COURSE OFFERINGS IN FRENCH
        SPRING 2010

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FREN 1010: Elementary French 1 [4 credits]
Instructor: Staff

Paris

Beginning oral-aural study; attention to grammar. Four class periods and scheduled oral practice each week. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 1020: Elementary French 2 [4 credits]
Instructor: Staff

Chenonceaux, near Tours, France

FREN 1010 continued. Four class periods and scheduled oral practice each week. Prerequisites: FREN 1010 or one year of French in high school. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 2010: Intermediate French 1 [3 credits]
Instructor: Staff

l'Etang de Thau, Languedoc

Grammar review; development of the four skills. Three class periods and laboratory practice each week. Prerequisite: FREN 1020 or two years of French in high school. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 2020: Intermediate French 2 [3 credits]
Instructor: Staff

FREN 2010 is continued. Three class periods and scheduled laboratory each week. Cannot be taken for credit if credit for FREN 2120 has been received. Cannot be taken concurrently with FREN 2120. Prerequisite: FREN 2010 or three years of French in high school. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 2120: Reading French [3 credits]
Instructor: Staff

Festival créole, les Antilles

This course will teach students the knowledge, strategies, and techniques for reading French at the intermediate level. Readings in French; class conducted in English. Prerequisite: FREN 2010 or three years of high school French. Does not count as prerequisite for 3000-level class. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 2200: Language and Culture through Community Living [2 credits/Grading system: satisfactory/unsatisfactory]
Instructor: Dr. M.A. Harsh

la Maison Française

This course for French House residents is designed to improve conversational French and cultural awareness about French-speaking countries. Prerequisite: must be a French House resident. May be repeated up to 8 hours

"Cybervoyage"

As the French House is one of Bowling Green State University’s Living-Learning Communities, FREN 2200 is designed to strengthen and ensure the learning, which occurs in this unique setting. Throughout their residency, residents of the French House practice and promote the French language and the awareness of all Francophone cultures through activities emphasizing diverse cultural phenomena. These activities are organized around virtual exploration, a “cybervoyage.”  Each resident is responsible for the discovery and exploration of one Francophone country or region of the world, which she shares with the French House and the BGSU campus communities through organized activities such as:  cultural discussions, cultural dinners, etc. At the end of the term, the residents bring their “cybervoyage” findings together in a collective travel log/scrapbook. Participation in house activities is required to earn a grade of Satisfactory.  
Interested in la Maison Française? Check out our website:   http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/rocs/frenchhouse/index.html

FREN 2220: French Culture [3 credits]
Instructor: E. Zappitelli

Does this man represent French culture to you? If you want to know why he shouldn't, then this course is for you. In French 222, we will focus on the problem of Franco-American relations within a variety of contexts: cultural, historical, political, economic, social, etc. We will discuss various contributors to Franco-American cooperation (harmony) and conflict (discord), both currently and historically, both individually and collectively. We will also explore the impact of mass media, major international events, and changing power structures on each society's perception of the other. The goal of this course is to help students develop a more sophisticated understanding of the United States' relationship with France, beyond the simplified version often portrayed by some media sources and propagated by common stereotypes. By the end of this course, students will have considered this complex relationship from multiple perspectives and will have acquired knowledge helpful in shaping their arguments. Readings and class in English. Does not fulfill language requirements or count toward the major or minor in French. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 3000: Preparation for Study in France and Burkina-Faso (1 credit)
Instructor: Mrs. C. Whipple, AYA Director & Ms. Linda Greene

Villandry, near Tours

Limited to participants in AYA/France-Burkina Faso (year, semester, summer) programs. Readings and discussions to encourage and facilitate student preparation for upcoming study abroad experience. Course conducted during last six weeks of spring semester, following program application deadline. Does not count toward French major or minor. Conducted in English. Graded S/U

Mosque, Burkina Faso

FREN 3560: Skills for Oral Proficiency
Instructor: Dr. H. Souleyman

French 3560 is designed to build upon your acquired language skills with a special emphasis on oral proficiency. We will concentrate on your oral expression as well as your comprehension of spoken French. Using multimedia resources such as television programs, radio interviews, discussions, movies, songs, etc.—all originating from the Francophone world—you will quickly become more at ease listening to authentic French and reacting appropriately to what you hear. You will become familiar with the various linguistic levels associated with oral production within different social milieus. For instance, you will learn that—much like in English—the manner you choose to speak to the president of an international company will not be the same as that used to address a good friend. Pronunciation practice and vocabulary acquisition will aid in making you more comfortable with your spoken French. Topics of discussion will run the gamut of conversational instances: you will learn the proper words and formulations involved in expressing yourself in everyday life situations (ordering at a café, making plans with friends, answering the phone, etc.); but also, those encountered in the more exceptional circumstances (professional interview, debates, etc.). 

