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LOWER DIVISION
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FRENCH 1, 2, 3 - Elementary French
Bruce Anderson in charge
5 units: 5 hours in class sessions
Prerequisite:
No previous study of French is assumed. Students who have had fewer
than two years of French in high school and who do not place in French
2 should enroll in French 1.
Description:
Communicative, interactive presentation of
vocabulary, grammar, and culture. Daily drills, oral and written
practice. Pair and small-group work. Creative, process-writing
composition exercises. Strategies for reading in French. Three one-hour
chapter exams, one composition, one oral exam (French 3 only), and a
comprehensive final exam. French is the exclusive means of
communication. The course meets five hours per week, with 25 students
per section. Language lab assignments are woven into written workbook
assignments.
Required Texts:
Amon, Muyskens, Omaggio Hadley, Vis-r-vis (2nd edition), McGraw-Hill
Branon, Bell Rochester, Westphal, Workbook/Laboratory Manual to Accompany Vis-r-vis , McGraw-Hill (Includes CD-ROM)
Course Grade:
The final grade for the course (for FRE 1,2,3) will be determined by the following guidelines:
Preparation/Participation: 18%
Homework: 12%
In-Class Exams: 40%
Composition: 10%
Final Exam: 20%
100%
FRENCH 1
Course Content:
Covers Chapters 1-5 of Vis-r-vis.
Pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. Grammatical structures
include: definite and indefinite articles, -er verbs, negation, être,
placement and forms of adjectives, yes/no questions, prepositions à and
de, -ir verbs, avoir, possessive adjectives, aller, faire, -re verbs.
Functional Goals:
* Greetings and identifying people
* Talking about seasons and the weather
* Talking about the campus, classes, and leisure-time activities
* Describing people and things
* Getting information
* Saying where people and things are
* Talking about daily activities
* Describing your residence
* Expressing negation
* Indicating possession
* Talking about family
* Talking about future plans
FRENCH 2
Course Content:
Covers Chapters 6-10 of Vis-r-vis.
Pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. Grammatical structures
include: partitive articles, prendre, boire, imperative, demonstrative
adjectives (ce, cet, cette, ces), vouloir, pouvoir, devoir,
quel(le)(s), dormir and similar verbs, venir, passé composé, imparfait,
direct/indirect object pronouns, expressions of negation.
Functional goals:
* Talking about food and drink
* Expressing quantity
* Giving commands
* Telling time
* Pointing out people and things
* Expressing desire, ability, and obligations
* Asking about choices
* Describing people and things
* Talking about the past
* Expressing wishes and polite requests
* Expressing negation
* Speaking succinctly
FRENCH 3
Course Content:
Covers Chapitre 11-16 of Vis-r-vis.
Pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. Grammatical structures
include: passé composé and imparfait (cont.), pronouns y and en,
savoir, connaître, voir, croire, pronominal verbs, double object
pronouns, adverbs, comparative and superlative of adjectives, the
future tense, relative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, the present
conditional, prepositions after verbs, comparative and superlative
(cont.), the subjunctive.
Functional Goals:
* Describing the past
* Speaking succinctly
* Expressing knowing
* Expressing observations and beliefs
* Describing past events
* Emphasizing and clarifying
* Expressing actions
* Reporting everyday events
* Expressing reciprocal actions
* Making comparisons
* Talking about the future
* Linking ideas
* Getting information
* Being polite, speculating
* Expressing subjectivity
* Saying how to do something
FRENCH 21 - Intermediate French
Simone Monnier Clay in charge
5 units: 5 hours of lecture/discussion and 1 hour of laboratory
Prerequisite: French 3
Course Goals:
This is the first course in a three-course second-year program designed
to build on elementary grammar and vocabulary acquired in the
first-year sequence. French 21 exposes students to increasingly
difficult or complex grammatical structures and idiomatic usages,
builds a broader vocabulary, and provides opportunities for discussion
and oral practice. The main emphasis will be on developing
communication, writing and reading skills. There will be reading and
discussion of French Literature. Grades will be based on three exams,
four compositions, workbook exercises, class participation, and the
final exam.
Texts:
Oates/Dubois, Personnages, 2nd edition
Oates/Dubois Personnages, workbook
Monnier-Clay, La Grammaire Pratique
Hirsch Thompson, Moments Litteraires
Grading and Course Requirements:
Attendance & Participation: 15%
Homework and Lab: 15%
Exams: 30%
Compositions: 20%
Final Exam: 20%
FRENCH 22 - Intermediate French
Simone Monnier Clay in charge
5 units: 5 hours of lecture/discussion and 1 hour of laboratory
Prerequisite: French 21
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
46092, 46093 |
MTWRF 9-9:50, 12:10-1pm |
125 Olson 1344 Storer |
Course Goals:
A continuation of French 21. Focus on more difficult grammatical
concepts. Continued emphasis on communication, writing and reading.
Reading and discussion of French literature. Lab work is mandatory.
Grades will be based on four tests, four compositions, workbook,
participation journal, and a final.
Texts:
Oates/Dubois, Personnages, 2nd edition
Oates/Dubois Personnages, workbook
Monnier-Clay, La Grammaire Pratique
Hirsch Thompson, Moments Litteraires
Camus, La Etranger
Grading and Course Requirements:
Attendance/Participation: 15%
Homework and Lab: 15%
Exams: 30%
Compositions: 20%
Final Exam: 20%
FRENCH 23 - Intermediate French
Simone Monnier Clay in charge
5 units: 5 hours of lecture/discussion and 1 hour of laboratory
Prerequisite: French 22
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
46094 |
MTWRF 9-9:50am |
207 Olson |
Course Goals:
A continuation of French 22. Focus on advanced grammatical concepts.
Continued emphasis on communication writing and reading. Reading and
discussion of a novel, as an initiation to literary analysis. Grades
will be based on three tests, four compositions, workbook,
participation, a journal, and a final. Lab attendance is mandatory.
Texts:
Oates/Dubois, Personnages, 2nd edition
Oates/Dubois Personnages, workbook
Monnier-Clay, La Grammaire Pratique
Hirsch Thompson, Moments Litteraires
Camus, La Etranger
Monnier-Clay, Guide daanalyse
Grading and Course Requirements:
Attendance/Participation: 15%
Homework and Lab: 15%
Exams: 30%
Compositions: 20%
Final Exam: 20%
FRENCH 51 - Major Works in French Literature
Jeff Fort
4 units
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
64349 |
TR 1:40-3pm |
244 Olson |
Course Goals:
This course will offer an introduction to the study of literature through a selection of works by French authors in translation. The main components of the course work will be 1) a thorough reading of the assigned texts, 2) in-class discussion, and 3) three essays on topics related to the readings. Students will also participate in small group discussions that will focus on particular questions. The theme of the course is "Love and its Shadow." Readings will include novels and short stories from the 19th and 20th centuries: Benjamin Constant, Adolphe; Stendhal, "Vanina Vanini"; Colette, Cheri; Jean-Paul Sartre, "Intimacy"; Maurice Blanchot, Death Sentence; Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein.
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UPPER DIVISION
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FRENCH 100 - Composition in French
Simone Monnier Clay
4 units: 3 hours of lecture; 4 compositions
Prerequisite: Course 23 recommended.
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
46120 |
MWF 12:10-1pm |
163 Olson |
Course Goals:
This course is intended to teach upper
division students to write clear expository French with correct syntax,
clear organization, and with some degree of sophistication in the use
of French vocabulary. Several compositions will be written based on
subjects discussed in class which include:
* Formal writing in French
* Choosing a title
* Outlines, logic & organization in writing
* Critical analysis of articles
* Text analysis of articles and literary material:analysis of poems, analysis of a play, analysis of short stories
Texts:
Laecriture et laanalyse de texte par la pratique, Monnier-Clay
FRENCH 101 - Introduction to French Poetry
Nicole Asquith
4 units
Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
64392 |
TR 12:10-1:30pm |
147 Olson |
Course Content:
FRENCH 108 - Modern French Culture
Elizabeth Constable
4 units
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
64393 |
MWF 10-10:50am |
7 Wellman |
Course Content:
Practices of consumption are processes of self-construction. What people consume; how they consume, whey they consume; whether they consume along or with others; and whether or not they consume: these are all ways people construct identities. At the collective level, processes of consumption constitute social relations, and inform us about cultural values.
