Summer Session 2001

French and Romance Philology

DEPARTMENTAL REPRESENTATIVE: Prof. Paul Creamer, 510 Philosophy
Office hours: by appointment
Telephone: 854-3522
E-mail: [email protected]

Language courses are not open to auditors.

French S1101D. Elementary course, I.
E. Matheis. 4 points. MTuWTh 6–8:05 p.m. May 21–June 29 and June 1
Noncredit option available.
Course fee: $10.
Equivalent to French C1101 or F1101.
Designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write French, and to recognize some cultural features of French-speaking communities. Prepares students to understand and communicate with native and nonnative French speakers. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to provide information about their personal feelings, their immediate environment, their families, and their daily activities. The method of instruction is a communicative approach: with the help of the instructor, students engage in activities using the French language. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French S1102Q. Elementary course, II.
J. Chamberlin. 4 points. MTuWTh 6–8:05 p.m. July 2–August 10 and July 6
Noncredit option available.
Course fee: $10.
Prerequisite:one term of college French or one year of secondary school French.
Equivalent to French C1102 or F1102.
Continues the work of French S1101D and completes the study of elementary French. Students continue to develop communicative skills, narrating recent events (past, present, and future), describing daily life activities, and learning about cultural features of the Francophone world; and learn to solve problems using the language, to communicate their feelings and opinions, and to obtain information from others. Topics include knowledge of basic geographical and historical facts about parts of the world where the French language is an important medium of communication. The method of instruction is a communicative approach: students engage in activities using the language with the help of the instructor. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French S1201D. Intermediate course, I.
K. Glover. 4 points. MTuWTh 6–8:05 p.m. May 21–June 29 and June 1
Noncredit option available.
Course fee: $10.
Prerequisite:two terms of college French or two years of secondary school French.
Equivalent to French C1201 and F1201.
Prepares students for advanced French language and cultures, focusing on developing accurate use of language through explanations and practice. Students gain a deeper understanding of the structure of the French language. Students practice speaking by initiating, sustaining, and closing basic communicative tasks; and listen to a variety of spoken discourse segments in both audio and video form. The course emphasizes cross-cultural awareness. Students learn to apply reading strategies and reflect on what they have read; to meet practical needs such as writing letters; to understand simple conversations as well as complex discourse segments on a variety of topics; and to ask and answer a variety of questions related to their daily activities and their family life. The methodology is a task-based approach utilizing cooperative learning. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French S1202Q. Intermediate course, II.
V. Aurora. 4 points. MTuWTh 6–8:05 p.m. July 2–August 10 and July 6
Noncredit option available.
Course fee: $10.
Prerequisite: three terms of college French or three years of secondary school French.
Equivalent to French C1202 and F1202.
Continues to prepare students for advanced French language and culture with an emphasis on developing highly accurate speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students discuss complex topics, using the French language in diverse contexts; initiate, sustain, and close relatively complex communicative tasks; ask and answer a variety of questions; listen to fabricated and real spoken segment-discourse in audio and video; understand relatively complex conversations; and read and reflect on literary works. The course continues to emphasize cross-cultural awareness through texts and authentic materials, and introduces nuances and differences of meaning in a variety of linguistic contexts. The instructional approach is task-based and utilizes cooperative learning. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French S1204D. Rapid reading and translation.
May 21–June 29B. O’Keeffe. 3 points. TuWTh 6–8:05 p.m.
Course fee: $10.
Primarily for graduate students in other departments who have some background in French and who wish to meet the French reading requirement for the Ph.D. degree, or for scholars whose research involves references in the French language. Intensive reading and translation, both prepared and at sight, in works drawn from literature, criticism, philosophy, and history. Brief review of grammar; vocabulary exercises.

French S3405D. Advanced grammar and composition, I.
May 21–June 29R. Redien-Collot. 3 points. TuWTh 6–8:05 p.m.
Course fee: $10.
Prerequisite:French C1202 or F1202, or the equivalent.
Equivalent to French W3405.
Prepares students for advanced French language and accurate use of syntactic structures. Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the written language through stylistic exercises, writing assignments, and exercises in composition and syntax. Required of all French majors. Daily assignments include quizzes, compositions, and homework.

French S4580Q. The life and literature of Marcel Proust [in English].
J. Cornette. 3 points. MW 6–9:10 p.m. July 2–August 10 and July 6
Prerequisite: completion of four semesters of French, or the equivalent.
Youth and adulthood of Marcel Proust, his development and maturation as a writer; A la recherche du temps perdu, its influence. The course will be conducted in English; students will read the novel in English, and perform close readings of various passages in French. The goal of the course is to familiarize students not only with A la recherche, but also with Proust’s signature literary techniques and innovations; his methods of composition and rewriting; and the kinds of attention his masterpiece has received since its publication.

Noncredit Language Courses

Certain language courses may be taken on a noncredit basis for $1,100 each, plus any course fees noted in the departmental listing.

Students taking noncredit courses are held to the same standards as regular students with regard to:

• attendance
• class participation
• completion of homework assignments
• any other course requirements.

Noncredit students who fail to meet these requirements may be asked to leave the course.

Under no circumstance are these courses convertible to credit, except payment in full for the credit option before the designated last day to exercise the pass/fail option.

No qualitative grade(s) are assigned or recorded. Students are assigned the mark of R (registration) for the courses they complete; a University transcript bearing that mark may be issued at the student's request.

Call numbers for these courses (needed for registration) will be available after April 3.

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