FREN-32053 credit hours

Studies in Bilingualism

French Studies · 3 hrs Lecture

Offered: Fall Or Winter

FREN-3205 prerequisites

We couldn't read this course's prerequisites into a chain. The wording is under “Requisite courses” below.

Where FREN-3205 counts

Counts toward 3 more as one option among several, not as a course you must take:

FREN 4-YEAR BA IN FRENCH STUDIES (LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS STREAM)
FREN 4-YEAR BA IN FRENCH STUDIES (LITERATURE STREAM)
FREN 4-YEAR BA IN FRENCH STUDIES (LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS COMBINATION STREAM)

Read from the departments' own calendar pages, where 50 of 208 programs are only partly machine-readable, so treat these as a minimum rather than the full list. Confirm with an academic advisor.

Description

This course explores three major aspects of bilingualism: the context, the learner, and the writer. The context section introduces historical and geographical aspects of bilingualism (e.g. official/unofficial bilingualism in the Francophone world), and resulting sociolinguistic situations (e.g. diglossia/bilingualism). The main section of the course focuses on the bilingual learner (e.g. multilingual acquisition, compound bilingualism, the active lexicon in Franco-Manitoban and immersion school children). The concluding section examines examples of bilingual writing (e.g. Beckett, Green, Léveillé).

Requisite courses

6 credit hours in 2000-level French language/linguistics, or permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)].

Restrictions

Students may not hold credit for this course and FREN-4205 | LING-3305 | LING-4305.

Cross-listed

FREN-4205(3), LING-3305(3) and LING-4305(3).

Lecture

From the 2026-27 undergraduate calendar. Always verify details on WebAdvisor or with an academic advisor before registering.