The American University of Paris - French Studies and Modern Languages

Olivier Crepelliere

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In addition to a solid and founding education in the fields of Film Studies and Modern French Literature, Olivier Crépellière decided to study the teaching of French as a Foreign Language, as well as the Didactics of Languages and Training Engineering at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3).

Starting his career in 2007 at the University of Philology of Novi Sad (Serbia), then returning to France on a mission for the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (via the DGLFLF), he then continued his teaching in various institutions such as the University of Chicago (Center in Paris), the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), the École Polytechnique, Sciences Po (Paris), etc.

For more than 17 years, he has trained French or foreign students and teachers of absolutely all levels in: French as a Foreign Language of course, but also Image Education, French Didactics, Introduction to French Linguistics, French Academic Writing Methodology, French Civilization, French Press and Current Affairs, Corrective Phonetics, French Grammar, TCF preparation (test of knowledge of French) and DELF / DALF preparation (diplomas of studies or in-depth studies in French).

Working at �� since 2015, he also holds a double DELF / DALF accreditation issued in 2009 by France Education International (formerly CIEP), the reference center in the field of certification and assessment of French. He can therefore both:

officially assess any foreigner wishing to obtain a diploma certification in French as a foreign language (which he has done by being a jury, examiner and corrector of DELF / DALF sessions several times, for the Alliance Française in particular),
and through its education in Language Didactics and Training Engineering, deliver to any establishment that so wishes, extensive expertise in the field of assessment and overhaul of the offer and course content adapted to the CEFR ( Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Finally, Olivier Crépellière believes in a new approach to language teaching through the arts and culture, which allows both to escape their instrumentalization by avoiding exclusively disciplinary approaches. but also to move to a logic of « appropriation » and not simply of « acquisition », since:

"Like long echoes that intermingle from afar
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The perfumes, the colors and the sounds respond." *

* (1) Baudelaire, C., Correspondences, in The Flowers of Evil, librairie générale, 18

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2009 - Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Paris 3

Master's Degree in Didactics of French and Languages
Training Engineering for Teaching French as a Foreign Language and Languages
Memoir: « For a Change in the Teaching and Learning Practices of French as a Foreign Language Through the Arts »

2007 - Paul Valéry University – Montpellier III

Master's Degree in Teaching of French As a Foreign Language
Professional Practices in French as a Non-Mother Tongue
Memoir: « Cinema and French as a Foreign Language:“Freedoms are not given, they are taken!" (or How to stop instrumentalizing the 7th art to better learn French and Cinema) »

2005 - Paul Valéry University – Montpellier III

Bachelor's Degree in Cinema (Film Studies)

2005 - Paul Valéry University – Montpellier III

Bachelor's Degree in Modern French Literature

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Anatole Bloomfield

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Professor Bloomfield was first appointed at The American University of Paris in 2000 as a specialist in Business French as well as in teaching French as a Foreign Language and French Culture as a Foreign Culture. He particularly specializes in teaching French as a professional foreign language for business and public administration. He therefore focuses his teaching activities on politics, diplomacy and military issues.

Since 1993, Bloomfield has been developing with passion a particularly dense, structured panel of professional complementary activities/experiences in the field of French as a Foreign Language, both in France and abroad. For instance, he was appointed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to serve during two years, 1994-1995, in the cultural service of the French Embassy at the French Cultural Institute in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland.

Maîtrise des Lettres Classiques (Classical Languages and Literatures), Université de Rouen, Normandie
Licence des Lettres Classiques (Classical Languages and Literatures), Université de Rouen, Normandie
DEA en Didactologie des Langues et des Cultures (Languages and Cultures - Civilizations Learning Studies), Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle

Co-writer and co-director of a series of educational textbooks and CDs, CLE-International Editor (2011 and 2012). This series of textbooks is based and focused on the actional approach in FLE (French as a Foreign Language) learning/teaching.
Co-author of the textbook: DELF B1 Nouveau diplome : 200 activités préparatoires, Collection Le Nouvel Entrainez-vous, published January 2006, CLE International, Paris, First Edition.
Co-author of the textbook: DELF B2: 200 activités préparatoires, Collection Le Nouvel Entrainez-vous, published June 2006, CLE International, Paris, First Edition.
Co-author of the method textbook for Professional French: Affaires à suivre, Hachette-FLE, Paris, April 2001, First, Second, Third Edition.
Author of the pedagogical and instructional guide for teachers in Professional French: Guide pédagogique Affaires à suivre, Hachette-FLE, Paris, Octobre 2001. Official Approval and special partnership of the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris.

