SPRING 2009 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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LOWER DIVISION
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FRENCH 1: Elementary French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Bruce Anderson, Assistant Professor (bcanderson
STAFF (Sec. 1, M-F 9:00-9:50, 267 Olson) CRN 75087
STAFF (Sec. 2, M-F 10:00-10:50, 141 Olson) CRN 75088
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 French 1. Students with two or more years of French in high school may only take this course for a Pass/ No Pass grade.
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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.
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%).
Textbooks: E. Amon, J.A. Muyskens, and A.C. Omaggio Hadley, Vis-a-vis: Beginning French (Textbook, 4th Edition); E. Amon, J. Muyskens, and A.C. Omaggio Hadley, Vis-a-vis: Beginning French (Workbook/Laboratory Manual).
FRENCH 2: Elementary French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Bruce Anderson, Assistant Professor (bcanderson
STAFF (Sec. 1, M-F 11:00-11:50, 1120 Hart) CRN 75089
STAFF (Sec. 2, M-F 1:10-2:00, 163 Olson) CRN 75090
Prerequisite:French 1 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass grade.
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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.
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%).
Textbooks: E. Amon, J.A. Muyskens, and A.C. Omaggio Hadley, Vis-a-vis: Beginning French (Textbook, 4th Edition); E. Amon, J. Muyskens, and A.C. Omaggio Hadley, Vis-a-vis: Beginning French (Workbook/Laboratory Manual).
FRENCH 3: Elementary French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Bruce Anderson, Assistant Professor (bcanderson
STAFF (Sec. 1, M-F 9:00-9:50, 141 Olson) CRN 75091
STAFF (Sec. 2, M-F 10:00-10:50, 125 Olson) CRN 75092
STAFF (Sec. 3, M-F 12:10-1:00, 244 Olson) CRN 75093
STAFF (Sec. 4, M-F 1:10-2:00, 167 Olson) CRN 75094
Prerequisite: French 2 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass grade.
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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.
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%).
Textbooks: E. Amon, J.A. Muyskens, and A.C. Omaggio Hadley, Vis-a-vis: Beginning French (Textbook, 4th Edition); E. Amon, J. Muyskens, and A.C. Omaggio Hadley, Vis-a-vis: Beginning French (Workbook/Laboratory Manual).
FRENCH 21: Intermediate French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Eric Russell Webb, Assistant Professor (erussell
STAFF (M-F 11:00-11:50, 101 Wellman) CRN 75096
Prerequisite: French 3 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass 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 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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.
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%).
Textbook: M. Oates and J. Dubois, Personnages: An Intermediate Course in French Language and Francophone Culture (3rd Edition).
FRENCH 22: Intermediate French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Eric Russell Webb, Assistant Professor (erussell
STAFF (Sec. 1, 9:00-9:50, 163 Olson) CRN 75097
STAFF (Sec. 2, 10:00-10:50, 1120 Hart) CRN 75098
Prerequisite: French 21 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass 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 to10). 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 at http://trc.ucdavis.edu/anderson.
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%).
Textbook: M. Oates and J. Dubois, Personnages: An Intermediate Course in French Language and Francophone Culture (3rd Edition).
FRENCH 23: Intermediate French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Nicole Asquith, Assistant Professor (nvasquith
STAFF (Sec. 1, M-F 11:00-11:50, 103 Wellman) CRN 75099
STAFF (Sec. 2, M-F 9:00-9:50, 167 Olson) CRN 75100
Prerequisite: French 22 or placement test. Any student, regardless of previous experience studying French, may take this course for a letter or Pass/ No Pass grade.
Description: Rigorous 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 analyzed 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, plus 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.
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.
Textbook: Course materials will be available for downloading in PDF format.
FRENCH 51: French Literature in Translation - Dead Ends: Stories of Ending and Dying (4 Units)
Jeff Fort, Assistant Professsor (jpfort
@ucdavis.edu)
(MW 3:10-4:00, 105 Wellman)
(F 3:10-4:00, 105 Wellman)
CRN 93417
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.
Format: Lecture - 2 hours; Discussion - 1 hour; Term Paper.
Prerequisite: None.
Textbooks: Blanchot, Death Sentence; Camus, The Stranger; Beckett, Endgame; Beckett, Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable; Blanchot, L'Arret de Mort; Beckett, Fin de partie; Beckett, Malone meurt.
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UPPER DIVISION
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FRENCH 100: Composition in French (4 Units)
France Lemoine, Lecturer (fdlemoine
@ucdavis.edu)
(MWF 1:10-2:00, 105 Wellman) CRN 75126
Description: 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
Prerequisite: course 23 recommended.
Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Compositions - 4 papers.
Textbook: A Course Reader.
FRENCH 108: Modern France - Culture of Consumption in 20th French Culture (4 Units)
Liz Constable, Associate Professor (elconstable
@ucdavis.edu)
(TR 10:30-11:50, 227 Olson) CRN 93418
Description: This course focuses on everyday practices of consumption from the 1940s onwards into post World War II twentieth-century French culture. Our course objectives are to analyze HOW and WHY people construct particular identities through consumption. We will ask what those practices and attitudes tell us about the changing patterns of consumption shaped by modernization and decolonization in twentieth-century French culture. Starting from a historical overview of major trends in patterns of consumption in twentieth-century French culture, the course will focus on specific historical contexts and events in the 1940s and post World War II France. Special topics will include the following: pro-natalism and French culture in the 1940s and 1950s; Americanization of French culture in the 1950s; post-WWII cleansing at home and in Algeria; French cuisine and French gastronomy: culinary nationalism and culinary modernization; May 1968 and the political and culinary revolutions of nouvelle cuisine; critiques of consumption in the wake of 1968.