French 3560 will lead to a more profound level of acquisition and appreciation of the language through the discovery of its rhythms, subtleties, and its imagery. For example, what do you think the illustrated idiomatic expression on the left means? (Hint: the corresponding English expression is illustrated to the right). Prerequisite: FREN 202 or four years of high school French.

FREN 3570: Skills for Effective Writing
Instructor: Dr. M.A. Harsh

  
Johannes Vermeer, "A Lady Writing", circa 1665

The main focus of this course is to help students become more proficient in their written expression in French, while continuing to develop conversation, reading, and listening skills.  It includes a grammar review that especially targets structures that will help students write more complex sentences, as well as work with techniques and expressions to help students write more authentically and with increased sophistication.  Writing is a multi-stage process in which students revise their compositions several times, improving their French by learning to correct their own errors and by receiving feedback from both peers and the instructor.  We read a variety of literary and cultural texts and study a film as a basis for class discussions and writing assignments. Prerequisite : FREN 2002 or 4 years of French in high school.

FREN 3630: Introduction to French Literature (3 credits)
Instructor: Dr. R. Berg

In this introductory literature course, we will work to develop your skills in reading, understanding, discussing, and writing about theater, poetry, and prose fiction in French.  You will learn critical vocabulary for talking about literature, and you  will develop your analytical thinking skills through class discussions and writing assignments based on the readings.  We will focus on authors and issues in French literature primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also going back to the Renaissance in poetry.  In addition to reading strategies and literary analysis, class activities and assignments will help you to improve your spoken and written expression in French.  Prerequisites: FREN 3560 or 3570, or by permission of instructor.

FREN 3760: Introduction to Francophone Civilization
Instructor: Dr. O. Zongo

Cross-century study of historical, social, cultural, and economic aspects of French speaking world outside France through political, social, intellectual, and artistic texts. Prerequisite: FREN 3560 and FREN 3570, or permission of instructor.

FREN 3950: French Workshop: La Petite Ecole (1 credit)
Instructor: H. Gabel
For advanced students in French: Participate in a community-outreach program that will give you the opportunity to work with elementary school children in the Bowling Green School District. First 3 weeks: Hands-on practice sessions with Early Childhood Education specialists at the M.A. level to help further develop provided lesson plans. January 11 – March 6, 2010: one-hour team-taught sessions per week with a small group of schoolchildren to teach beginning French and French/Francophone culture in a playful atmosphere. Prerequisite: FREN 3560 and FREN 3570; students with concurrent enrollment in 3570 should contact instructor if interested.   If you are interested, please contact  Ms. Heather Gabel. 

FREN 4510: Advanced Conversation and Composition (3 credits)
Instructor: E. Zappitelli

In this advanced course on oral and written expression in French, students can expect to improve their linguistic skills through the analysis of short 20^th- and 21^st-century texts highlighting different genres and stylistic strategies (as in works by Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Philippe Delerm, and Raymond Queneau). The course also includes the study of contemporary journalistic pieces and film. Prerequisite: French 3560 or 3570.

Sartre et de Beauvoir

FREN 4550: French Applied Linguistics (3 credits)
Instructor: Dr. H. Souleyman

Regions of France

This course introduces students to the linguistic features of French, including comparisons between French and other languages, to the changing nature of language, and to key differences in varieties of French. It also encourages students to accommodate for gaps in their own knowledge of French and to seek opportunities to learn about varieties of French by becoming autonomous learners. Prerequisites: FREN 3530, FREN 3560, and FREN 3570.

FREN 4630/5400:     French Realism-Page to Screen
Instructor: Dr. Robert Berg

Advanced study of selected texts, author, genres or themes in French literature. May be repeated. Prerequisite: FREN 3630.

