Second Language
Deborah Meunier
B2Q230--5

Bridging courses Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : French as a second language (120 credits)
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits

Compulsory courses

B0
30Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
History of Romance languagesB0Q2   5
Common
Nicolas Mazziotta
  30-- 
and especially history of the French language
  -15- 
Narratology
Laurent Demoulin
B0Q12010-5
History of French literature with an introduction to methods of literary historyB0TA   5
17th-18th centuries
Benoît Denis
  15-- 
19th-21th centuries
Benoît Denis
  30-- 
Historical linguistics of the French language 2 : historical morphology and history of the French language (in-depth approach)
Marie-Guy Boutier
B0TA45--5
French synchronic linguistics
Nicolas Mazziotta
B0TA1515-5
Introduction to medieval French texts, including philological methods
Nadine Henrard
B0TA3015-5

Optional courses

B0
30Cr

Commentary on French authors

Choose two courses out of the following :

B0
10Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
In-depth study of Francophone authors (from the beginnings to 1350)
Sophie Lecomte 
B0Q23015-5
Commentary on French Authors from 1350 to 1600
Nadine Henrard
B0Q13015-5
Applied poetics (17th-21st centuries)
Laurent Demoulin
B0Q245--5
Texts, literature and society, 17th to 21st centuries, I
Justine Huppe
B0Q11530-5

or 2 courses from among:
Introduction to Latin
Sara Fascione - Suppl : Elie Piette
B0TA3015-5
Latin: grammar and texts
Dominique Longrée
B0TA30--5
Introduction to general linguistics and semiology
Julien Perrez, François Provenzano
B0Q130--5

Foreign Romance language

Choose one of the following languages :

B0
20Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits

Spanish Language

B0
20Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Spanish II (spanish language) B0TA   10
Theory
Anne-Cécile Druet - Suppl : Nicolas Licata
  30-- 
Practice
Anne-Cécile Druet - Suppl : Nicolas Licata
  -45- 
Spanish I (spanish language)
Vanessa Casanova Romero, Kristine Vanden Berghe
B0TA3060-10

Italian Language

B0
20Cr
CodeDetailsBlocOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Italian 2 (italian language) B0TA   10
Theory
Hélène Miesse
  30-- 
Practice
Hélène Miesse, Guido Scaravilli
  -45- 
Italian I (italian language) B0TA   10
Theory
Hélène Miesse
  30-- 
Practice
Hélène Miesse, Guido Scaravilli
  -60-