Our objects of study will include short essays, films, and extracts from novels. 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.
Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor
Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Film Viewing; Extensive Writing.
Textbook: Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and Reordering of the French Culture.
FRENCH 119B: Realism, History, & the Novel
France Lemoine, Lecturer (fdlemoine
@ucdavis.edu)
(MWF 10:00-10:50, 1128 Hart) CRN 93419
Description: Please contact the instructor directly. GE credit: ArtHum
Prerequisite: French 101, 102, or 103
Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Term Paper.
Textbooks: Honore de Balzac, Les Chovans; Victor Hugo, Quatre-Vingt Treize; A Course Reader.
FRENCH 125: French Literature and Other Arts - World War II (4 Units)
Jeff Fort, Assistant Professor (jpfort
@ucdavis.edu)
(MWF 2:10-3:00, 105 Wellman) CRN 93420
Description: In this course we will examine four texts and the films based on them. The narratives revolve around World War II and focus especially on issues of memory, collaboration, guilt, and liberation from the past. We will be attentive to the process whereby a text is converted or translated into film images/stories and the different logics of representation engaged by each medium, particularly as these relate to thematic elements in the stories themselves (remembering/forgetting, visibility/invisibility, false appearances, imagination, testimony both personal and historical...). Course work will include four short papers and a final. Below is a list of the works, with the author of the written text given first, followed by the name of the filmmaker (in one case they are the same).
- Vercors/Jean-Piere Melville, Silence de la mer (1941/1947)
- Marguerite Duras/Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
- Louis Malle, Au revoir les enfants (1987)
- Philippe Grimbert/Claude Miller, Un secret (2004/2008)
Prerequisite: course 101, 102, or 103.
Format: Lecture/Discussion - 3 hours; Term Paper. GE credit: ArtHum.
Textbooks: Grimbert, Un Secret; Malle, Au revoir les enfants; Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour.
FRENCH 141: Selected Topics in French Literature (4 Units)
Daria Roche, Lecturer (dmroche
@ucdavis.edu)
(MWF 12:10-1:00, 27 Wellman) CRN 75131
Description: This course will introduce students to French versification and the poetry of the Renaissance and the 17th century. We will explore the major movements and schools of the French Renaissance, such as l’Ecole lyonnaise and la Pléïade, reading the works of poets such as Labé, DuBellay?, Ronsard, and D’Aubigné. We will also look at poetry as social and political commentary, especially as found in La Fontaine’s fables. Assignments will include several short response papers, a midterm and a final exam.
Prerequisite: courses 100 and 101 or 102, or 103 appropriate to the selected topic or consent of instructor.
Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper or Short Papers; Midterm.
Textbooks: A Course Reader.
FRENCH 161: Modern French Syntax (4 Units)
Bruce Anderson, Assistant Professsor (bcanderson
@ucdavis.edu)
(MWF 12:10-1:00, 27 Wellman) CRN 93421
Descriptions: Please contact the instructor directly.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 1 and one of course 104, 105, 109, or 110.
4 units: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.
Textbook: A Course Reader.
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GRADUATE COURSES
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FRENCH 204: Topics In Medieval Literature (4 Units)
Noah Guynn, Associate Professor (ndguynn
@ucdavis.edu)
(T 2:10-5:00, 144 Olson) CRN 93422
Description: Please contact the instructor directly.
Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.
Textbooks: Moliere, Les fourberies de Scapin; Michel Rousse (trans.), La farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin; Moliere, L'ecole des femmes; Moliere, Le malade imaginaire; Moliere, Les precieuses ridicules.
FRENCH 209C: 20th Century Poetry - Thinking Mallarme ( 4 Units)
Nicole Asquith, Assistant Professor (nvasquith
@ucdavis.edu)
(R 2:10-5:00, 5 Wellman) CRN 93423
Description: In their second volume on postwar French thought, Denis Hollier and Jeffrey Mehlman dedicate a large middle section to writings on the poet Mallarmé, since, as Mehlman puts it, "the ongoing interpretation (and reinterpretation) of Mallarmé… has functioned as a uniquely luminous test case, a ‘radioactive tracer,’ as it were, wending its way through the tissue of French thought (in the latter half of the twentieth century)."
In this seminar, we will concern ourselves, in particular, with the way that reflections on literature, indeed, attempts to define something or name something as “literature” have been largely thought through the late nineteenth-century poet.
Readings will include works by Paulhan, Blanchot, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault and Rancière, as well as, of course, Mallarmé himself.
Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.
Textbooks: Denis Hollier and Jeffrey Mehlman, Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts, Postwar French Thought (Volume II); Stéphane Mallarmé, Igitur - Divagations - Un coup de dés; Stéphane Mallarmé, Poesies.
FRENCH 250B - French Linguistics II (4 Units)
Bruce Anderson, Assistant Professor (bcanderson
@ucdavis.edu)
(MWF 12:10-1:00, 7 Wellman) CRN 35453
Description: Please contact the instructor directly.
Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.
Textbooks: A Course Reader.
FRENCH 390B - The Teaching of French in College (2 Units)
Bruce Anderson, Assistant Professor (bcanderson
@ucdavis.edu)
(W 4:10-6:00, 5 Wellman) CRN 75255
Description: Introduction to Communicative Language Teaching as it relates to French as a foreign language in U.S. colleges/universities through textbook readings, in-class demonstrations, and discussion.
Prerequisite: This course is only open to new, graduate student teaching assistants within the department of French & Italian.
Format: In-class session - 2 hours.
Course Grade: The final grade for the course will be determined by weekly preparation and participation as well as short written assignments. Grading is Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
Textbooks: