Master MEEF Professeur de Lycées et Collèges Lettres Modernes

• Preparing for the written and oral tests of the CAPES external exam in Modern Literature
• Preparing you for your career as a French teacher in secondary schools, via in-depth subject courses, professional courses linked to research and a large number of work placements
• Introduction to research in didactics and/or educational sciences

• Acquire a common professional culture for teachers and educational staff
• Playing an active role in the education community
• Taking account of the diversity of students
• Becoming more professional and acting in context
• Mastering digital tools and using digital technology in teaching
• Proficiency in a foreign language at CEFR B2 level
• Mastering the French language to communicate and teach

Subject-specific skills: more in-depth study of French literature and language

• Interpret texts based on literary history and theoretical and critical approaches to literature: knowledge of genres, the question of representation, the process of literary creation, the relationship between author and text, text and reader, author and reader, aesthetic variations and the theoretical foundations of these variations.
• Be familiar with the literary works on the CAPES, secondary school and French and international literature syllabuses, so as to be able to take part in exams on general and comparative literature.
• Master the exercises needed for studying and teaching literature at secondary level: explication de texte, dissertation, commentary on a text, etc.
• Study language by synthesising various grammatical approaches, both synchronically and diachronically
• Study the style of literary texts in greater depth
• Interpret still and moving images, drawing on art history and theoretical and technical approaches to the visual arts and film.

Teaching and educational skills

• To be familiar with the history of teaching and the current scientific foundations of approaches to literature and language
• be familiar with critical and theoretical variations in research into literature and the didactics of French, in particular the didactics of speaking, reading, writing, literature and the study of language
• Designing and implementing French teaching sessions for collège and lycée classes
• Develop annual progressions and teaching sequences for lower and upper secondary school classes

Career opportunities

• French teacher in secondary school
• Teacher in vocational secondary schools: literature - English; literature - history - geography
• Further study at doctoral level
• Career development: agrégation

Sectors of activity

• Teaching
• Research in general or comparative literature or in the teaching of French