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FRNH 221n Intermediate French (Reading)

Professor J. Sanford Dugan

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Description:

This is an on-line course designed to guide second-year French students to better comprehension in reading French and offering three semester hours of college credit. It is based on a popular reader, provides specific exercises, and offers interaction with the instructor and other students over the World Wide Web.

It assumes a basic knowledge of French (two college semesters or the equivalent). It requires a textbook, some ancillary resources, access to the Internet, and a Web browser. Students must register at Eastern Michigan University and obtain a user identification and password on the E.M.U. VMS system in order to use Caucus.

Course Goals, Activities, and Test Procedures:

  1. Goal: Understand written French
    1. Activities
      1. Translation (French to English)
      2. Reading
    2. Test item: «Version» (Translation - French to English. You read French; you write English.)

  2. Goal: Develop idiomatic French
    1. Activities
      1. Translation (English to French)
      2. Reading
    2. Test item: «Thème» (Translation - English to French. You read English; you write French.)

  3. Goal: Know authors' names, titles of works
    1. Activity
      1. Reading
    2. Test items: Fill in the blank (authors' names, titles)

  4. Goal: Understand subtleties of literary writing
    1. Activity
      1. Reading
    2. Test items: Multiple-choice questions on a text passage

  5. Goal: Understand literary texts at a basic level and more deeply
    1. Activities
      1. Reading
      2. Exercises (compréhension, déduction)
    2. Test items: Short-answer questions

  6. Goal: Write cogently
    1. Activities
      1. Reading
      2. Writing brief essays
    2. Test item: Essay (100 words)

Prerequisites:

You should have at least one year of college French (10 credit hours) or the equivalent (e.g., two years of high-school French)


Requirements:

  1. Textbook: Schunk and Waisbrot. Explorations. Third edition. Publisher: Heinle & Heinle. This is the basic text of the course. All objectives, activities, and tests derive from the readings in this book.
  2. A good bilingual French-English dictionary (e.g., Roger Steiner.The New College French & English Dictionary.) This will help improve your active and passive vocabulary.
  3. Access to the World Wide Web. A computer, an Internet service provider, and a browser allow you to reach the materials posted for this course. They are also necessary for interaction with the instructor during the term.
  4. Test monitoring. An arrangement for secure, monitored testing is necessary.
  5. Participation. You will make regular contributions to the course conference located at an on-line bulletin board.
  6. Use of French. You are encouraged to use French as much as possible in your participation. Since the principal goal of the course is to improve your understanding of French and of the nuances of literary works, your responses in French will be graded only on their content, not on grammar. On tests, you may make your responses in English with no penalty.
  7. Registration. You must register with the E.M.U. Division of Continuing Education. The telephone number is (734) 487-0407.
  8. In order to access the Caucus bulletin board system, you must obtain a user name and password on the E.M.U. VMS computer system.

Participation, Using French:

Evaluation:

  1. Test I - 25%
  2. Test II - 25%
  3. Test III - 30%
  4. Participation - 20%

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