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At an intermediate level, this course emphasizes the principles and practices of writing fiction. Students are encouraged to explore established and emerging forms and to focus on the production of a completed work of fiction.

This course explores the genres of science fiction and fantasy in literature, with some reference to works in translation. The two genres will be examined as intersecting literary modes, with particular attention given to their potential for transformative creation.

A variable-content seminar on major authors such as Dickens, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Laurence, and the Brontes.

A variable-content seminar course on specific literary themes or genres such as the Faust figure, the motif of survival in Canadian literature, the frontier as a recurrent idea in American literature, comedy, tragedy, Romanticism, Neoclassicism, and writing by women. Students may take different-genre, different-theme versions of this course.

This course is designed to provide students in Education who expect to work with children (ages 0-12) with a working knowledge of important concepts and issues in Educational Psychology. Students will gain an understanding of how children from diverse backgrounds develop and learn and how teachers provide appropriate learning opportunities to support academic, cognitive and moral development, culture and diversity, and psychological development.

This course is designed to provide students in Education who expect to work with adolescents (ages 11-17) with a working knowledge of important concepts and issues in Educational Psychology. Students will gain an understanding of how adolescents from diverse backgrounds develop and learn and how teachers provide appropriate learning opportunities to support academic, cognitive and moral development, culture and diversity, and psychological development.

Introduction to the origin and evolution of the Earth and the solar system, and plate tectonics and the rock cycle. Simple energy balances and interactions between radiation and the atmosphere, oceans, ice masses, and the global hydrological cycle. Evolution of life, biogeography, and global climate in the context of geological time. The carbon cycle. Human interaction with the Earth. Mineral and energy resources.

This course provides a general corporate framework for financial decision making. The course examines types of securities, basic methods of valuation, valuation and selection of physical and intellectual assets, operation of asset markets, market efficiency, risk measures and risk reduction methods, financing policy, including choices between debt and equity financing.

This course assumes little or no previous instruction in French. It introduces the beginner to basic vocabulary and grammatical structures and terminology. The laboratory facilitates the development of aural/oral skills through activities such as drills, directed conversations, songs, etc.

This is the entry-level course for students who have chosen French. Basic conversational vocabulary will be covered, as well as verbal structures including past tense. You will develop aural/oral skills through drills, directed dialogue and music.

This course will cover more detailed grammatical patterns, including verb tenses and their uses. Aural/oral skills will continue to develop through increased use of French in class and laboratory practice.

This is the entry-level course for students who have chosen French. Basic conversational vocabulary will be covered, as well as verbal structures including past tense. You will develop aural/oral skills through drills, directed dialogue and music. This course cannot be taken for credit if the student has taken French 20 (French grade 11) or French 30 (French grade 12) at the high school level.

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Mon from 11:30 to 13:20

Tue, Thu from 11:30 to 12:50

Sep 3 2025 - Dec 20 2025

Grande Prairie Campus

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B2

Fri from 11:30 to 13:20

Mon, Wed from 14:30 to 15:50

Sep 3 2025 - Dec 20 2025

Grande Prairie Campus

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This course will cover more detailed grammatical patterns, including verb tenses and their uses. Aural/oral skills will continue to develop through increased use of French in class and laboratory practice. This course cannot be taken for credit if the student has taken French 30 (French Grade 12) at the High School level.

This intermediate university course builds on beginner courses taken in high school or university and combines spoken and written French, and enhances skills in listening, comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, production, literature, and French/Francophone culture.

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Fri from 14:30 to 16:20

Sep 3 2025 - Dec 20 2025

Grande Prairie Campus

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Tue, Thu from 14:30 to 15:50

Sep 3 2025 - Dec 20 2025

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This intermediate university course is a continuation of spoken and written French, and enhances further skills in listening, comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, production, literature, and French/Francophone culture.

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Fri from 14:30 to 16:20

Jan 6 2026 - Apr 23 2026

Grande Prairie Campus

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Tue, Thu from 14:30 to 15:50

Jan 6 2026 - Apr 23 2026

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Formerly FP1100 and FR1100 This course is an intensive first year UT course for French Immersion graduates, Francophone students and Angelophones with similar competence. It is designed to further communicative competence in French with an emphasis on oral expression, to develop understanding of the intercultural aspect of Francophonie and to review the main points of French morphology and syntax.

Formerly FP1110 and FR1110 This first year university course is the continuation of FR2210. It stresses the development of written expression, notably through the practice of essay writing, while it continues to further advance the understanding and knowledge of French syntax and grammar.

This course uses the study of various intellectual, cultural, and historical manifestations to provide students with a window into the French world.

Students will become familiar with the basic linguistic differences and principles of translation between English and French. Through the acquisition of theoretical concepts, notions of contrastive linguistics, analysis and regular translations exercises, students will learn to transfer texts from French into English and from English into French. The course will be taught in French.

Formerly FR2510 This second year university French course prepares the student to function in French in his/her daily and professional activities and to commence his/her studies in French literature and linguistics. The course develops oral and written skills as well as grammar and vocabulary.