Professor Bloomfield's research interests include:

Project in progress : doctoral thesis in linguistics/didactology of languages and cultures, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. Provisional title and subject of thesis : « La problématique des identités culturelles chez un groupe d’apprenants de niveau avancé en français langue étrangère : le cas des publics étudiants étrangers de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Etude d’Anthropologie Culturelle» . (The problematic of cultural identities within a group of advanced level learners in French as a Foreign Language : the specific case of foreign students at the l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Research study in cultural anthropology).
The strategies of use and the operating uses of the immediate environment for teaching and learning a target foreign language, within the context of linguistic immersion: the empirical case of the urban Parisian environment.
The creation of instructional materials in relation to the above problématique.

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Raphael Bloch-Laine

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Senior Lecturer, Department Chair - French Studies & Modern Languages

After graduating from Sciences Po (Paris) with a master's degree in political sciences and civil administration, Raphaël Bloch Lainé entered a curriculum in linguistics and education which resulted in a master’s degree in teaching French as a foreign language. After working for different institutions in Thailand and France, he taught summer courses for graduate students at the French Petroleum Institute (IFP School) and contributed to the edition of digital resources in scientific French, specifically designed for the oil industry. Having served as a primary school teacher for five years, he finally joined The American University of Paris in 2008 to design a new French course for graduate students. He has taught since then all levels of French and co-designed a new introductory course on French culture.

He draws the core ideas of his instructional philosophy from his own experience as a learner and a teacher: learning a foreign language means much more than deciphering new signs and being able to communicate. It challenges perspectives, expands social and intellectual capacities and enables the learners, if they feel secure and confident, to attain new goals.

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Master’s degree in Teaching of French as a Foreign Language, University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne nouvelle
Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, University of Paris 7 – Diderot
Master's degree in Civil Service and Territorial Administration, Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, University of Paris 4 – Sorbonne

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Jean Bardot

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Associate Professor Emeritus of French

Licence, Maîtrise es Lettres, DEA Doctorat es Lettres, Université de Paris
IV-Sorbonne
Certificat d'Histoire de l'Art, Ecole du Louvre

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Frederic Attal

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Professor Attal’s first teaching position at The American University of Paris was in 1996 for the French department. He has also taught French as a foreign language in educational institutions such as ACCORD, a French language school, and at ESLCA, the Parisian business school.

Since he joined the University he has taught a variety of French courses at different levels including classes on the history of Parisian cafés and the famous Parisian department stores, and how to create a French newspaper on the internet. Since 1998 Attal has been a member of the SACEM (society of lyricists and music composers) and has collaborated on a script for the cinema based on a famous French detective novel. He is convinced that various materials such as songs, films, or strip cartoons can be very effective in the language learning process. In December 2010, Attal created a French blog for the department, where students and teachers can exchange and communicate their interests about Parisian life and French culture in general. Attal is also involved in the French Writing Lab which is a weekly workshop that helps students improve their writing skills in advanced French.

Licence, Maîtrise, DEA Lettres Modernes, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle

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Franck Andrianarivo Rakotobe

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Professor Andrianarivo Rakotobe joined the American University of Paris from Emory University where he received his PhD in French in 2021. He also studied at the Université de La Réunion, the University of Sheffield, and the Université François Rabelais of Tours, where he obtained an MA in English studies. Before beginning his doctoral work at Emory, Andrianarivo taught for six years at Harvard University as a Teaching Assistant in French.

Andrianarivo’s research interests include Francophone Indian Ocean, African, and Caribbean literatures, cultures, and films. His current book project investigates famadihana, an ancestral exhumation practice from Madagascar, which he employs metaphorically as a framework for analyzing multigeneric insular narratives of La Réunion, Tromelin, and Martinique, which he studies alongside Madagascar. Using a minor transnational approach to connect these islands with a shared history of transoceanic migration, he analyzes stories of unburials in contemporary fictions, poetry, bande dessinée, and films, in which authors exhume the bodies of insurgents, revolutionaries, slaves, and maroons from the desecrated tombs of oblivion so as to transfer their remains into a new, textually constructed burial site. His articles appear in peer-reviewed journals French Forum and L’Esprit Créateur.

PhD, French, Emory University.
MA, English, Université de Tours.
Licence (BA), English, Université de La Réunion.

Indian Ocean Studies
Caribbean Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Francophone African Cinemas
Migration and Diaspora Studies
Gender Studies
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Global French Studies

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Major Overview

Spoken by over 300 million speakers worldwide, the French language unites many cultures on all continents. Both the vehicle of a French nation that has left its mark on world history, notably through revolutions but also colonizations, and the mode of expression of a civilization which has contributed many thinkers, writers, scientists and artists, it is today the shared heritage of dozens of multicultural nations, in constant interaction with vernacular, regional, or global languages.

