Winter 2009

Winter 2009 Schedule

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LOWER DIVISION
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FRENCH 1, 2, 3 - Beginning French

FRENCH 1
Instructor: Staff
Supervisor: Prof. Bruce Anderson (&#98canderson

@ucdavis.edu)

5 units: 5 hours in-class sessions

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 2) should enroll in FRE 1. Students with two or more years of French in high school may only take this course for a p/np grade.

Description:
Presentation of the basic grammar and vocabulary of French as well as cultural information about the French-speaking world (textbook chapters 1-6); 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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.

Required Texts:
Amon, E. Muyskens, J. A., & Omaggio Hadley, A. C. (2008). Vis-a-vis (4th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. + paper version of the accompanying workbook/laboratory manual

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%).

 

 

 

FRENCH 2
Instructor: Staff
Supervisor: Prof. Eric Russell (&#101russell

@ucdavis.edu)

5 units:5 hours in-class sessions

Prerequisite:
FRE 1 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French,may take this course for a letter or p/np grade.

Description:
Presentation of the basic grammar and vocabulary of French as well as cultural information about the French-speaking world (textbook chapters 7-11); 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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.

Required Texts:
Amon, E. Muyskens, J. A., Omaggio Hadley, A. C. (2008). Vis-a-vis (4th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. + paper version of the accompanying workbook/laboratory manual

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%).

 

FRENCH 3
Instructor: Staff
Supervisor: Prof. Eric Russell (&#101russell

@ucdavis.edu)

5 units:5 hours in-class sessions

Prerequisite:
FRE 2 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or p/np grade.

Description:
Presentation of the basic grammar and vocabulary of French as well as cultural information about the French-speaking world (textbook chapters 12-16); 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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.

Required Texts:
Amon, E. Muyskens, J. A., Omaggio Hadley, A. C. (2008). Vis-a-vis (4th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. + paper version of the accompanying workbook/laboratory manual

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%).

 

FRENCH 21, 22, 23 - Intermediate French

FRENCH 21
Instructor: Staff
Supervisor: Prof. Bruce Anderson (&#98canderson

@ucdavis.edu)

5 units:4 hours in-class sessions; 1 hour independent, web-based work

Prerequisite:
FRE 3 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or p/np grade.

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 1-5). 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 + 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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.

Required Texts:
Oates, M. D., & Dubois, J. F. (2003). Personnages (3rd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

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%).

 

FRENCH 22
Instructor: Staff
Supervisor: Prof. Bruce Anderson (&#98canderson

@ucdavis.edu)

5 units:4 hours in-class sessions; 1 hour independent, web-based work

Prerequisite:
FRE 21 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or p/np grade.

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 6-10). 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 + 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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.

Required Texts:
Oates, M. D., & Dubois, J. F. (2003). Personnages (3rd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

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%).

 

FRENCH 23
Instructor: Staff
Supervisor: Prof. Bruce Anderson (&#98canderson

@ucdavis.edu)

5 units:4 hours in-class sessions; 1 hour independent, web-based work

Prerequisite:
FRE 22 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or p/np grade.

Description:
Rigourous concentration on writing skills in French in preparation for the major/minor; course assignments relate to the cultural topic of la lacité (the issue of church and state in modern France, religious freedom/tolerance, secularism in French schools). A variety of materials, including written texts, videos, and songs will be analyed and used as sources in the preparation of a dissertation (major course paper). In-class presentations and activities, as well as out-of-class assignments, are conducted solely in French. The course meets four hours per week + an additional hour of independent web-based work, with 20-25 students per section. Course materials and daily homework assignments will soon be available at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.

Required Texts:
Course materials will be available for downloading in PDF format.

Course Grade:
The final grade for the course will be determined by daily preparation and participation, homework, and a major course paper. (Percentages have yet to be determined.)

