Winter 2014

WINTER QUARTER 2014

EXPANDED COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Please click here to see the Winter Schedule as a PDF.

 

 *Change (made after the publication of the Class Schedule and Registration Guide)

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 LOWER-DIVISION COURSES  
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FRENCH 1. Elementary French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Prof. Eric Russell, erussell@ucdavis.edu

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 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.

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): None.
GE credit (New): World Cultures.

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

Textbooks:

• A. Valdman, C. Pons, M.E. Scullen, Chez Nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, 4th Edition (Textbook)
• Chez Nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, 4th Edition (MyFrench Lab - Access Card)
   

FRENCH 2. Elementary French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Prof. Eric Russell, erussell@ucdavis.edu

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 1 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): None.
GE credit (New): World Cultures.

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

Textbooks:

• A. Valdman, C. Pons, M.E. Scullen, Chez Nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, 4th Edition (Textbook)
• Chez Nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, 4th Edition (MyFrench Lab - Access Card)
   

FRENCH 3. Elementary French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Prof. Eric Russell, erussell@ucdavis.edu

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 2 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): None.
GE credit (New): World Cultures.

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

Textbooks:

• A. Valdman, C. Pons, M.E. Scullen, Chez Nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, 4th Edition (Textbook)
• Chez Nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, 4th Edition (MyFrench Lab - Access Card)
   

FRENCH 21. Intermediate French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

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 3 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): None.
GE credit (New): ArtHum, Oral Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours.

Textbook:

• Jean Marie Schultz and Marie-Paul Tranvouez, Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections (Prentice Hall, 2009)
   

FRENCH 22. Intermediate French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

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 21 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): None.
GE credit (New): ArtHum, Oral Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours.

Textbook:

• Jean Marie Schultz and Marie-Paul Tranvouez, Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections (Prentice Hall, 2009)
   

FRENCH 23. Intermediate French (5 Units)
Supervisor: Prof. Julia Simon, jsimon@ucdavis.edu

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 22 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): None.
GE credit (New): ArtHum, Oral Literacy, World Cultures and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours.

Textbook:

• Jean Marie Schultz and Marie-Paul Tranvouez, Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections (Prentice Hall, 2009)
   

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 UPPER-DIVISION COURSES
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FRENCH 117B. The Classical Movement (4 Units)
Prof. Claire Goldstein

Description: In 1648, 10-year old king Louis XIV and his mother fled Paris as angry mobs overtook the city.  It looked as though the Bourbon monarchy had lost control of France. A decade later, Louis named himself the Sun King and began work on Versailles.  The boy on the verge of losing everything turned himself into the glittering center of a vast network of controls that has come to be called French absolutism.  This quarter we will study the ways power, both personal and political, haunt the literature of the French Classical era. We will study how plays, fiction and essays meditate on power and the ways it can seduce and oppress, compel to obedience or inspire revolt.

Prerequisite: French 100.

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

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

Texts:

• TBA
   

FRENCH 128. Colonial Culture and Modern France (4 Units)
Prof. Tobias Warner

Description: What are we to make of the fact that the French republic was, in the historian Gary Wilder’s words, never not a colonial empire? How did the France of the Declaration of Human Rights come to be the France of the infamous Civilizing Mission? How were the often-violent contradictions of a colonial culture created, and how were they sustained and lived both in the métropole and overseas? In this course, we will trace a history of modern France from the perspective of French colonialism, and explore how its legacies continue to condition the present. 

Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor.

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

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Extensive Writing.

Texts:

• TBA
   

FRENCH 141. Citizenship, Difference, and Belonging (4 Units)
Prof. Tobias Warner

Description:What does it mean (and what has it meant) to belong in France? How does one come to be recognized as French, and what are the possibilities and limits of such recognition? How have various forms of difference (cultural, national, sexual, racial) been constructed and contested in the course of negotiating demands for membership, rights, and representation? Together we will take up these questions by reading a variety of literary texts that engage with the complexities of immigrant experience in France, drawn from a broad temporal frame that stretches from the 18th century to the 21st.

Prerequisite: French 100 or consent of instructor.

GE Credits (Old):  None.
GE Credits (New): Arts & Humanities, World Cultures, and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Texts:

• TBA
   

FRENCH 162. History of French Language (4 Units)
Prof. Eric Russell

Description: This course concerns the history of French from Latin to the present day. We will overview the most notable characteristics of French at four periods (Gallo-Romance, Old French, Middle French, and Modern French) and consider the most important changes observed in the language's evolution between these archetypal stages. We will also examine the formation and expansion of Standard French, the decline of dialects and the exportation of French within and beyond its European space of origin.

By the end of this quarter, you should be able to:

• Situate French in the Romance and Indo-European language families
• Comment on principal linguistic (phonology, morphology, syntax) and lexical characteristics of French at different periods
• Discuss the external influences which come to bear on French at different times
• Overview the sociolinguistic history of French

All course lecture, activities, and discussion will be in French; most reading and all writing will be in French. You will acquire a good deal of new and useful vocabulary and will have a chance to refine writing accuracy and style.

Prerequisite: French 160.

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

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Texts:

• TBA
   

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 GRADUATE COURSES
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FRENCH 200. Introduction to Graduate Study in French (4 Units)
Prof. Claire Goldstein

Description: TBA

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

Format: Seminar - 2 hours.

Texts:

• TBA
   

FRENCH 201. History of French (4 Units)
Prof. Eric Russell

Description: TBA

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Texts:

• TBA
   

FRENCH 202. Topics in French Civilization (4 Units)
Prof. Julia Simon

Description: TBA

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.

Texts:

• TBA
   

FRENCH 291. Foreign Language Learning in the Classroom (4 Units)
Prof. Kirsten Harjes

Description: TBA

Same course as German 291 and Spanish 291.

Format: Seminar - 3 hours; Project.

Texts:

• TBA
   

FRENCH 390B. The Teaching of French in College (2 Units)
Prof. Elizabeth Griffart-Meissner

Description: TBA

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 2 hours.

Texts:

• TBA
   

 

FRENCH 396. Teaching Assistant Training Practicum (4 Units)

Prof. Eric Russell (Sec. --, CRN ***)
Prof. Julia Simon (Sec. --, CRN ***)

(Note: Contact Falicia Savala at fsavala@ucdavis.edu for the CRNs.)