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Elementary French, first semester (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
1
Summer 2016
M. Phillips; T. Sanders
Readings:
Chez nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, Media Enhanced 4th edition; Chez nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, Student activities manual, Media Enhanced 4th edition; Chez nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, Answer Key, Media Enhanced 4th edition; Recommended: Morton, English Grammar for Students of French
Course Description:
Introduction to Francophone cultures through speaking, listening, reading, and writing in French, with French as the exclusive means of communication. Emphasis is placed on developing student ability to create and to communicate with basic French structures and vocabulary. Linguistic and cultural competency is developed through oral exercises, individual and collaborative reports, class discussions, and the use of various media resources. Reading and writing are developed through both in-class and independent reading projects using the French Department Library, as well as through compositions and other written assignments. The program integrates all aspects of foreign language study through a process-oriented approach in compliance with ACTFL‘s Oral Proficiency and the 5Cs of the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning for the 21st Century. Cultural competency is also reinforced by exposure to French and Francophone worlds through various oral/aural exercises, written assignments, film clips and various media resources. The students will gain a historical perspective on French and Francophone cultures.
Prerequisites:
No previous French experience required. This course is also appropriate for students with one quarter of college-level French, 2 years of high school French, or less. For additional placement information please see Lower Division Placement Guidelines.
Additional information:
Course not open to native or heritage speakers of French. All sections are conducted entirely in French.
Elementary French, second semester (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
2
Summer 2016
V. Bergstrom
Readings:
Chez nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, Media Enhanced 4th edition; Chez nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, Student activities manual, Media Enhanced 4th edition; Chez nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, Answer Key, Media Enhanced 4th edition; Recommended: Morton, English Grammar for Students of French
Course Description:
Continuing development of students’ knowledge of fundamental structures of French, awareness of Francophone cultures, and their appropriate socio-linguistic application in both spoken and written communication. Class conducted entirely in French. Speaking ability is developed through oral exercises, individual and collaborative reports, class discussions and debates. Reading and writing are developed through both in-class and independent reading projects using the French Department Library, compositions and various written assignments. Students are introduced to French analytical writing through an exploration of various topics relating to contemporary French and Francophone societies. The course also includes the reading of authentic literature in the form of a modern play. The program integrates all aspects of foreign language study through a process-oriented approach in compliance with ACTFL‘s Oral Proficiency and the 5Cs of the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning for the 21st Century. Cultural competency is also reinforced through individual oral reports, class debates on issues affecting contemporary world societies, and the use of appropriate media resources including radio and television news, film clips, and cultural programs. Students will have the opportunity to do comparative studies on French and American cultures in terms of both personal and national identity. The class meets five days a week; it is conducted entirely in French; plan on daily oral and written exercises.
Prerequisites:
French 1 at UC Berkeley or 1 semester (or 2 quarters) of college-level French at another university or 3 years of high school French or consent of the instructor.
Additional information:
Course not open to native or heritage speakers of French. All sections are conducted entirely in French.
Intermediate French (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
3
Summer 2016
M. Evans
Readings:
Required: Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections, 2nd Edition, Pearson (Textbook, Student activities manual, and Answer key, access to My French Lab, and complimentary Oxford New French Dictionary); select outside readings
Please note: All of the required material (textbook, student activities manual, answer key and MyFrenchLab) will be available in package form at the Cal Student Store. In most cases, purchasing a package turns out to be cheaper than buying the components separately. Oxford New French Dictionary included in package.
Recommended: Morton, English Grammar for Students of French
Course Description:
This course is conducted in French. This is an intermediate language and culture class that aims to consolidate and expand the skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing in French. The course aims to promote cross-cultural understanding through the use of authentic materials such as literary and journalistic texts, multimedia, film, pop songs, and television/radio broadcasts, and other cultural artifacts. We will explore various topics such as self and family, education, human relationships, traditions, politics, and national identities, and compare American and other perceptions to those of the French and francophone world in whole class discussion, small groups and other collaborative formats. In addition to a review and refinement of grammar and vocabulary in a culturally rich context, students also experiment with their written expression through different formats, including analytical essays, journals, creative writing and independent projects using the Internet.
Prerequisites:
For students with one of the following: 4 years of high school French; a passing grade in French 2 at UC Berkeley; 2nd or 3rd semester college French; 3rd or 4th-quarter college French; a 3 on the AP French exam.
Additional information:
Course not open to native or heritage speakers of French. Satisfies the College of Letters & Science breadth requirement in International Studies (IS). All sections are conducted entirely in French, with 25 students per section.