 

FRENCH 51 - French Literature in Translation
Dead Ends: Stories of Ending and Dying

Jeff Fort
4 units: Lecture - 2 hours; discussion - 1 hour; term paper.
Prerequisite: None.

CRN Days/Time Location

53418

MWF 12:10-1:00

227 Olson

 

Description:
This is an introductory course on French literature dealing with themes of ending and dying: near death experiences, being condemned to and waiting for death, escape from death, return from death, ultimate endings, and ends that just won't stop ending... Along with several literary works (including Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Wall," Albert Camus, The Stranger,, Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies and Endgame, and Maurice Blanchot, Death Sentence) we will watch two films (Chris Marker, La jetée and Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped) in which imprisonment is defined by two extreme limits: the threat of death and the possibility of escape. We will explore how even the most extreme and inevitable limits break down and become ambiguous, together with the complicated temporal structures that arise from the real, present force of what has not happened yet...

This course will be taught in English, and students will read the works in translation and write their papers in English. Note that French majors or minors who would like to receive credit for the major/minor may do so by making arrangements at the beginning of the course to do all reading and written work in French. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.

Texts: Samuel Beckett's, EndgameThree Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable; Camus, The Stranger; Blanchot, Death Sentence.

 

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UPPER DIVISION
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FRENCH 100 - Composition in French
France Lemoine
4 units: 3 hours of lecture; 4 compositions
Prerequisite: Course 23 recommended.

CRN Days/Time Location

35380

MWF 11-11:50am

205 Wellman

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: A course reader.

 

FRENCH 107 - The Making of Modern France
France Lemoine
4 units: Lecture - 3 hours; term paper.
Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor

 

CRN Days/Time Location

53419

MWF 10:00-10:50

205 Wellman

 

Course Content: Introduction to French culture through a historical approach to topics such as the citizen and the state (politics, justice, social security), the nation and centralization, the rise of public education, colonization, class and social relationships. GE Credit: ArtHum.

Texts: Mathiex, Histoire de france.

 

FRENCH 110 - Stylistics and Creative Composition
Daria Roche
4 units: Lecture - 3 hours; frequent papers.
Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor

 

CRN Days/Time Location

53424

TR 9:00-10:20

115 Hoagland

 

Course Content: Intensive course in creative composition using a variety of techniques and literary styles, patterned on Queneau's Exercices de style. Practice in such stylistic modifications as inversion, antithesis, changes in tense, mood, tonality, etc. The writing of poetry.

Texts: Raymond Queneau, Exercices de style.

 

FRENCH 118A - Age of Reason and Revolution
Julia Simon
4 units: Lecture/discussion - 3 hours; term paper.
Prerequisite: French 100, 102, or 103.

 

CRN Days/Time Location

53420

MWF 1:10-2:00

227 Olson

 

Course Content: This course will examine the trajectory of philosophical thought centered on society and political life during the age of Enlightenment that led to the revolution of 1789. We will study famous texts of the Age of Reason of the great philosophes, such as Rousseau, Montesquieu and Diderot, as well as the events of the revolution. Above all, we will examine closely eighteenth-century concepts such as liberty, equality, and citizenship that prefigure the debates of the revolution.
Work for the course will consist of 4 essays of 2-3 pages each on precise topics tied directly to our class readings. In addition, each student will make an oral presentation in class on either an article from the Encyclopédie or an aspect (person, event, key concept) of the French Revolution.

Texts: Poche, La Révolution française; Rousseau, Du contrat social.

 

FRENCH 119B - Realism, History and the Novel
Daria Roche
4 units: Lecture/discussion - 3 hours; term paper.
Prerequisite: French 100, 102, or 103.

 

CRN Days/Time Location

53425

TR 12:10-1:30

115 Veimyr

 

Course Content: Investigation of the narrative and historical codes of French realist fiction, with emphasis on the representation of history in the realist novel, its depiction of social "realities"such as class and gender, and its relation to the historical situation of post-revolutionary society.