This course focuses on two everyday practices of consumption in twentieth-century French and Francophone cultures; cuisine and fashion. Our course objective is to analyze HOW and WHY people dress or eat in a particular way, and to ask what those practices and attitudes tell us about the evolving character of twentieth-century French and Francophone cultures of consumption. Starting from a historical overview of major trends in food cultures and fashion cultures in twentieth-century French and Francophone cultures, the course will focus on specific historical contexts and events in the histories of food and fashion cultures. Special topics will include the following: the early twentieth-century rise of the restaurant guide industry with the birth of the Guide Michelin; Americanization of French culture in the 1950's; May 1968 and the political and culinary revolutions of nouvelle cuisine; critiques of consumption on the wake of 1968; Paris and transnational consumption of fashion in the Francophone world.
Our objects of study will include fiction (short stories, short novels), films, and critical texts. Our modes of study will include collaborative group projects, class discussion, regular weekly writing assignments, and brief class lectures. Students will be required to view five films in Hart Hall outside of class time.
Required Films:
Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast, Marco Ferreri's La Grande Bouffe, Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle, and Agnes Varda's Les Glaneuses
Required Texts for purchase:
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies
Rochefort, Christiane, Les Petits Enfants du Siecle (1967)
Ross, Kristin. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1996)
Course Reader (available at Navins)
FRENCH 109 - French Phonetics
Eric Russell Webb
4 units
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
64394 |
TR 1:40-3pm |
267 Olson |
Course Content:
This course will familiarize you with the International Phonetic Alphabet, introduce you to phonetic transcription (focusing on French and, to a lesser extent, American English), and overview the differences between Standard French pronunciation and that of regional varieties and registers. We will also discuss the correspondence between written and spoken French, auto segmental ("above the segment") alterations that affect how French sounds are produced in context, and some of the difficulties for Anglophone learners of French.
By the end of the quarter, you should:
- be able to transcribe, based on normative French pronunciation, a spoken or written passage, using the IPA;
- be able to describe the sound inventory of French, using standard linguistic terminology;
- recognize, understand and exemplify different phonological processes affecting the on-line ("real-tome") articulation of French.
FRENCH 115 - Medieval French Literature
Noah Guynn
4 units
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
44107 |
TR 3:10-4:30pm |
102 Hutchison |
Course Content:
This course offers an introduction to French and Provençal literature
of the High Middle Ages (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) and will
focus specifically on short fiction, including the lai, the nouvelle, and the fabliau.
The course will focus on two principal goals: (1) to acquire a broad
understanding of medieval vernacular literature in its social,
political, and cultural contexts; and (2) to improve analytical skills
and expository writing. There will be two 3-4-page papers and a final
exam. Classroom activities will include seminar-style discussions,
small group work, and occasional lectures. Class participation (which
includes attendance) represents a significant portion of the final
grade (20%).
FRENCH 125 - French Literature and Other Arts
Simone Clay
4 units
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
65164 |
MWF 10-10:50am |
233 Wellman |
Course Content:
FRENCH 161 - Modern French Syntax
Bruce Anderson
4 units
Prerequisite: Course 160.
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
64456 |
MWF 1:10-2pm |
167 Olson |
Course Content:
This course introduces students to a particular theory of syntax and to the syntactic analysis of French based on that theory. We will look in particular at a number of word order rules - those typically used to describe Modern French syntax in first- and second-year textbooks - and use syntactic analysis in an attempt to explain why such rules are formulated as they are, why they should differ from English, and what this might tell us about the representation of language (in general) in the human mind. The course will consist of three weekly lectures based on readings in a course reader paired with a group study of the syntactic features found in Philippe Labro's novel L'etudiant etranger (1986). The final course grade will be based on homework assignments, class participation, three short quizzes, and a term paper. It is strongly recommended that students enrolling in this course have already taken at least one of the following courses: FRE 105 (Advanced French Grammar), LING 1, LING 103B, or LING 131.
