Classic French Literature

Code:

LLC085

Acronym:

LFC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Literature

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	0	Study plan	2	-	6	41	162
		study plan	2	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

French

Objectives

The aim is to provide an overview of French culture and literature from the Renaissance to Classicism by choosing some topics from a defined literary corpus.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the teaching of this programme, students are expected to have acquired a general perspective of the authors and texts produced in the French Renaissance and Classicism in close relation with their socio-political contexts.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Middle French: major features for the reading of texts;
   Classical French: major features for reading texts;
   
   2. The French Renaissance and the War of Religion;
   
   3. François Rabelais;
   
   4. Michel de Montaigne;
   
   5. Blaise Pascal;
   
   6. Jean Racine.

Mandatory literature

Demerson, Guy; Rabelais, 1991
Lazard, Madeleine; Rabelais l'humaniste, 1993
Marin, Louis ; L'Ecriture du soi: Ignace de Loyola, Montaigne, Stendhal, Roland Barthes, PUF, 1999
Perrin Francis; Molière chef de troupe, Plon, 2007
Scherer Jacques; La Dramaturgie Classique en France, Nizet, 1973
Vachon, G. A.; Rabelais tel quel, 1977

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures, seminars and tutorials.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Philology > Romanic philology
Humanities > Literature > European literature > Romance literatures > French literature
Humanities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Teste	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	55,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Trabalho de investigação	66,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Average of all assessment components: 2 written tests (80%) + participation (20%).

Classification improvement

To one test/assessment component on explicit demand.