Fall Quarter 2017

French 001. Elementary French (5 units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

  001

  Emeline Diolot

  MTWRF 8:00-8:50A

  115 Wellman Hall

  44080

  002

  Zach Scovel

  MTWRF 9:00-9:50A

  115 Wellman Hall   44081

  003

  Kyle Patterson

  MTWRF 10:00-10:50A

  115 Wellman Hall   44082

  004

  Kyrie Foster

  MTWRF 11:00-11:50A

  115 Wellman Hall   44083

  005

  Lamia Mezzour-Hodson

  MTWRF 12:10-1:00P

  115 Wellman Hall

  44084

Description: Presentation of the basic grammar and vocabulary of French as well as cultural information about the French-speaking world (textbook chapters 1 to 6); in-class interactive exercises and out-of-class assignments for practice in using the language for listening and reading comprehension, writing, and speaking. French is the exclusive means of communication in class. The course meets five hours per week, with 20-25 students per section. Daily homework assignments are completed using iLrn, an online platform.  Additional materials are posted to Canvas.

Prerequisite: No previous study of French is assumed. Students who have never studied French (or who have had fewer than two years of French in high school and do not place into French 002) should enroll in French 001. Students with two or more years of French in high school may only take this course for a Pass/ No Pass grade.

Course Grade: The final grade for the course will be determined by daily preparation and participation (10%), homework (15%), quizzes (10%), written composition (10%), oral quizzes (5%), oral exam (10%), 6 chapter tests (30%), and comprehensive final exam (10%).

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Discussion - 5 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbook:

  • Kimberly Jansma and Margaret Ann Kassen, Motifs: An Introduction to French Enhanced Package [6th Edition]  (Heinle Cengage, 2013)

French 002. Elementary French (5 units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

  001

  Melanie Barbier

  MTWRF 9:00-9:50A

  217 Olson Hall

  44086

  002

  Aubrey Gabel

  MTWRF 10:00-10:50A

  217 Olson Hall   44087

Description: Presentation of the basic grammar and vocabulary of French as well as cultural information about the French-speaking world (textbook chapters 7 to 11); in-class interactive exercises and out-of-class assignments for practice in using the language for listening and reading comprehension, writing, and speaking. French is the exclusive means of communication in class. The course meets five hours per week, with 20-25 students per section. Course materials (other than the textbook and workbook) and daily homework assignments are available through SmartSite.

Course Grade: The final grade for the course will be determined by daily preparation and participation (10%), homework (15%), quizzes (10%), written composition (10%), oral quizzes (5%), oral exam (10%), 4 chapter tests (30%), and comprehensive final exam (10%).

Prerequisite: French 001 or Language Placement Exam (any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass grade.)

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Discussion - 5 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbook:

  • A. Valdman, C. Pons, and M.E. Scullen, Chez Nous Media Enhanced Package [4th Edition]  (Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014)
     

French 003. Elementary French (5 units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

  001

  Rob Parsley

  MTWRF 9:00-9:50A

  205 Wellman Hall

  44089

  002

  Jai Apate Sharad

  MTWRF 10:00-10:50A

  205 Wellman Hall   44090

Description: Presentation of the basic grammar and vocabulary of French as well as cultural information about the French-speaking world (textbook chapters 12 to 16); in-class interactive exercises and out-of-class assignments for practice in using the language for listening and reading comprehension, writing, and speaking. French is the exclusive means of communication in class. The course meets five hours per week, with 20-25 students per section. Course materials (other than the textbook and workbook) and daily homework assignments are available through SmartSite.

Course Grade: The final grade for the course will be determined by daily preparation and participation (10%), homework (15%), quizzes (10%), written composition (10%), oral quizzes (5%), oral exam (10%), 4 chapter tests (30%), and comprehensive final exam (10%).

Prerequisite: French 002 or Language Placement Exam (any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass grade.)

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Discussion - 5 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbook:

  • A. Valdman, C. Pons, and M.E. Scullen, Chez Nous Media Enhanced Package [4th Edition] (Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014)
     

French 021. Intermediate French (5 units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

  001

  Alex Mendes

  MTWR 9:00-9:50A

  1342 Storer Hall

  44092

  002

  Vanessa Brutsche

  MTWR 11:00-11:50A

  1342 Storer Hall   44093

  003

  Vanessa Brutsche   MTWR 10:00-10:50A   1342 Storer Hall   44094

Description: Presentation and analysis of the cultures of the French-speaking world (Paris, Quebec, Tahiti, Lyon, Northern Africa) and comparison to home culture; review of the basic grammar presented in first-year French; expansion of vocabulary related to city living, history/geography, the arts, food/cooking, and family life (textbook chapters 1 to 5). In-class presentations and activities, as well as out-of-class assignments, are conducted solely in French and focus on the development of listening and reading comprehension, writing, and speaking skills. The course meets four hours per week, plus an additional hour of independent web-based work, with 20-25 students per section. Course materials (other than the textbook and workbook) and daily homework assignments are available through SmartSite.

