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liliacoropceanu@arizona.edu
Phone
520-621-3797
Office
560 Modern Languages
Office Hours
Fall 2024 Office Hours: TuThFr 11am-12pm and 3:30-4:30pm by appointment on Trellis: https://ua-trellis.force.com/uastudent/s/catcloud/services/calendar/?NetId=liliacoropceanu
or by email: liliacoropceanu@arizona.edu
560 Modern Languages Building or at https://arizona.zoom.us/j/84821773130
Coropceanu, Lilia Lacusta
Senior Lecturer

Lilia holds a M.A. in French and Francophone Literatures from University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in French from Emory University, where she taught for the past several years advanced-level courses in French language, literature and culture, as well as the graduate pedagogy methods seminar. From 2011 to 2020, she served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the French program. She also regularly taught in the Emory French Studies Summer Program in Paris, and has served as the Program Director and Faculty Associate. Lilia Coropceanu has presented her research on second language acquisition and French literature at multiple regional and national professional conferences. In the area of French literature, her research interests include conceptions and techniques of self-constitution in French novelistic narrative (seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth century literature). She is the author of Faber Suae Fortunae : L’autoformation du sujet chez Mme de Lafayette, Marivaux et Stendhal. (New York: Peter Lang, 2010, in series Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures).

Dr. Coropceanu is the Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) for both the French and Italian programs.

Currently Teaching

FREN 433 – Business French I

The basic workings of the French economy and the essential vocabulary and style specific to French business.

FREN 533 – Business French I

The basic workings of the French economy and the essential vocabulary and style specific to French business. Acquire and demonstrate research, theoretical and critical skills in social and business-related topics of their choice. Graduate-level requirements include a choice between working on 1) the portfolio + an additional paper (c. 6 pages) on a topic of their choice; or 2) a longer term paper (c. 12 pages) on a specialized topic of their choice.

FREN 196 – Introductory Career Readiness Seminar for French Students

Students will develop a plan that will help them maximize their educational experience at the UA and delineate the next steps in their trajectory as French majors/minors. Students will prepare for and integrate in their studies leadership/internship/study abroad opportunities (depending on their personal and career goals), learn how to show and tell their professional story and use it for specific purposes (such as scholarship/internship applications, club funding, etc.). They will learn about the transferable skills they will hone in pursuing a French major/minor for the jobs of the future, develop a plan for skill-building experiences, and explore career opportunities.

FREN 302 – Grammar, Usage and Composition

This course stresses written communication. In addition, conversation and reading are targeted as means to inform writing.

FREN 393 – Internship

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.

FREN 498 – Senior Capstone

The senior capstone is designed to offer majors the opportunity to synthesize learning accumulated in the major and to demonstrate that they have met the Major program's stated learning outcomes in Communications, Cultures, Comparisons, Connections, and Communities. Students will learn how to show and tell their story for professional advancement. In addition, students will participate in workshops that are intended to create a bridge between your senior year and life post-college, such as CV/Resume work, graduate application review, gap year planning, panel of past majors, networking, etc).