Transfer Student Courses in French This page was created at 12:38 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21) Open courses in French (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for FRENCH Fall Term '01Time Schedule for French. FRENCH 111. First Special Reading Course. Other Language Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Sabine Gabaron (sgabaron@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: French 111 and 112 are designed for juniors, seniors, and graduate students interested in gaining a reading knowledge of the language. Completion of French 111-112 does not satisfy the LS&A language requirement. May not be elected for credit by undergraduates who have received credit for college French. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in 101, 102, or 103. (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is for undergraduate and graduate students who would like to gain a good reading knowledge of French in one term. The essentials of French grammar as well as vocabulary and idioms are presented for passive recognition, followed by translation and sight-reading exercises on materials taken from both humanities and sciences. The skills gained in the course should enable students to read technical writings of moderate difficulty. Toward the end of the term, students select a short article or a chapter of a book in their field of interest for outside reading. Classes meet four times per week in sections of 25 students. There are weekly quizzes as well as course-wide midterm and final examinations. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 FRENCH 270. French and Francophone Literature and Culture. Cultural and Literary Studies Section 003 – Possession: poets, prophecy and property in French culture Instructor(s): Katherine Almquist Prerequisites & Distribution: French 235. (3). (HU). May be elected for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. What is divine inspiration? Where does it come from? Can we sell it? Since the Renaissance, writers have claimed their sources of inspiration to be from the outside; muse or lady, god or demon, patron or market. This originating source overtakes them and produces a work of art which becomes the writer's literary heritage. The question then arises as to who can claim ownership. Does the work belong to the source of inspiration who overtook the poet, giving him or her words as a 'ghost writer', or does it belong to the writer alone? How does the source of inspiration, whether god, human or demon, change the legitimacy of the work? How does a divinely inspired writer position himself inside or outside a market economy? In this course we will examine sources of poetic inspiration in French culture from the Renaissance to the present day in poetry, novels, drama and cinema. We will place the writer in the context of French property laws that define ownership: classic, feudal and modern. We will see how French society has arrived at the rights and responsibilities of poetic authorship, whether the author be possessed by a poetic muse, by a demon, or by an object of love. This course is intended to be an introduction to French literary and cultural values and an opportunity to build vocabulary, written and oral expression. Students will write one page weekly papers and deliver one, short oral presentation. The final exam will be fact-based. Our study will include the works of Ronsard, DuBellay, Montaigne, Racine, Rosset, Voltaire, Nerval, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Proust, Valery, and the films "Dangerous Liaisons" and "With Friends Like Harry". Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 FRENCH 274. French and Francophone Societies and Culture. Cultural and Literary Studies Section 002 – The Politics of Theater Instructor(s): Rececca Graves Prerequisites & Distribution: French 235. (3). (HU). May be elected for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Through the investigation of French theater as social practice, this course will introduce students to the major philosophical and political movements of the twentieth century, as well as providing them with the opportunity to develop their spoken and written French. Emphasis will be placed on dramaturgical innovations in the last century, the philosophical underpinnings of particular plays, and the political implications of individual productions. After a brief introduction to the conventions of Neoclassical and Romantic theater, we will read a number of modern plays and analyze their relationship to contemporaneous philosophical schools (e.g., existentialism) and to their socio-political contexts (e.g., World War II, anti-colonialism, May 68, feminism). An overarching theme of the course will be the question of how and to what purpose twentieth-century theater makes use of classical mythology: why are essentially modern situations repeatedly transposed into the mythological past by twentieth-century dramatists, and, consequently, how is the classical notion of ‘fate’ redefined in this period? Student assessment will be based on class participation, one-page weekly responses to particular texts, and two short papers. A list of possible authors includes: Jarry, Anouilh, Artaud, Cocteau, Camus, Sartre, Ionesco, Césaire, Genet, Beckett, Cixous, and the contemporary theater practice of Peter Brook and Ariane Mouchkine. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 FRENCH 276. Spoken and Written Performance in French. Cultural and Literary Studies Section 001. Instructor(s): William R Paulson Prerequisites & Distribution: French 235. (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is based on the idea that literature and culture in French are things that students should create and perform, not just learn or analyze. So literature will be treated not as a group of texts to be studied, but as something to be produced, transformed, read aloud, played with, and invented. The main activities will be creative writing, oral interpretation, and small-scale theatrical performances, all of which will provide diverse opportunities for using and practicing the French language. Writing projects will often involve pastiche, parody, and other forms that emphasize creative responses to readings, as well as techniques such as those of the French group OuLiPo for producing original writing when one is not necessarily inspired. There will also be Web-based projects, especially exchanges and collaborative activities on the course Web site (not yet open). Authors encountered, exploited, and performed, largely in brief works or excerpts, will include Molière, Diderot, Rousseau, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Queneau, Perec, and Pennac. Assignments will be frequent and generally not long. Grading will be based on written work and on class participation, which is extremely important. No final examination. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 FRENCH 350. Special Topics in French and Francophone Studies. Cultural and Literary Studies Section 002 – Comic wit in seventeenth-century France Instructor(s): Katherine Almquist Prerequisites & Distribution: French 235, and 2 courses numbered between French 250 and 299. (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course we will study the rise of classical French comedy. We will go outside of the theater to read about how theater troupes performed and to understand how being witty in conversation becomes a necessity for good French conversation, even today. Last words, anecdotes, quotable sayings, satire and irony will be studied in poetry and polemical writing, including the works of baroque poets, Guez de Balzac, and Pascal. The mechanics of theater comedy, including physical comedy, spectacle and improvisation, will be studied through works by Scarron, Corneille, Moliere, LaBruyere, and the films "Ridicule" and "Cyrano de Bergerac." While the majority of coursework will consist in reading and in the writing of three short papers, a portion of the grade will go to the development of a skit for presentation and to participation in online, recorded chats whose aim will be to refine the students' ability to be witty in French. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 FRENCH 369. Literature, History, and Culture of Modernity. Cultural and Literary Studies Section 001 – The Object in Twentieth-Century France. Instructor(s): Rebecca Graves Prerequisites & Distribution: French 235, and 2 courses numbered between French 250 and 299. (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The twentieth century was marked by a preoccupation with objects: André Breton was mesmerized by a woman's glove, Marcel Duchamp placed a urinal in a museum, Francis Ponge wrote a series of poems about things, Jean-Paul Sartre was afraid of a fork, and Georges Perec dissected a young couple's attempt to define themselves through the objects they acquired. Writers, visual artists, and filmmakers of this period explored the aesthetic aspect of objects, both quotidian and unusual, while new philosophical theories investigated the human subject's complicated relationship to the physical world and the things contained in it. This course will use the physical object and the philosophical category of the object as primary points of access to the major literary and philosophical movements of the twentieth century. We will begin with an investigation of the significance of the technological object in Futurism and early twentieth-century poetry. Other sections of the course will address the representation of the object in Surrealism, Existentialism and the New Novel. A final section will focus on the object's socio-economic significance in various depictions of French society and culture. A parallel goal for this course is the improvement of students‚ mastery of spoken and written French. Evaluation will be based on one-page weekly response papers, class participation, and a final exercise. A list of possible authors/visual artists/filmmakers includes: Marinetti, Beauduin, Léger, Apollinaire, Cendrars, Benjamin, Breton, Buñuel and Dalì, Dulac, Man Ray, Duchamp, Sartre, Beauvoir, Heidegger, Ponge, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Perec, Barthes, and Godard. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. FRENCH 438 / ROMLING 456 / EDCURINS 456. Topics in Learning and Teaching French. Other Language Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Alain E Martinossi (alainm@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: French 235, and 2 courses numbered between French 250 and 299. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/french/438/001.nsf This course is specifically intended for prospective teachers of French. Although students will be introduced to theories which can be applied to the teaching of any language, practical applications of these theories will all be done in French. The purpose of this course is to present methods of teaching secondary level foreign languages. The course is designed for prospective middle and high school teachers who are competent in their language skills and now seek to focus that competency into a personal teaching style in a foreign language classroom. Throughout the course, student will actively and reflectively practice their teaching skills in preparation for effective student teaching. Please note that this course should be taken by students enrolled in the teacher certification program at the School of Education, and preferably the term just prior to student teaching. This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to: become familiar with the 5 goals of the standards for foreign language learning become familiar with current theories of second language acquisition/teaching through readings and class discussions participate in a range of activities (i.e., development of instructional material targeting various skills, teaching demonstrations, class observations) through which they will demonstrate their understanding of theoretical concepts discussed in class. learn and apply various teaching techniques consistent with the current theories of second language acquisition and teaching observe and critique teaching performances become acquainted with technology for the foreign language classroom and implement it in their teaching participate in professional electronic discussions in order to further explore issues discussed in class. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. FRENCH 461 / MEMS 444. Reading of Old French Texts. Cultural and Literary Studies Section 001 – The Romance of the Rose and Thirteenth-Century Paris. Instructor(s): Peggy S Mccracken (peggymcc@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Three courses in French numbered 300 or above. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course takes as its focus the thirteenth-century allegorical romance, Le roman de la rose. We’ll read this romance slowly, thinking about it as both a work of literature and as a cultural document. We’ll ask what allegory does and how it does it; why allegory is useful for describing love and how allegory might complicate the representation of love in unexpected and potentially subversive ways. We’ll also situate this romance in the context of thirteenth-century Paris. We’ll do research to figure out what Paris looked like when the romance was written, what kind of debates (in the University of Paris, in the church, in the monarchy) may be represented in the text, and we’ll study the production of manuscripts during this period. Toward the end of the term we’ll read the late medieval debates about Le roman de la rose that were initiated by Christine de Pisan and that focused on language, gender, and violence. This course is taught in French. It is open to advanced undergraduates and to graduate students. Graduate students will be responsible for supplementary critical readings. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. This page was created at 12:38 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. 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