Soiree Patinage
Event Date:
Saturday, January 28, 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm EST
Event Location:
Marina Park
Event Contact Name:
Sarah Jacoba
Introduction to Language summer course (LING-0300-ADE)
Event Date:
Friday, July 2, 2021 - 8:30am EDT to Friday, August 13, 2021 - 4:30pm EDT
Event Location:
Online (Web course delivery)
Event Fee:
Please contact Student Central for course fee.
The Department of Languages is planning to offer the following summer course:
- Course: LING-0300 -ADE(Introduction to Language)
- Course details: A general introduction to linguistics, focussing primarily on the structure, acquisition, functions and development of language in social contexts. Among topics for discussion will be: the origins of language, historical change, and language families; the study of meaning and the relationship between words and things; how language is processed in the brain and how languages are learned; communication, cultural identity, language norms, and the uses and abuses of language.
- Start Date: July 2, 2021 (6 weeks, Summer Full-Term)
- End Date: August 13, 2021 (6 weeks, Summer Full-Term)
- Course delivery: Web
Classical Mythology Course (Spring 2021)
Event Date:
Monday, May 3, 2021 - 12:00am EDT to Monday, June 14, 2021 - 12:00am EDT
Event Location:
Online (Web)
Event Fee:
Please contact Student Central for course fee: studentcentral@lakeheadu.ca
Meet the Gods, Goddesses, & Heroes of Ancient Greece & Rome in the Original Ancient Texts!
Read, watch, and listen to the original stories behind characters from Percy Jackson, Hadestown, Age of Mythology, Apotheon, Circe, & modern brand names such as Amazon, Pandora, & Midas.
Meet Hercules, Perseus, Theseus, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Helen of Troy, Jason and the Argonauts, all the Olympians, Andromeda, Echo, Calypso, Eurydice, Niobe, Penelope, and many, many more in the great works of classical antiquity by Hesiod, Homer, Virgil, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, (Pseudo)Apollodorus, and more.
Get the backstory for the Minotaur, Echidna, Typhon, the Cyclops, the Hydra, Cerberus, Centaurs and Nymphs, the Gorgons, the Fates, the Furies, and the Muses. Open to all students!
Want to Learn French?
Event Date:
Monday, May 3, 2021 - 8:30am EDT to Friday, August 13, 2021 - 4:30pm EDT
Event Location:
Online (Web based + Zoom)
Event Fee:
Please contact Student Central for course fees: studentcentral@lakeheadu.ca
FREN-0500-SA: French for Beginners
This course provides an introduction to written and spoken French. Students do exercises in pronunciation, listening comprehension, speaking and basic composition.
Prerequisite: None
Offering: May 3, 2021 - June 14, 2021 (1 Full Course Equivalent)
For more information: jmunding@lakeheadu.ca
FREN-1000-AA: Elementary French
Review of basics and further knowledge development in written and spoken French.
Prerequisite: FREN-0500 or Grade 11 French
Offering: July 2, 2021 - August 13, 2021 (1 Full Course Equivalent)
For more information: ekaufman@lakeheadu.ca
FREN-3603: Littérature Franco-Canadienne
Event Date:
Monday, May 3, 2021 - 12:00am EDT to Monday, June 14, 2021 - 12:00am EDT
Event Location:
Online (Zoom)
Event Fee:
For course fee, please contact Student Central at studentcentral@lakeheadu.ca or by phone at (807) 343-8500.
The Department of Languages will be offering FREN-3603 on Zoom this upcoming spring.
Want to Learn French?
Event Date:
Friday, May 1, 2020 - 8:30am EDT to Thursday, August 13, 2020 - 7:30pm EDT
Event Location:
Lakehead campus
Due to the exceptional circumstances, our Spring and Summer FRENCH courses will be offered online.
We need at least 15 students in order to be able to run these courses. Students interested are strongly encouraged to register before April 13, 2020 for the Spring French for Beginners course.
FRENCH MOVIE NIGHT - Les Vacances du Petit Nicolas
Event Date:
Friday, October 28, 2016 - 7:30pm EDT
Event Location:
UC 1017
Event Contact Name:
Cole Merrifield
Event Contact E-mail:
FRENCH MOVIE NIGHT
Event Date:
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm EDT
Event Location:
UC 1017
French movie
"Incendies"
with English subtitles
CULTURAL EVENING
Event Date:
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 8:00pm to 11:00pm EDT
Event Location:
STUDY
CULTURAL EVENING
Come and join the Department of Languages for an evening of food, music, culture and games. This will be a potluck style evening where all are encouraged to try making a particular dish, beverage or dessert.
FRENCH MOVIE NIGHT
Event Date:
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm EDT
Event Location:
ATAC 2001
French movie
"Rien à déclarer"
with English subtitles
