UCL - Introduction to Romance Studies: Linguistics

[ROM1410]

[22.5h + 7.5h] 3 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Kristel Van Goethem

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
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Aims

Knowledge: the student needs to acquire knowledge in linguistics, history, geography and culture in order to understand, in the course of his/her studies, everything about Romance languages and culture.
Skills: the student needs to acquire a heuristic and bibliographical know-how.

Main themes

An introductory course in Romanic heuristic studies (linguistics) deals with the fundamental concepts intrinsic to Romance languages, describes the Romance idioms with a focus on the variety of their socio-cultural status and opens analytical perspectives through the description of particular methodological approaches in linguistics.

Content and teaching methods

The course consists of three parts:
1. Introduction in the history of Romanic studies: description of the relationship between language and time, space and society;
2. Initiation in bibliographical research;
3. Presentation of the Romance languages within the group of Indo-European languages and within the languages of the world. Differentiation process from Vulgar Latin onwards and (succinct) description of the 11 Romance idioms with their historical, spatial and linguistic characteristics.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Support: orkbook
Evaluation: Written exam