Course Grade: The final grade for the course will be determined by daily preparation and participation, homework, and one in-class composition per chapter (5 x 13% = 85%), an oral final exam (5%), and a written final exam (10%).

Prerequisite: French 001A or French 003 or Language Placement Exam (any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass grade.)

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbook:

  • Jean Marie Schultz and Marie-Paul Tranvouez, Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections [2nd Edition] Package  (Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014)
     

French 022. Intermediate French (5 units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

Aubrey Gabel

MTWR 11:00-11:50A
217 Olson Hall
CRN 44096

Description: Presentation and analysis of the cultures of the French-speaking world (Senegal, Martinique, Geneva, Strasbourg, Brussels) and comparison to home culture; review of the basic grammar presented in first-year French; expansion of vocabulary related to commerce, tourism, sports and leisure, politics, and modern technology (textbook chapters 6 to 10). In-class presentations and activities, as well as out-of-class assignments, are conducted solely in French and focus on the development of listening and reading comprehension, writing, and speaking skills. The course meets four hours per week, plus an additional hour of independent web-based work, with 25 students per section. Course materials (other than the textbook and workbook) and daily homework assignments are available through SmartSite.

Course Grade: The final grade for the course will be determined by daily preparation and participation, homework, and one in-class composition per chapter (5 x 13% = 85%), an oral final exam (5%), and a written final exam (10%).

Prerequisite: French 021 or Language Placement Exam (any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass grade.)

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbook:

  • Jean Marie Schultz and Marie-Paul Tranvouez, Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections [2nd Edition] Package  (Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014)
     

French 023. Intermediate French (5 units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

Vanessa Brutsche

MTWR 12:10-1:00P
217 Olson Hall
CRN 44098

Description: The goals in this course are to advance your comprehension and use of the French language, with a particular focus on writing skills. Structured reading, analysis, discussion and writing assignments will enable you to increase your vocabulary, improve your oral and aural proficiency, solidify your mastery of grammatical structures, and develop greater ease and sophistication in written and spoken expression.

Prerequisite: French 022 or Language Placement Exam (any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass grade.)

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbooks:

  • Jean Marie Schultz and Marie-Paul Tranvouez, Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections [2nd Edition] Package  (Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014)
  • Jean Anouilh, Antigone  (Table Ronde, 2008)

French 100. Composition in French (4 units)
Aubrey Gabel

MWF 9:00-9:50A
223 Olson Hall
CRN 44106

Course Description: Instruction and practice in expository writing in French, with emphasis on organization, correct syntax, and vocabulary building.

Prerequisite: French 023.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbook:

  • David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen, Writing Analytically [7th Edition]  (Wadsworth Publishing, 2016)

French 107B. Making Modern France (4 units)
Claire Goldstein

TR 12:10-1:30P
1134 Bainer Hall
CRN 44108

Course Description: Read real historical documents, analyze painting and architecture, and re-enact philosophical debates about important social issues in this quarter’s exploration of the political and cultural history of France from the beginning of the seventeenth century through middle of the nineteenth century. Highlights of our survey will include: Henri IV’s edict of Nantes, which ended the French Religious Wars; Versailles and Louis XIV’s cultural and political project of French absolutism; Enlightenment polemics about economic inequality and religious toleration; the revolution of 1789; the rise of Napoleon; and the industrial transformation of Paris in the nineteenth century. We will engage topics such as the role of women and minorities in society and France’s relationship with the broader world as students hone reading, writing, and speaking skills in French.

Prerequisite: French 023 or consent of instructor (cbgoldstein@ucdavis.edu).

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities and Writing Experience.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

  • None
     

French 109. French Phonetics (4 units)
Eric Russell

MWF 11:00-11:50A
290 Hickey Gym
CRN 44110

Course Description: This course will introduce you to phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet, familiarize you with how French sounds are produced alone and in context, and highlight common mistakes made by nonnative speakers of French. We will also discuss the correspondence between written and spoken French, some of the difficulties for Anglophone learners of French, and regional variation in the Francophone world.

This course is likely very different from others you have taken, and you'll be asked to look at language from a more scientific perspective. In additional to French, you should be prepared to discover a great deal about English, other languages and human linguistic production, in general; spoken forms and spelling; formal differences between the "Standard" and other varieties across the French-speaking world.

