Spring 2017

LOWER DIVISION COURSES


 

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

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

 001

 Jai Sharad Apate

 MTWRF 8:00-8:50A

 244 Olson Hall

 73722

 002

 Poonam Vaya

 MTWRF 9:00-9:50A

 244 Olson Hall  73723

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. Course materials (other than the textbook and workbook) and daily homework assignments are available through SmartSite.

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 (14%), homework (12%), three quizzes (15%), one major composition (10%), three in-class exams (30%), and a final exam (19%).

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

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

 001

 Robert Parsley

 MTWRF 9:00-9:50A

 229 Wellman Hall

 73724

 002

 Kathleen Brennan

 MTWRF 11:00-11:50A

 229 Wellman Hall  73725

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 (14%), homework (10%), three quizzes (15%), one major composition (10%), two in-class exams (25%), a final oral exam (6%), and a final written exam (20%).

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

 Ryan Gallant

 MTWRF 9:00-9:50A

 207 Olson Hall

 73726

 002

 Mara Couch

 MTWRF 10:00-10:50A

 207 Olson Hall  73727
 003

 Kyle Patterson

 MTWRF 8:00-8:50A  207 Olson Hall  73728
 004

 Lamia Mezzour-Hodson

 MTWRF 11:00-11:50A  207 Olson Hall  73729

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 (14%), homework (10%), three quizzes (15%), one major composition (10%), two in-class exams (25%), a final oral exam (6%), and a final written exam (20%).

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

Emeline Diolot

MTWR 10:00-10:50A
229 Wellman Hall
CRN 73730

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

Melanie Barbier

MTWR 11:00-11:50A
192 Young Hall
CRN 73731

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

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

 001

 Kirsten Zehring

 MTWR 9:00-9:50A

 293 Kerr Hall

 73732

 002

 Alexandrine Mailhe

 MTWR 10:00-10:50A

 261 Olson Hall  73733

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)
     

 UPPER DIVISION COURSES


French 100. Composition in French (4 units)
Toby Warner

MWF 10:00-10:50A
80 Social Sciences Building
CRN 73759

Course Description: The primary goal at this level is to introduce students to the study of literature in French, which consists of two related introductions: to literature written in French and also to the critical study of literature. This is where French class becomes a literature class (i.e., the focus will be on literature and thus its language, but not on the foreignness of the language). Together we will read and discuss a variety of works, including novels, poetry, comics, essays and films. Students will develop interpretative and analytical skills with broad applicability and practice writing in French in a clear and persuasive manner. We will encounter a variety of expository and analytical writing styles, and emphasize 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.

Textbooks:

  • TBA
     

French 128. French Rap and Hip Hop Culture (4 units)
Julia Simon

TR 9:00-10:20A
1128 Hart Hall
CRN 91107

Course Description: This course will trace the emergence of the French hip-hop movement and especially French rap as a means of studying sound culture.  We will read analytical texts on culture and history and will study the songs from the end of the 1970s up to the present day.  We will study the "banlieue" and gendered and ethnic identities as they are reflected in hip-hop culture (rap, DJing, dance, graffiti, style).  Because our analysis will focus mostly on sound performance, we will also work on French pronunciation, especially prosody.  

The work for this course will consist of recorded assignments--recitation of songs--and written critical analyses of songs.  The culminating project for the course will be the writing and recording of a rap song (or slam poem).

(French 128 may be repeated for credit up to one time when the topic differs.)

Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor (jsimon@ucdavis.edu).

GE credit (Old): None.
GE credit (New): Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Writing.

Textbooks:

  • TBA
     

French 141.

Section 001. War, Memory and Narration in Fiction and Film (4 units)
Jeff Fort

TR 12:10-1:30P
116 Veihmeyer Hall
CRN 73763

Course Description: This course will explore narratives of war and memory, with particular attention to post-war experiences of trauma, forgetting, and the disruptive or productive return of the past into the present. Questions to be explored in the context of these narratives include: How do extreme or violent experiences linger long after they have occurred, and what are the difficulties and paradoxes of recounting or representing them? How can a faulty or incomplete memory be placed into language? In what ways can the present be inhabited or haunted by the past? How do memories return to take vengeance on those who would prefer to forget? How is identity formed or disrupted by memories, or by their lack? How can the attempt to recount a past experience change one's relation to it? How are both war and memory related to technology (including the technology of films and books…)? What does the end of the world have to do with the power of memory and/or its failure? The course material includes texts and films referring especially to World War II, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust, as well as the Algerian War of Independance, and to unspecified or imagined catastrophes that spell the end of the world as we know it.

