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Language
Elementary French, first semester (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
1
Summer 2018
Class No: 13486
Instructor: B. Imel
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/Placement:
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:
All sections are conducted entirely in French.
Elementary French, second semester (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
2
Summer 2018
Class No: 13490
Instructor: L. Dixon
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/Placement:
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. For additional placement information please see Lower Division Placement Guidelines.
Additional information:
All sections are conducted entirely in French.
Intermediate French (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
3
Summer 2018
Instructor: S. Christofides
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/Placement:
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. For additional placement information please see Lower Division Placement Guidelines.
Additional information:
All sections are conducted entirely in French.
Advanced Intermediate French (Summer Session C -- 8 weeks)
4
Summer 2018
Class No: 13492
Instructor: T. Blakeney
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/Placement:
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. For additional placement information please see Lower Division Placement Guidelines.
Additional information:
All sections are conducted entirely in French.
Reading and Composition (R&C)
Black Matter(s): Representing Blackness(es) Across Space, Time and Bodies
R1B (Section 1) : English Composition through French Literature in Translation (Summer Session D -- 6 weeks)
Summer 2018
Class No: 13488
Instructor: C. Stofle
Readings:
— Selection of Poems by Leopold Sedar Senghor
— Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Aimé Césaire
— Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
— I Spit on Your Graves, Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course will examine critically various strategies deployed by authors and filmmakers to reassign power, beauty and intellectual autonomy to Black bodies. Films, essays and writings from the Francophone (French, Caribbean and African) canon will be put in conversation with American works to tease out global issues of representations.
Together we will explore the thin boundary between objectification/exotization and praise, particularly in the case of feminine depiction; we will interrogate various iterations of violence performed unto and by Black bodies and their signification; and we will ask how non-classic forms of representation (for instance, comedies or horror films) contribute to new ways of conceptualizing race for a broad public.
Additional information:
French R1B fulfills the second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement in the College of Letters and Science. Class conducted in ENGLISH.
"This Could All Be Yours Someday" -- Building the Nation through Literature
R1B (Section 2) : English Composition through French Literature in Translation (Summer Session D -- 6 weeks)
Summer 2018
Class No: 13489
Instructor: M. Arrigo
Readings:
Imagined Communities
Sab
The Suns of Independence
Persepolis
The Class
Course Description:
This course will focus broadly on how literature shapes the “nation” and mediates our relationship to it. Using concepts from Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities as a starting point, we will focus on a variety of texts, principally from traditions of French expression, meant to consider various themes and questions: Who belongs to the nation? How should the nation be represented? What is its genesis story? What versions of history should constitute the nation’s shared memory? Texts will range from Kourouma’s masterwork of disenchantment The Suns of Independence to Bégaudau’s fictionalized account of his experience as a French teacher in a schoolroom in Paris in modern France. Beyond textual readings, students will develop practical skills involved in the research process including searching for secondary sources, note-taking, bibliographical curation, as well as further improving analytic and argumentative writing skills.
This course will be oriented toward the development of research skills and the production of two papers.
Upper-Division Courses
Writing in French (Summer Session D -- 6 weeks)
102
Summer 2018
Class No: 15098
Instructor: R. Shuh
Readings:
Course Reader; other readings as assigned by Instructor
Course Description:
This course introduces students to different modes of proposing and furthering a point of view or argument (whether in a critical essay, through dramatic metaphor, or in plays or short stories). To this end, we read passages from a variety of works, such as critical essays, novels, and plays, in order to study their use of language, their structure, and their tactics of persuasion. Through readings on problems of language and the visual arts, we explore the ways in which words and images structure thought, communication and interactions of individuals and societies. Great attention is paid, both through the readings and through written work, to questions of interpretation as well as to the logical and coherent development of reading and writing skills leading to correct and effective expression in French.
Prerequisites/Placement:
French 102 is open to students with a B- grade or above in French 4 at UC Berkeley. Students who have taken the equivalent of a third-year college-level French course elsewhere may also enroll in French 102, and should contact the Instructor regarding placement by email.
Additional information:
French 102 is the sole prerequisite to all UCB French courses numbered 103 and above. Course open to non-native speakers of French only. Course conducted in French. Satisfies Letters and Science breadth requirement in International Studies. Satisfies 102 requirement in French major; satisfied 1 course requirement in French minor.
Awakenings of Desire in French Literature and Film
121A : Literary Themes, Genres, Structures (Summer Session D -- 6 weeks)
Summer 2018
Class No: 15100
Instructor: M. Phillips
Readings/Films:
Readings: Colette, Le Blé en herbe; Diderot, La Religieuse; Duras, L’Amant; Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses; Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse
Films: Audrey, Gigi
Malle, Le Souffle au cœur
Paronnaud, Persepolis
Sciamma, Bande de filles
Téchiné, Quand on a 17 ans
Course Description:
How have French writers of different time periods told stories about sexual exploration and discovery? How are writing and reading connected to learning about sexuality? In order to think about these questions, we will study a variety of textual representations of awakenings of desire and investigate intersections of the coming-of-age story with the formation of sexual identity. These textual representations include novels and films from the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will analyze portrayals of desire, rejection and shame in various cultural and historical contexts, and discuss questions of sexual orientation and sexual violence in French literature and cinema.
Prerequisites:
French 102 or consent of Instructor.
Additional Information:
Satisfies 1 “Literaure/Genre” or 1 “Elective” course requirement in French major; satisfies 1 course requirement in French minor. Satisfies Letters and Science breadth requirement in Arts and Literature or International Studies.