Winter 2017

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

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

001

Mara Couch

MTWRF 9:00-9:50A

1120 Hart Hall

25195

002

Sammi Wong

MTWRF 10:00-10:50A

1120 Hart Hall 25196

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

Ryan Gallant

MTWRF 8:00-8:50A

25 Wellman Hall

25197

002

Jai Apate

MTWRF 9:00-9:50A

25 Wellman Hall 25198
003

Rob Parsley

MTWRF 10:00-10:50A 25 Wellman Hall 25199
004

Kathleen Brennan

MTWRF 11:00-11:50A 25 Wellman Hall 25200
005

J. Baron / M. Barbier

MTWRF 12:10-1:00P 141 Olson Hall 25201

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

Kyle Patterson

MTWRF 11:00-11:50A

261 Olson Hall

25202

002

Lamia Mezzour-Hodson

MTWRF 12:10-1:00P

261 Olson Hall 25203

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

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

001

Kirsten Zehring

MTWR 9:00-9:50A

235 Wellman Hall

25204

002

Emeline Diolot

MTWR 10:00-10:50A

235 Wellman Hall 25205

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

Section

Instructor

Days/Times

Location

CRN

001

Poonam Vaya

MTWR 10:00-10:50A

251 Olson Hall

25206

002

Melanie Barbier

MTWR 11:00-11:50A

251 Olson Hall 25207

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

Mrin Bhattacharya

MTWR 12:10-1:00P
251 Olson Hall
CRN 25208

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)
Alexandrine Mailhe

MWF 10:00-10:50A
102 Hutchison Hall
CRN 25233

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.

Textbooks:

  • TBA
     

French 108. Modern French Culture (4 units)
Jeff Fort

TR 10:30-11:50A
101 Olson Hall
CRN 43930

Course Description: Survey of modern French culture from the Dreyfus affair to the present day. Topics may include women and French culture, decolonialization and modernization, education, social welfare and immigration.

Prerequisite: French 023.

GE credit (Old): None.
GE credit (New): World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Writing.

Textbooks:

  • TBA
     

French 115. Medieval French Literature and Society (4 units)
Noah Guynn

TR 1:40-3:00P
1006 Giedt Hall
CRN 44854

Course Description: This course will offer an introduction to medieval French literature in modern French translation. Our focus will be themes of love and marriage, freedom and constraint, faith and desire in short verse narratives, one play, and two courtly romances: Chrétien de Troyes’s Le chevalier au lion and Heldris de Cournouailles’s Le roman de Silence. Class discussions will center on the relationships among storytelling, interpretation, and ethics, notably as they relate to casuistry, a medieval model of moral reasoning and narrative form. The course will have two principal goals: (1) to provide a broad understanding of medieval French literature in its cultural, social, and political contexts; and (2) to improve analytical skills and expository writing.  Students will submit three two- to three-page papers on assigned topics, usually the examination of a theme, motif, or narrative technique. Topics will be announced at least one week prior to the paper’s due date. The final will be a two-hour, self-proctored essay exam.  All readings will be available as a course pack, with the exception of Le chevalier au lion, which you will need to purchase in an inexpensive trade paperback edition.

Course Requirements:                   
Attendance/Participation — 10%
Three Papers, 2-3 pages each — 75%
Final Exam, 2-3 page essay — 15%

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

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

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

Textbook:

  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le Chevalier Au Lion  (Livre de Poche, 1998)
     

French 161. Linguistic Study of French - Form and Meaning (4 units)
Eric Russell

MWF 11:00-11:50A
105 Olson Hall
CRN 44073

Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the structures and functions of French from a linguistic perspective, with particular focus given to basic principles of language science, linguistic approaches to language forms and uses, word formation, inflection, and derivation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), the creation and manipulation of meaning (information structure and pragmatics), and spatio-social variability (register, dialect). Exploration and discussion will focus on French data, with secondary focus on the comparison of French structures and functions to English and other languages. (Note that we will not give significant attention to matters of phonetics and phonology, for which FRE 109 is particularly useful.) Additional goals include the adoption and use of linguistic postures, concepts, and terms, as well as the development and improvement of writing (vocabulary, accuracy, rhetoric).

The course is divided into units corresponding to a particular theme. For each unit, students will complete readings and post-reading précis, summarizing key concepts in their own words and answering short questions; these tasks will be followed by focused analysis and writing activities. There will also be take-home contrôles (mid-term and final tests), covering key concepts and requiring students to examine additional material, as well as develop a short essay; these will be graded on content, grammar, and formal expression.

The course will be conducted entirely in French, although students are invited to compare/contrast this language with others that they speak and/or have studied.

Prerequisite: French 100 or Linguistics 001.

GE credit (Old): Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences.
GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences.

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbook:

  • R. Anthony Lodge, et al., Exploring the French Language  (Routledge, 1997)
     

 GRADUATE COURSES


French 211. Literary Worlds (4 units)
Toby Warner

T 1:10-4:00P
522 Sproul Hall
CRN 43931

Course Description: This course will be an introduction to literary theory through the topic of literary worlds — how literary texts delineate the parameters of their “own” worlds and how they circulate in, interact with, and intervene in “our” world. We will aim to put two kinds of critical perspectives into productive tension: a formalist approach that considers the “worldedness” of literary texts, and a historicist approach that focuses on the “worldliness” of texts and critical practices. Each week we will consider a facet of this intersection through one of a series of keywords: formworldpubliccritiquetranslationscalereadingnetworkaffectecology. Our conversations and assignments will not presume a broad familiarity with literary theory, but will instead be geared toward helping students at all levels of graduate study find their own footing and positions in contemporary debates.

Critical readings may include essays by Michael Allan, Roland Barthes, Karin Barber, Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Pheng Cheah, Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman, Eric Hayot, Isabel Hofmeyr, Caroline Levine, Bruno Latour, Georg Lukacs, Natalie Melas, Franco Morretti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Sianne Ngai, Ato Quayson, Edward Said, and Michael Warner. We will also supplement our critical readings with a selection of literary texts. These will include Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land; Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter; and Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83. All readings will be available in French and English.

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

Format: Seminar - 3 hours.

Textbooks [English or bilingual]:

  • Aime Césaire, Aime Césaire, The Collected Poetry, translated by Clayton Eshleman and Annette J. Smith  (University of California Press, 1984)
  • Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter  (Waveland Press, 2012)
  • Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83, translated by Roland Glasser  (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2015)

Textbooks [French]:

  • Mariama Bâ, Une si longue lettre  (Le Serpent à Plumes, 2001)
  • Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83  (Livre de Poche, 2016)
     

French 215. French and Francophone Film (4 units)
Jeff Fort

R 2:10-5:00P
109 Wellman Hall
CRN 43932

Course Description:

This course will offer an introduction to a number of major theorists of film (and photography) along with a selection of films to accompany the readings. Theorists will include André Bazin, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Germaine Dulac, Jean Epstein, Christian Metz. Filmmakers will include Chantal Akerman, Germaine Dulac, Chris Marker, Jean Renoir, Alain Resnais and others.

May be repeated two times for credit.

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

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Textbooks:

  • TBA