Readings and films include:

Maurice Blanchot, L’instant de ma mort (récit)
Chris Marker, La jetée (film + texte)
Marguerite Duras / Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour (film + livre)
Philippe Grimbert, Un secret (livre + film)
Michael Haneke, Caché (film)

(French 141 may be repeated for credit up to two times when the topic differs.)

Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor (jpfort@ucdavis.edu).

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

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

  • TBA

Section 002. Revision, Rewriting, Restaging (4 units)
Toby Warner

MWF 12:10-1:00P
209 Wellman Hall
CRN 91110

Course Description: In this course we will explore novels, plays and films that rewrite, revise or restage other, earlier works. Our class will be arranged around three pairings of “original” texts and their “rewritten” counterparts. These will include Aimé Césaire’s play Une Tempête, which is a rewriting of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest; Kamel Daoud’s novel Merseault, contre-enquête, a reply to Albert Camus’ L’Etranger; and Abdellatif Kechiche’s film L’Esquive, which restages the play Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard by Pierre de Marivaux. In each case, we will work comparatively in order to trace how plots, scenes, and characters have traveled through time and found different resonances in new circumstances. In our readings, conversations, and assignments, we will explore revision from two angles: as a sign of the weight of the past on the present, but also as an attempt to carve out space to imagine and stage new futures. In keeping with our theme, students in this course will write and revise their own essays to practice both composition and literary analysis.

(French 141 may be repeated for credit up to two times when the topic differs.)

Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor (tdwarner@ucdavis.edu).

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

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

  • TBA

French 162. History of the French Language (4 units)
Eric Russell

TR 1:40-3:00P
148 Physics Building
CRN 91108

Description: This course will familiarize you with the evolution of French as both social and linguistic phenomena, as well as provide you a solid foundation in the history of Romance in Western Europe. You will discover how the concept of “French” took shape over time, beginning from its roots in Vulgar Latin, through the Medieval period, and then emerged throughout the early modern period in its standardized, codified form, becoming used in a wide range of functions. In so doing, you will learn more about the tensions between linguo-cultural promotion and imposition, for example discovering how French’s expansion took place alongside the suppression of numerous local languages. At the same time, you will gain a broad understanding of the changing linguistic forms and structures of the language that has come to be called “French”: you will learn about the ways that vocabulary, sounds, and grammatical patterns evolved from period-to-period, as well as how the language has been enriched through contact with others. Finally, you will gain a broad, general understanding of the geography and history of Francophone Europe, especially as this is applicable to the evolution of languages within these physical and geographic spaces. All course sessions will be conducted in French: this includes small group and partner work, lectures, and exercises.

Prerequisite: French 100 or Linguistics 001.

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

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

  • TBA
     

 GRADUATE COURSES


French 201. History of the French Language (4 units)
Eric Russell

TR 1:40-3:00P
148 Physics Building
CRN 91109

Description: This is the graduate option of French 162, and as such, will have additional readings and assignments. (please see the French 162 course description above)

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

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

  • TBA

French 207A. 18th Century Literature: Philosophies (4 units)
Julia Simon

M 2:10-5:00P
522 Sproul Hall
CRN 91169

Course Description: This course proposes to examine the dialectical relationship between individual and community in the social and political thought of eighteenth-century France. Readings of literary and non-literary texts will analyze the conflict between upholding the rights and freedoms of the individual and the rights and freedoms of the community.  Through the study of these Enlightenment texts, we will trace the development of liberal political thought in the articulation of various visions of democratic community.  Secondary readings in political science, philosophy and the history of ideas.

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

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes  (Flammarion, 2012)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social  (Flammarion, 2011)
  • Sade, La philosophie dans le boudoir  (Folio, 1976)
  • Denis Diderot, Entretien d'un pere avec ses enfants  (Flammarion, 2014)

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

Time TBA
Location TBA
CRN 73885

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

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

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 2 hours.

Textbooks:

  • TBA