By the end of the quarter, you should:

  • be able to transcribe, using the IPA, a spoken or written passage
  • be able to describe the sound inventory of French using standard linguistic terminology
  • recognize, understand and exemplify different phonological processes affecting the online ("real-time") production of French utterances
  • recognize, evaluate and correct pronunciation flaws common to English speakers of French.

Prerequisite: French 023 or the equivalent.

GE credit (Old): Social Sciences.
GE credit (New): Social Sciences.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Laboratory - 1 hour.

Textbooks:

  • None
     

French 121. 20th-Century French Novel (4 units)
Jeff Fort

TR 10:30-11:50A
102 Hutchison Hall
CRN 62317

Description: This course will explore a selection of twentieth century narrative works that deal specifically with questions of memory, retrospection, and the reconstruction of the past through language and images. We will consider especially the ways in which the intensity of memory both demands and defies narration, whether it be through an overabundance of remembrance or because of the holes and gaps left in memory, the limits of what can be remembered, or the distortions that are always carried out on the past. Throughout the course we will ask: why and how does memory demand to be written?  And how does the act of writing affect one's relation to the past?

Works to be read include: an excerpt from the beginning of Proust, Du côté de chez Swann; Marguerite Duras, L'amant; Sarah Kofman, Rue Ordener, rue Labat; Patrick Modiano, Chien de Printemps; Annie Ernaux, La honte.

Prerequisite: French 100.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities and Writing Experience.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

  • Patrick Modiano, Chien de Printemps  (Editions de Seuil, 1997)
  • Annie Ernaux, La Honte  (Gallimard, 1999)
  • Marguerite Duras, L'amant  (Editions de Minuit, 1984)
  • Sarah Kofman, Rue Ordener, Rue Labat  (Galilee, 2005)

GRADUATE COURSES


French 200. Introduction to Graduate Study in French (2 units)
Claire Goldstein

T 2:10-4:00P
123 Wellman Hall
CRN 44147

Course Description: The purpose of this seminar is to offer an introduction to methodologies and critical practices in the field of French Studies, including literature, culture, and linguistics. The course will also cover basic principles of bibliographic research in the humanities.  A different faculty member will lead each session.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor (cbgoldstein@ucdavis.edu).

Format: Seminar - 2 hours.

Textbooks:

  • TBA
     

French 202. Moveable Types: The Accessory and the Printed Book in 17th-Century France (4 units)
Claire Goldstein

M 2:10-5:00P
203 Wellman Hall
CRN 62318

Course Description: 17th-century Europe saw a massive proliferation in the consumption of fashion accessories, from wigs and hairpieces to fans and high-heeled shoes. Such small adornments were popularized by two print and commercial innovations – the periodical press and engraved prints. These new media share with accessories they promoted characteristics such as mobility and speed, and the perceived quality of being decorative and contingent, the very opposite of the serious or essential. With a wink to the other great 17th -century innovation, magnification, this graduate seminar will examine the concept of the accessory and practices of accessorizing, locating worn accessories and the logic of the accessory at major fault lines of 17th – century French thought. Through Montaigne, Descartes, Gassendi, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Hobbes we will follow how “accessory” questions resonate through debates and controversies in philosophy, political theory, and aesthetics: Do small things constitute a whole, or do they embellish, decorate, or supplement an essence? What constitutes an integral body, and what a part? What is essential, and what contingent? Fragmentary and aphoristic texts (Pascal, La Rochefoucault, La Bruyère) blur the lines between the decorative and the substantial, and pose the hermeneutic challenge of creating a meaning capable of unifying many moveable details. In plays by Corneille, Racine and Molière, we will look at ways the accessory can become the essence (and vice versa) in poetic figures such as synechdoche, as well as interpretive difficulties posed by accessory personae (Oenone in Racine’s Phèdre) and the accessory function of engravings that illustrate print editions. In fairy tales, descriptions of court festivities, Madame de Villedieu’s picaresque adventure novel, and the extraordinary cross-dressing memoir of the Abbé de Choisy, we will inquire into how accessory practices may transform how we think about the subject in literature.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor (cbgoldstein@ucdavis.edu).

Format: Seminar - 2 hours.

Textbooks:

  • TBA

French 209A. 20th-Century: Prose (4 units)
Jeff Fort

R 2:10-5:00P
111 Wellman Hall
CRN 62319

Course Description: Study of the works of one or several writers of the period.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor (jpfort@ucdavis.edu).

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbook:

  • TBA
     

French 390A. The Teaching of French in College (2 units)
Julia Simon

Day and Time TBA
Location TBA
CRN TBA

Course Description: Course designed for graduate teaching assistants with emphasis on problems and procedures encountered by teachers of lower division classes at the university. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor (jsimon@ucdavis.edu).

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 2 hours.

Textbooks:

  • TBA