Advanced Intermediate French (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
4
Summer 2016
C. Stofle
Readings: Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections, 2nd Edition, Pearson (Textbook, Student activities manual, and Answer key); Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis-clos, (Gallimard, 2000). ISBN-10: 2070368076 and ISBN-13: 978-2070368075; selected outside readings
Recommended: My French Lab access; Morton, English Grammar for Students of French
The program uses the second edition only. All of the required materials (textbook, student activities manual, answer key and MyFrenchLab) will be available in package form at the Cal Student Store. In most cases, purchasing a package turns out to be cheaper than buying the components separately. Oxford New French Dictionary is included in package.
Recommended: Morton, English Grammar for Students of French
Course Description:
This course is conducted entirely in French. French 4 is an advanced intermediate language and culture class that aims to refine the skills acquired in French 3 or equivalent courses and to enhance students’ familiarity with French and Francophone literature. Emphasis is placed on the strengthening of oral and written expression in order to promote linguistic and cultural competences through an extensive grammar review and exploration of texts, visual and audio sources, multi-media, and other cultural artifacts. Topics covered include immigration and multiculturalism, France’s relations with other countries in Europe and around the world, Francophone cultures, identity, politics, the arts, and film. Various genres and visual and written forms are covered, including short stories, plays, poems, and films, studied in their literary and cultural contexts (history, philosophy, music, art). Throughout the semester, students share ideas in collaborative small groups and whole class discussion, continue to work on independent projects using the Internet, and explore new formats for writing in French, including expository writing, journalistic and creative writing activities, as well as visual and textual analysis in French.
Prerequisites:
For students with one of the following: a passing grade in French 3 at UC Berkeley; 4th-semester or 5th-quarter college French; a 4 or 5 on the AP French exam. Students who have lived in a French-speaking environment should take the French 102 Placement Exam and consult with Vesna Rodic, the Acting Second Year Coordinator. For additional placement information please see Lower Division Placement Guidelines. See also French Enrollment FAQs.
Additional information:
Course not open to native or heritage speakers of French. Satisfies the College of Letters & Science breadth requirement in International Studies (IS). All sections are conducted entirely in French, with a maximum of 25 students per section.
Practical Phonetics and Listening Comprehension (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
35
Summer 2016
M. Arrigo
Readings:
Abry and Chalandon, 350 exercices; course materials
Course Description:
This multimedia web-assisted course concentrates on pronunciation and listening comprehension skills. Because it concentrates on the first task confronted upon arrival in a French-speaking country (to understand and be understood), it has traditionally been considered very helpful before going to France for study, work, or travel. Training in Practical Phonetics focuses on the traditionally more difficult areas for speakers of English, with priority given to errors that affect comprehensibility by natives. Training in Listening Comprehension includes both global comprehension activities and attention to discrete points –such as sound elisions or consonant assimilation– which make French difficult to understand. Use of a wide variety of text, audio and video documents, including radio and television. Students learn the International Phonetic Alphabet for reading purposes. Theoretical concepts are introduced as necessary. This course is conducted entirely in French.
Prerequisites: A passing grade in French 3 at UC Berkeley, or the equivalent. If you have questions about placement, see the Placement Guidelines on French Department website.
Additional information: Course not open to native or heritage speakers of French. This course satisfies the phonetics requirement for the French major.
Reading and Composition (R&C)
Reading the Crowd: 19th Century Texts and Images
R1B (Section 1) : English Composition through French Literature in Translation (Summer Session D -- 6 weeks)
Summer 2016
M. Szarke
Readings:
See Description.
Course Description:
Baudelaire famously remarked that only gifted artists can efficiently mingle with the crowd [“Il n’est pas donné à chacun de prendre un bain de multitude, jouir de la foule est un art…”]. Yet the inescapable, frenetic mob becomes a quintessential figure in 19th-century literature and painting. It is an object of mass consumption. This course will consider the representation of the crowd in historical documents (psychological studies, photographs, poster advertisements), canonical literary works (Poe, Baudelaire, Zola), and paintings (Van Gogh, Renoir, Manet, Caillebotte, Monet) in order to question the readability and predictability of the modern crowd. In our readings, we will consider the ways in which the depiction of the overflowing mob articulates a specific anxiety about the legibility of urban spaces. If it is up to the writer, painter, scientist, or criminologist to provide a clear definition of the masses, how does that particular enterprise succeed and/or fail? Theoretical readings will include selections from Simmel, Le Bon, Michel de Certeau, Benjamin, and others.