FREN 4730/5550: Contemporary Francophone Civilizations (3 credits)
Des Marges au Centre: l'impact de l'immigration sur la politique, les arts et la langue française (e credits)
Instructor: Dr. M. A Harsh

In this course we will be exploring the effect that Twentieth Century immigration into France has had upon French culture. What sort of public policies and private ideals were affected by the flow of "outsiders" into the nations? What political and social problems arose as immigrants came up against the dominant culture? The majority population tends to think of immigration in terms of the problematic. By contrast, let us also examine the diversity and richness that new residents for other lands have contributed to the French language and to the arts in the last half of the Twentieth Century.
The students in this course will become familiar with French immigration policies and how they have been administered during the past century. Through reading and internet research they will inform themselves about the difficulties that majority and minority populations experience as they adjust to a global society. They will confront through literature and film the problems that immigrant populations have faced as they have strived to construct a new hybrid identities and have sough to integrate themselves into french society. Finally, participants in the class will reflect upon the cultural changes and contributions that have occurred in France as the result of population migration from the margins of the former French empire to its center.

FREN 6300: Seminar in French Language Studies (3 credits)
Instructor: Dr. H. Souleyman

 
Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (28 July 1830) 1830

Advanced studies in French language, including historical, grammatical, stylistic, and linguistic approaches, as well as translation. The areas to be covered are chosen from phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialect and social variation, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel (1563)

FREN 6980: Reading for Final Project (3 credits)
Instructor: Dr. R. Berg

Bibliothèque, la Sorbonne

A program of individual readings and research established in consultation with the graduate coordinator. Available in the semester the final project is to take place.

FREN 6990: Thesis Research (1-12 credits)
Instructor: Dr. R. Berg

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, rue de Richelieu

Credit for thesis study. Enrollment in excess of six hours acceptable for Plan I master's degree, but no more than six hours creditable towards degree; minimum acceptable total for degree is three hours. Graded S/U

 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Bibliothèque François Mitterand)

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COURSE OFFERINGS IN FRENCH
FALL 2009

Interested in Study Abroad in France, Quebec or Burkina-Faso?
Click on the following link to find out more:  
 http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/rocs/frenchstudies/page26513.html
          Romance and Classical Studies Academic Year Abroad Office
  102 Shatzel  Hall    (419) 372-8053   
[ayafran@bgsu.edu]

        
TOURS, FRANCE                          QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
        
         
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA-FASO 

FREN 1010: Elementary French 1 [4 credits]
Paris
Instructor: Staff

Beginning oral-aural study; attention to grammar. Four class periods and scheduled oral practice each week. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 1020: Elementary French 2 [4 credits]
Chenonceaux, near Tours. France
Instructor: Staff

FREN 1010 continued. Four class periods and scheduled oral practice each week. Prerequisites: FREN101 / FREN1010 or one year of French in high school. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 2010: Intermediate French 1 [3 credits]
 l'Etang de Thau, Languedoc
Instructor: M.H. Souleyman

Grammar review; development of the four skills. Three class periods and laboratory practice each week. Prerequisite: FREN102 / FREN1020 or two years of French in high school. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 2020: Intermediate French 2 [3 credits]

Instructor:  Mme. K. Grecos

FREN 2010 is continued. Three class periods and scheduled laboratory each week. Cannot be taken for credit if credit for FREN 2120 has been received. Cannot be taken concurrently with FREN 2120. Prerequisite: FREN 201 /FREN 2010 or three years of French in high school. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.

FREN 2120: Reading French [3 credits]
Festival créole, les Antilles
Instructor: Staff   
                                             
This course will teach students the knowledge, strategies, and techniques for reading French at the intermediate level. Readings in French; class conducted in English. Prerequisite: FREN 201/ FREN 2010 or three years of high school French. Does not count as prerequisite for 3000-level class. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.
 
FREN 2200: Language and Culture through Community Living [2 credits/Grading system: satisfactory/unsatisfactory]
  
Instructor: Dr. M. A. Harsh   

This course for French House residents is designed to improve conversational French and cultural awareness about French-speaking countries. Prerequisite: must be a French House resident. May be repeated up to 8 hours.

                       
                            "Cybervoyage"
As the French House is one of Bowling Green State University’s Living-Learning Communities, FREN 2200 is designed to strengthen and ensure the learning, which occurs in this unique setting. Throughout their residency, residents of the French House practice and promote the French language and the awareness of all Francophone cultures through activities emphasizing divers cultural phenomena. Each resident is responsible for the discovery and exploration of one Francophone country or region of the world, which she shares with the French House and the BGSU campus communities through organized activities such as:  cultural discussions, cultural dinners, etc. At the end of the term, the residents bring their “cybervoyage” findings together in a collective travel log/scrapbook.  Participation in house activities is required to earn a grade of Satisfactory.  
 Interested in la Maison Française?  Check out our website.

