Cecilia Francis teaches the following Francophones literature courses and French language, literature and civilization courses at St. 蜜桃視頻_蜜桃視頻APP_蜜桃視頻官网:

FREN 1026.  Langue française 2

FREN 1556.  Introduction aux textes

FREN 2326.  La composition

FREN 2113.  Découverte de la prose et du cinéma

FREN 2306.  Textes 2 : la francophonie    

FREN 3613.  Civilisation francophones 2 : Amérique française

FREN 3623.  Civilisation francophones 3 : Maghreb 

FREN 4543.  Tout feu tout flamme

FREN 3653.  La nouvelle francophones  

FREN 4523.  Les meilleures nouvelles des 20^e et 21^e siècles  

Dr. Francis has supervised and mentored students as fourth-year Honours Thesis Director for FREN 4996. Thèse de spécialisation. She has been nominated by her students for The John McKendy Memorial Teaching Award on three separate occasions during her career at St. 蜜桃視頻_蜜桃視頻APP_蜜桃視頻官网.

She served as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages (2012-2015) and acts as Majors and Honours faculty advisor (2012-2015, 2016-2019), coordinator for French Monitors (2012-2015, 2018-2019), Troubadours (2012-2015) and the Certificat de compétence en français.

Dr. Francis is the coordinator for the Canada Council Arts funded annual Francophones Guest Writer series. In conjunction with colleagues teaching in neighbouring universities, she has assumed leadership in hosting the following internationally and nationally acclaimed writers: Dany Laferrière, Kim Thúy, Abla Farhoud, Suzanne Jacob, France Daigle, Hérménégilde Chiasson, Emma Haché, Jacques Savoie, Nicolas Dickner, Perrine Leblanc, Jocelyne Saucier, Diane Léger, Rose Després.

Cecilia Francis reflects on her university-level teaching:

In developing my courses, I investigate innovative ways that can assist students in their understanding of complex ideas and concepts. In my classes, students discover a wide range of literary and cultural works stemming from the French-speaking world that are provocative and challenging, while at the same time remaining accessible.

I devise teaching and mentoring strategies so as to help students develop their critical thinking skills and provide them with motivation in order to achieve strong literacy and communication levels in French. Yearly pedagogical events include meeting francophones writers in a classroom setting and visiting the Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne in Fredericton.

Some of my favorite teaching moments are when I am explaining the Djamila Boupacha affair involving Gisèle Halimi and Simone de Beauvoir, occurring during the Algerian War of Independence, and lecturing on literary works by Anne Hébert, Michel Marc Bouchard, Malika Mokeddem, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Dalila Kerchouche. In the way of culture, my students have enjoyed studying topics ranging from the history of Montmartre and the Lumière brothers’ cinematographic discoveries to literary movements and aesthetics such as Négritude and Souffles.