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GRADUATE COURSES
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FRENCH 204 - Medieval Literature
Noah Guynn
4 units: 3 hours of lecture; seminar
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
25285 |
W 3:10-6pm |
422 Sproul |
A reading knowledge of French is useful but not required. All class sessions will be conducted in English, and students from all departments and disciplines are welcome.
This course will examine the dynamic interplay between parody and satire in late medieval and early modern French drama. Drawing on a variety of critics and theorists, most notably Mikhail Bakhtin, we will seek to define parody and attire, and to establish their different social, political, ethical, and/or religious belief. We will begin the term by discussing medieval farce, including the undisputed masterpiece of the genre, La farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin. We will consider the various forms of satire at work in farce, including religious satire (which is interested in moral values and belief) and social satire (which is interested in gender and class). We will also focus our attention on the fundamental ambivalence of parody in farce: it seeks simultaneously to degrade or devalue the culture it represents and to regenerate or transform it. In the second half of the course, we will turn to the work of Moliere, whose comedies, though written for an aristocratic audience, are heavily indebted to medieval popular traditions, most notably farce. As we shall see, Moliere's debt is not simply stylistic or aesthetic but social and political as well. We will read several of the comedies morales and comedies-ballets and will approach them from two different, and seemingly incompatible, perspectives. On the one hand, they are satires that aim to stabilize social roles and moral norms, to correct eccentricity and to teach conformity, and to promote absolutist rule. On the other hand, they are densely parodic works in which social, political, and ethical meaning is profoundly ambiguous and in which the absolute monarch and the values he embodies are not exempt from ridicule and critique.
Requirements for the course:
One 20-minute oral presentation
Two brief papers (7-10pp)-OR--one long research paper (20 pp)
Book Order:
Anonymous, La face de Maitre Pierre Pathelin, ed. Jean Dufournet (Flammarion) 2080704621
Anonymous, Farces du Moyen Age, ed. Andre Tissier (Flammarion) 2080704125
Moliere, Oeuvres completes (Editions du Seuil) 2020007096
FRENCH 213 - Rimbaud and His Afterlives
Nicole Asquith
4 units: seminar
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
64637 |
T 2:10-5pm |
422 Sproul |
Course Content:
From the Surrealists to Bob Dylan, the 68ards to Patti Smith and punk, Rimbaud's influence cut a wide swath across the cultural landscape of the twentieth century. This seminar will examine his unusual legacy, paying particular attention to the question of poetry's social and political engagement with which Rimbaud has been uniquely associated. It will consider his impact both on literary avant-garde movements, such as Surrealism and Tel Quel, and popular culture, challenging distinctions between the two. Writers/artists whose work we will consider include: Andre Breton, Hugo Ball, Jean Paulhan, Maurice Blanchot, Guy Debord, Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg, Jim Morrison and Patti Smith.
FRENCH 291 - Foreign Language Learning in the Classroom (Also GER/SPA 291)
Bruce Anderson
| CRN |
Days/Time |
Location |
65326 |
M 2:10-5pm |
261 Olson |
Course Content:
This course will provide an overview of approaches to university-level foreign language instruction in the United States and the theoretical notions underlying current trends in classroom practices across commonly taught foreign languages. Course objectives are the following: (1) to acquaint students with issues and research in foreign language teaching; (2) to show ways of using that research to achieve more effective classroom teaching and testing; (3) to develop students' skills in evaluating teaching performance and instructional materials; and (4) to prepare students for continued professional development, including the use of technology in the classroom. Class meetings will be devoted to lectures by the course instructor and invited guest speakers, student-led discussion, and short presentations and/or demonstrations by students and the instructor. Students will use professional journals to explore topics of interest; prepare their own classroom materials; evaluate the instructional materials developed by others; complete an on-campus technology workshop of their choice; and complete a final exam. A reading packet will be available for purchase at Navin's copyshop.