 FREN 2220: French Culture [3 credits]  
 
Instructor: Mme.. H. Gabel

Does this man represent French culture to you? If you want to know why he shouldn't, then this course is for you. In French 2220, we will focus on the problem of Franco-American relations within a variety of contexts: cultural, historical, political, economic, social, etc. We will discuss various contributors to Franco-American cooperation (harmony) and conflict (discord), both currently and historically, both individually and collectively. We will also explore the impact of mass media, major international events, and changing power structures on each society's perception of the other. The goal of this course is to help students develop a more sophisticated understanding of the United States' relationship with France, beyond the simplified version often portrayed by some media sources and propagated by common stereotypes. By the end of this course, students will have considered this complex relationship from multiple perspectives and will have acquired knowledge helpful in shaping their arguments.  
Readings and class in English. Does not fulfill language requirements or count toward the major or minor in French. Applicable to the humanities and arts and international perspective general education requirements.            

FREN 3000: Preparation for Study in France and Burkina-Faso (1 credit)
 Villandry, near Tours
Instructor: Mme. Cynthia Whipple, AYA Director

Limited to participants in AYA/France_Burkina-Faso (year, semester, summer) programs. Readings and discussions to encourage and facilitate student preparation for upcoming study abroad experience. Course conducted during last six weeks of fall semester, following program application deadline. Does not count toward French major or minor. Conducted in English. Graded S/U.

                       Mosque, Burkina-Faso

 FREN 3560: Skills for Oral Proficiency [3 credits]
   
Instructor: Ms. H. Gabel  

In this course, you will focus primarily on improving your spoken French, in particular your fluidity and communicative ability. You will learn conversation strategies and practice language structures in order to improve accuracy in French, with special emphasis given to thematic vocabulary development. You will become more at ease listening to authentic conversational French and reacting appropriately to what you hear. You will practice oral discussion prompted by a variety of media (see below). You will achieve greater ease of expression and be able to discuss a wide range of topics.

Subject matter for the course will be drawn from various aspects of contemporary French-speaking cultures. In addition to the textbook, we will work with French language sources from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, videos and handouts.  Classes will be conducted exclusively in French.  Prerequisite: FREN 202 / FREN 2020 or four years of high school French.

FREN 3570: Skills for Effective Writing [3 credits]
   
Instructor: Dr. D. Houk Schocket   

The main focus of this course is to help students become more proficient in their written expression in French, while continuing to develop conversation, reading, and listening skills.  It includes a grammar review that especially targets structures that will help students write more complex sentences, as well as work with techniques and expressions to help students write more authentically and with increased sophistication.  Writing is a multi-stage process in which students revise their compositions several times, improving their French by learning to correct their own errors and by receiving feedback from both peers and the instructor.  We read a variety of literary and cultural texts and study a film as a basis for class discussions and writing assignments. Prerequisite : FREN 202 / FREN 2020 or 4 years of French in high school.

FREN 3660: Introduction to Francophone Literature [3 credits]
  
Instructor: Dr. B. Guenther

In this course, students can expect to explore a wide range of literary texts associated with the term, la francophonie. We will study the adoption and diverse transformations of the French language
and culture in works drawn from the Caribbean, the Maghreb [in particular, Algeria and Morocco], West Africa, and Quebec. Works by Césaire, Condé, Sebbar, and Lalonde, among others, will permit us to analyze key political issues (for instance, colonialism, decolonization, gender) as well as how different genres (narrative, theatre, poetry, and film) reinforce and/or problematize such concerns. Prerequisites: FREN 356/ FREN 3560 and FREN 357/ FREN 3570, or permission of instructor.

Some examples of Francs d'Outremer

FREN 3730: Introduction to French Civilization [3 credits]
Instructor: Dr. R. Berg

The emphasis will be on France today. Among the topics that we’ll be studying: social issues and cultural life (mariage and the family, religions, immigration, education); institutions of the Fifth Republic, elections and contemporary political parties; France in the European Union. Our classroom is the Language Learning Center, where we’ll spend a large part of the course reading the French press online and listening to French radio. Prerequisites: FREN 356/ FREN 3560 and FREN 357 /FREN 3570, or permission of instructor.

Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Rèpublique Française

FREN 4580/5380: Career French (3 credits)
Instructor: Dr. R. Berg
Textbook: R. Berg, Parlons affaires! Initiation au français économique et commercial, 2^nd edition(Thonson/Heinle)

An introduction to business and commercial French. The course will prepare you for the exam leading to the DFA-1 (diplôme du français des affaires, premier degré), sponsored by the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris. BGSU is a centre d’examens, and the exam is given in April on campus. The exam is an option, not a course requirement.
Here is a sampling of topics that will be covered:

Première Partie: Les Communications

• Module 1: La Correspondance
• Module 2: Micro-informatique, Internet, courrier électronique
• Module 3: À la recherche d’un emploi

Deuxième Partie: Le Monde de l’entreprise

• Module 4: Typologie des entreprises
• Module 5: Création, croissance, déclin de l’entreprise
• Module 6: Organisation et fonctionnement de l’entreprise
• Module 7: Le Marketing (la mercatique)

Troisième Partie: Au Service de l’entreprise et du particulier

• Module 8: La Banque et les moyens de paiement
• Module 9: La Bourse
• Module 10: Les Assurances
• Module 11: Les Transports et le commerce international

Appendices

• Eléments de vocabulaire économique
• Communiquer au téléphone
• Les Services postaux
• Initiation à la féminisation des appellations professionnelles   

The approach, resolutely practical throughout, is especially so in Modules 1 and 3, which emphasize the acquisition of skills: writing your résumé, job interviews, business letters. We will meet in the Language Learning Center, where we will be exploring together relevant web sites. Prerequisite: FREN 356/ FREN 3560 or FREN 357/ FREN3570.

FREN 5500: Contemporary Francophone Civilizations [3 credits]

Instructor: Dr. O. Zongo

The focus of this course will be on the contemporary civilizations of the French-speaking world. Through our study of novels, essays, films, and documentaries, we will examine (daily) manifestations and representations of life, (social, political, economic, racial/ethnic, artistic, etc.) concern, and ambitions of the French and French-Speaking Africans, Caribbean people, Asians, and North-Americans.We will begin with a study of the history of the contact between France and the peoples of Asia, Africa, North America and the Caribbean, how the contact shaped the sociopolitical, economic, cultural and intellectual realities of these peoples and how they transcend or transform them. We will cover, among others, such topics as immigration, xenophobia, self-representation, representation of the “Other,” intellectual, artistic, cultural, and political resistance, and post-colonialism.  We will conclude with an evaluation of the phenomenon of la francophonie, namely, what future various constituents of the French-speaking world see for it, and whether they think that it is going to be a key factor in their lives in a 21st century that most predict will be governed by “globalization.”
Prerequisite: FREN 376 / FREN 3760 or by permission of instructor.
 
FREN 6010: Teaching College French [3 credits]

Instructor: Dr. M.H. Souleyman

Students will develop an awareness of who they are and who they are becoming as teachers by reflecting on their own pedagogical practice and that of others. Students will demonstrate informed pedagogical choices—and an understanding of what informs those choices—as they teach in a variety of common methods. Students will design pedagogical activities for engaging the individual learner and assessing student learning. Students will demonstrate their ability to evaluate pedagogical materials. Students will showcase their teaching experience and pedagogical N. B. Teaching Assistants meet for one hour a week with the TA Supervisor (in Fall 2009, Dr. B. Guenther);  the other two hours are taught by M. H. Souleyman.

FREN 6320: Critical Approaches to Literature: Literary and Cultural Theory [3 credits]                                                               Gabriele Güenther  oil / mixed on wood, 2007 Instructor: Dr. B. Guenther                                                                            This course will explore the relevance of theoretical approaches to the study of literature and culture. The double emphasis of the course is: 1) to introduce students to major theoretical trends [structuralism; deconstruction; psychoanalytic theory; historiography; film studies; gender studies; post-colonialism] through the analysis of critical texts by, among others, Roland Barthes, Gérard Genette, Michel Foucault, Pierre Nora; and 2) to encourage the practical application of theoretical methods to literary and cultural texts (including film). Students can expect to play an active role in exploring the different critical methods and ideologies through oral and written assignments.

FREN 6990: Thesis Research [1-12 credits]

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, rue de Richelieu

Instructor: Dr. R. Berg

Credit for thesis study. Enrollment in excess of six hours acceptable for Plan I master's degree, but no more than six hours creditable toward degree; minimum acceptable total for degree is three hours. Graded S/U
        

Bibliothèque Nationale de France (F. Mitterand)