Prerequisite for French 321-01 Fall 2007. Req. successful completion of French 341 or 342 or instructor's approval. Prof. TennesseeBob Peckham (427E Humanities -Tel. 7424. Home 587-6562. e-mail: bobp@utm.edu).
GENERAL DESCRIPTION & GOALS: This is a 3-credit general French Civilization course, with historical view of France, but with a more detailed examination of life in the Fifth Republic (1958 to present) as a temporal and cultural framework, and Europe as a growing administrative and economic framework. Cultural objectives will be in line with the developmental scale of the
AATF National Commission on Cultural Competence indicators:
http://www.siu.edu/~aatf/underste.html
Here is my own set of non-developmental and topically related Cultural Competence goals for the class:
• Recognize, know and understand patterns of French behavior and attitudes, including thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, and family and other social groups.
• Acquire a base-line knowledge and recall of common facets of French culture, with regional and ethnic variations.
• Recognize, know and understand French day-to-day material culture, consumerism, technological and material environments.
• Acquire an understanding of French history and creative expression within French culture.
• Recognize, know and understand French cultural iconography, from both a French and non-French perspective.
• Recognize, know and understand cultural stereotypes of the French.
• Know and understand majority contrasted with minority French cultures.
• Know and understand the French differentiation between individual, group, national and international identities.
• Acquire an ability of competently comparing and contrasting with French American culture in all that we study.
MEDIA: Our textbook is Ross Steele's Civilisation Progressive du Français. Paris: CLE INTERNATIONAL, 2004. This book has its own exercises, which you will complete in your notebooks. Occasionally I will designate one to be handed in during class. These you will type and hand in as a printed document, in an email or as an email attachment (Microsoft Word 2004 or earlier). I have made two outlines of the entire book. Each contains hypertext learning objects of different kinds. These supplements are also to be considered regular course media:
OBJECTIVES & PROCEDURES: The course will be conducted in French. Our communication procedures will reflect the developmental concerns of the
ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines:
http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/languagelearning/otherresources/actflproficiencyguidelines/ACTFLProficiencyGuidelines.htm
All should be striving for discourse levels between "Intermediate Mid" and "Advanced"
ASSIGNMENTS will include
• The exercises in the book by chapter, answers written in your notebooks, except for one which you will type and hand in.
• Other assignments and projects, using a variety of resources: web sites, youtube videos, etc.
• Participate in a regular class online discussion (writing a minimum of 6 sentences per week)
• Write and hand in one-paragraph summaries of French news item per week (can be from French-language radio, television or newspaper)
• Demonstrate of a foundational knowledge French geography. demography and cultural iconography (by passing a challenging test with a "B" or better)
PROJECTS: TBA (from a list I am currently developing)
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ATTENDANCE:The class is designed to accommodate those with serious obligations which might keep them from regular attendance. These will take a more extensive role in online discussions, and will report in French on my posted lecture notes or on specially designated web sites. For other students, attendance is MANDATORY, with 10/1000 points subtracted from the final grade for each unexcused absence after 3. Any excuses MUST be written and of an official nature.
GRADE SCALE & DETERMINATION: 900 -1000 = A; 800 - 899 = B; 700- 799 = C; 600 - 699= D; below 600 = F. Best 5 out of 6 unit tests= 500, final (last unit) = 100, regular assigned homework and class participation = 200, online discussion and projects projects = 200.
Extra Credit Policy: See our cultural events policy web page:
http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/culturev.shtml
General & Ethical Expectations: We expect students to demonstrate a solid work ethic, and to conduct themeselves as ladies and gentlemen, with special attention given to the "Standards of Conduct" and "Academic Integrity" sections of
I will keep adding to this list of useful sites
My class, lab and office hours
Making Accents with MACs and PCs
Le grand dictionnaire terminologique
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CULTURE
France Pratique
La Ve
République (with multimedia and 2 chronologies)
France from A to Z
France in Images
Les chefs du gouvernement français
Service Public Françaises
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