Special emphasis will be placed on the development of close reading/looking skills, argumentative writing, and research techniques. As part of the reading and composition series, this course requires students to complete a 10-12 page research paper. Students should expect to submit multiple drafts throughout the semester and participate in a short presentation. Class is taught in English and texts will be read in English translation.
Additional information:
This course fulfills the second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement in the College of Letters and Science. Class conducted in ENGLISH.
Empires of the Moon: Imagining the Foreign in French Lunar Literature
R1B (Section 2) : English Composition through French Literature in Translation (Summer Session D -- 6 weeks)
Summer 2016
L. Louie
Readings/Films
Required Texts:
Course pack, including Cyrano de Bergerac’s The States and Empires of the Moon, Lucian’s A True History, and excerpts from Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France antarctique
Books:
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, transl. H.A. Hargreaves (Univ. of California Press, 1990), ISBN-13: 978-0520071711
Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis (Scribner, 2003), 978-0743234900
The Craft of Research, 3rd Edition Booth, Colomb, & Williams (U Chicago, 2008), 978-0226065663
Film/Television:
Le Voyage dans la Lune. Directed by Georges Méliès. Star Film Company, 1902. Media Resources Center DVD 9625.
Doctor Who. “Kill the Moon.” Series 8, Episode 7. Directed by Paul Wilmshurst. Written by Peter Harness. BBC, October 4, 2014.
The First Men in the Moon. Directed by Nathan Juran. Columbia Pictures, 1964. Media Resources Center DVD 3297
Course Description:
The moon, our nearest astronomical neighbor, embodies a combination of foreignness and familiarity that has long stimulated the literary imagination. A long tradition of satirical and scientific writing has attempted to answer the question of whether the moon is populated and, if so, what kinds of people might live there, and what earth-dwellers’ relationship to them should be. In this class, we will think about how literary writing about the moon is influenced by ideas about the terrestrial foreign and unknown, particularly Renaissance writing about travel and religion. In addition to readings and film viewings, we will make use of resources on campus, such as the Bancroft Library and the Berkeley Art Museum.
This course focuses on literary analysis and the composition of well-argued essays, building upon the skills learned in R1A. We will also be discussing how to conduct scholarly research on literary and historical topics, and how to use scholarly sources in academic writing. The writing process will be broken down into manageable components, including extensive rewriting and feedback, and we will practice different academic genres including the abstract, the annotated bibliography, and the research paper. Active participation in class discussions and an assigned reading group is required.
Additional information:
This course fulfills the second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement in the College of Letters and Science. Class conducted in ENGLISH.
Upper-Division Courses
L’imaginaire urbain: cité, ville, banlieue
121A : Literary Themes, Genres, Structures
Summer 2016
V. Brutsche
Readings:
Selected readings; See Description
Description:
Paris est le plus délicieux des monstres…
–Balzac, Ferragus
This course will examine representations of the city, from the Renaissance to the present. From tensions between the city and the country, to the emergence of the city as metropolis, we will explore the various identities and associations tied to the idea of the city in French literature. Is the city the center of intellectual culture and refinement, or of vice and decadence? Is it a place imbued with the traces of history and memory, or is it the paragon of progress and modernity? How has the city been depicted as a site of struggle, as well as a site of creation, across various upheavals, revolutions, and transformations? How do representations of the city negotiate with its limits, both real and imagined?
Readings will include works and selections from authors such as: Joachim du Bellay (Antiquités de Rome); Molière (Le bourgeois gentilhomme); Montesquieu (Lettres Persanes); Honoré de Balzac (Ferragus); Victor Hugo (Notre-Dame de Paris) ; Eugène Sue (Les mystères de Paris) ; Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary); Charles Baudelaire (Spleen de Paris) ; Emile Zola (Au bonheur des dames) ; Marcel Proust (A la recherche du temps perdu) ; Louis Aragon (Le paysan de Paris) ; Raymond Queneau (Zazie dans le métro) ; Patrick Modiano (Rue des boutiques obscures) ; and François Bon (Paysage fer).
Additionally, we will study filmic representations of the city, including : Paris qui dort (Clair, 1925) ; Cléo de 5 à 7 (Varda, 1962) ; and La haine (Kassovitz, 1995).
Prerequisites:
French 102 or consent of Instructor.
Additional Information:
Satisfies Literary/Genre or Elective course requirement in French major. Satisfies Letters and Science breadth requirement in Arts and Literature.