Texts: Honore de Balzac, Les Chouans; Gustave Flaubert, L'Education Sentimentale ; Emile Zola, Auguste Dezalay, Jacques Duquesne, Germinal.

 

FRENCH 160 - Topics in French Morphosyntax
Eric Russell Webb
4 units: Lecture/discussion - 3 hours; term paper.
Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor.

 

CRN Days/Time Location

53421

TR 1:40-3:00

148 Phygeo

 

Course Content: Our primary concern in this class is the way French speakers produce the sounds of their language in real speech (as opposed to 'teacher talk' or other non-spontaneous speech forms you may encounter). We will look closely at how sounds change in different contexts and speech styles and at different theories about what is going on in the mind of French speakers when they put sounds, words ansentences together. We will also begin to explore the word structure of French, how words are formed and how meaning is transmitted in speech.
For a full description, please click here.

Texts: A coursepack will be used.

 

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GRADUATE COURSES
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FRENCH 209A - 20th Century Prose
Samuel Beckett's Prose

Jeff Fort
4 units: 3 hour seminar.

CRN Days/Time Location

53663

W 3:10-6:00

322 Sproul

 

Course Content: The seminar will focus on the longer prose works that Beckett originally wrote in French. Much of our time will be spent on the extraordinary "early trilogy" of novels, Molloy, Malone Meurt, and L'innommable -- "novels" which begin by leaving the conventional novel far behind and end with something resembling its complete and utter destruction. We will also read Comment c'est as well as the "late trilogy" of shorter prose works to which Beckett gave the collective title Nohow On: Compagnie, Mal Vu Mal Dit and Worstward Ho (this last was written in "English" (if one can call it that...) and was not translated by Beckett himself; therefore we will read it in its original version). In addition to the question of the novel's destruction and/or deconstruction, we will also address the issue of "failure," on which Beckett so insisted; the nature of fictive language as it is pushed to the extremes of intelligibility; the difficulties and paradoxes that arise when the act of "creation" is explicitly integrated into the texture of the created fictive world; the apparently derisory religious allegories one finds in these works; the paradoxes and aporias of subjectivity and the self-seeking voice; the radical extension and "critique" of the Cartesian cogito; the torture of language and the hellishness of fictional otherworlds (and the echoes of Dante heard in them); the stubbornness of self-reference nd the impossibility of escaping autobiographical residues in even the most impersonal prose; the tremendous importance of the literary task and of the poetic articulation of a singular experience, despite it all. We will look at a minimal number of critical works on Beckett, by authors such as Maurice Blanchot, Alain Badiou, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, as well as some early critical writings by Beckett himself. Note that lectures and discussion will be in English and the course will be open to students from outside the French department who may wish to read the works in Beckett's English translations. Some French is recommended for such students, but not required. (This will also allow us to address some of the questions concerning bilingualism and self-translation posed by Beckett's work.)

Texts: Samuel Beckett's, Comment C'estMal Vu Mal DitMalone meurtMolloy, and L'innommable.

 

FRENCH 250A - French Phonology & Morphology 
Eric Russell Webb
4 units
Prerequisite: French 159, 160, or consent of instructor.

CRN Days/Time Location

53423

TR 1:40-3

148 Phygeo

 

Course Content: Our primary concern in this class is the way French speakers produce the sounds of their language in real speech (as opposed to 'teacher talk' or other non-spontaneous speech forms you may encounter). We will look closely at how sounds change in different contexts and speech styles and at different theories about what is going on in the mind of French speakers when they put sounds, words ansentences together. We will also begin to explore the word structure of French, how words are formed and how meaning is transmitted in speech.
For a full description, please click here.

Texts: A coursepack will be used.

 

FRENCH 291 - Foreign Language Learning
Carlee Arnett
4 units
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

 

CRN Days/Time Location

35453

M 12:10-3

144 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 instruction; (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; and complete a final exam.

Texts: A course packet.