French Language and Literature

Bachelor's

The undergraduate program of the Department of French Language and Literature aims to provide students with a solid foundation in the fields of linguistics, modern language teaching, French Literature, Comparative Literature, French Culture, and Translation and Translation Studies. The Program aims to cultivate students’ intellectual development, foster general education, develop scientific and critical thinking, and shape a European consciousness. In particular, it aims to promote French culture in the Greek-speaking world, intercultural communication, and the training of scholars capable of studying and understanding the French language and literature, to design detailed curricula for the teaching of the French language and literature/culture in education, to handle scientific discourse in writing and speech, describe and interpret cultural phenomena in the French-speaking and Greek-speaking worlds with an emphasis on the comparative dimension, link linguistic approaches to the teaching and learning of French as a first/ second foreign language, be familiar with contemporary teaching methods and pedagogy, with an emphasis on issues in foreign language teaching, as well as with contemporary translation theories.