Paris is a multi-faceted city: a historical testimony to a centuries-old classical culture with a continuously modern and vibrant artistic scene, the stage of social and political turmoil of a national capital, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. But la Ville Lumière is also a city with well-kept secrets, an ever-changing transnational city sheltering diasporas from the world over, and still a gateway to the Francosphere, to those regions of the world where French is an official or widely spoken language. Hence, ��'s Parisian roots and profound anchoring offer a rare opportunity to give our students access to many other traditions and ethos through the uncovering of this manifold cultural and social hub which is the French capital, and through study trips' explorations within and outside of Paris and France.

The major in French Global Studies provides students with an advanced level of French language skills, a first-hand experience of the multicultural reality of contemporary France, a knowledge of French-speaking societies and artistic productions in Africa, America (including the Caribbean), Asia, Europe and Oceanic spaces (in particular the Indian Ocean's) and an understanding of Francophone worldviews on major contemporary political and societal issues, such as gender, social, sexual and ethnic equalities, ideological and religious tensions, social justice and climate change, migration, and identity backlashes in France and Europe.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to demonstrate proficiency in speaking, writing, reading, and understanding French at an advanced level.
Students will be able to describe how the ethnically diverse Parisians and the culturally diverse French regions creatively reinterpret a common historical and intellectual heritage and open new global perspectives for France.
Students will be able to compare the literatures, cultures, as well as the social and political histories of countries in the Francosphere, including African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Mediterranean, North American, and Oceanic spaces.
Students will be able to use social, historical, political, philosophical, linguistic and artistic resources of the Francophone world to develop critical thinking skills and construct well-formed and informed arguments about global contemporary questions.

Learning Environment

The major offers an immersive and dynamic learning environment that capitalizes on the university's unique location in the heart of Paris. Students gain advanced French language and cultural skills by experiencing the vibrant multiculturalism of contemporary France. The program integrates classroom learning with firsthand exploration of the city's historical, artistic, and social landscapes. Paris serves as a living classroom, where students engage with the diverse diasporas and multifaceted cultural narratives that shape the French capital. Additionally, study trips extend learning beyond Paris, providing insights into French-speaking societies in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean.

Core Courses

French Studies and Modern Languages

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French

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Requirements: French Minor

Improve your French grammar and conversation skills while exploring topics like French culture, French cinema, politics in France, and French acting.

This minor requires the completion of 20 credits.

Required courses (4 or 8 credits)

One or two courses from the following depending on French placement level

FR 2100 French Language and Culture IV (pre-req: FR1300)
FR 2200 French Language and Culture V (pre-req: FR2100)
FR 2500 French Conversation and Composition (pre-req: FR2100)
FR 2550 Advanced Grammar (pre-req: FR2100)

3 or 4 Elective courses (12 or 16 credits)

Three or four courses (depending on French placement level) taught in French (or bilingual), one of which must be at the 3000-level or above.

Examples of such courses include (but are not limited to):

FR/ HI 2002 France in the Modern World
FR 2046 Paris vu par les photographes (new course)
FR/LI 2060 Introduction à la linguistique
FR 2500 French Conversation and Composition (if not taken as a core course)
FR 2550 Advanced Grammar (if not taken as a core course)
FR 2630 L’Entreprise en France
FR/CL 2075 Theater in Paris
FR/DR 2077 Acting in French
FR/CL 2090 Topics in French
FR 2091 Topics in French
FR/CL 2094 French fiction now: traduire le roman français contemporain
FR/CL 3046 Two French Classics (new course)
FR/PO 3053 Politics in France
FR/FM 3086 French Cinema: La Nouvelle Vague
FR/FM 3087 Paris cinéma
FR/PY 3090 Topics in Literature & Psychoanalysis
FR/HI 3090 Topics (Sorbonne)
FR 3091 Topics in French
CL/FR 3400 Literary Translation and Creative Writing

Note: Passing the DELF B2 or DALF C1 diploma is strongly recommended. �� will award one transfer credit for each diploma. The DELF (Diplôme d'études en langue française) and DALF (Diplôme approfondi de langue française) are diplomas awarded by the French Ministry of Education to prove the French-language skills of non-French candidates. Each diploma corresponds at one level established by the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

The American University of Paris - French Studies and Modern Languages

Olivier Crepelliere

Anatole Bloomfield

Raphael Bloch-Laine

Jean Bardot

Frederic Attal

Franck Andrianarivo Rakotobe

Global French Studies

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Requirements: French Minor

Required courses (4 or 8 credits)

3 or 4 Elective courses (12 or 16 credits)