FREN 209 Reading and Written Expression
Section 1 Professor Mahfoudi TTh 9:30—10:45
Section 2 Professor Duménil MW 1:25—2:40
Section 510 Professor Duménil MW 1 :25-2 :40
TEXTS:
A vous d’écrire (Atelier de français) Loriot-Raymer, Vialet, Muyskens. A vous d’écrire (cahier d’exercices) Loriot-Raymer, Vialet, Fandel
GOALS: This course concentrates on the development of reading and writing skills through stylistic and structural analyses of different types of authentic texts, as well as in-depth discussions of reading and writing strategies.
COURSEWORK:
During the semester, we will read and discuss articles and excerpts of various types of texts. Some of the readings will be prepared at home for in-class discussion, others will serve as sight-reading practice in class. A major focus of the class will be the acquisition and development of reading strategies such as activating background schemata, skimming and scanning, making predictions and inferences about a text, using contextual and syntactic clues, cognates, and knowledge of roots and suffixes to determine meaning, and identifying structural and stylistic devices used in texts. To improve your writing, we will practice complex and varied sentences and logically-connected paragraphs. During the semester you will write four moderate-length compositions which will be developed and expanded over a period of time (including self- and peer editing).
Reading/Writing Journal: In addition to the reading work we do for class, and the four larger compositions, students will be required to turn in a total of 10 (ten) reading/writing journals.
EVALUATION:
Homework/Preparation/Participation: 25%; Reading Quizzes (4): 20%; Compositions (4): 20%; Reading/Writing journals (10): 20%; Final Portfolio: 15%.
Section 510
In addition to regular quizzes and weekly journal assignments students will write a research paper.

FREN 210 Oral Communication
Section 1 Professor Duffy MWF 1:25-2:15
Section 2 Professor Guillemin MWF 10:10—11:00
Section 3 Professor Guillemin MWF 11:15—12:05
In this course students increase their ability to communicate orally in French. Specifically, students will learn to understand French as it is spoken by the French and by the worldwide speakers of French themselves and to participate in conversations about a variety of topics based on a series of important French-language films. Students will watch the films outside of class (with subtitles) and then will view certain scenes in class (without subtitles). At the same time, students will improve their pronunciation of French by doing phonetic exercises and recording passages based on these films. Class procedures will involve viewing and discussing scenes, role playing and other activities. Outside of class, students are expected to view films as well as to get more listening practice with other kinds of listening materials (televised or radio news, for example) of their choice. Grades are based on recordings, phonetic assignments, blogs and podcasts, a listening journal, class participation and preparation, listening and vocabulary tests, a mid-term and a final interview, and a final listening exam. Text: Mise en scène: cinéma et lecture. Kreuger, Weber, and Martin.

SCHC 263H Communication and Culture
Section 501 Professor Lomicka TTh 8:00—9:15 PM
French 210 (spring) (listed as SCCC 263H: Prosem French Communication and Culture) focuses on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening through authentic materials and collaborative work with native speakers of French. This course integrates students' learning of French with technology and connects USC students with native speakers at a French university in Troyes, France. The special features of this course include: regular correspondence with French students via e-mail and blogs, weekly videoconferencing with French students, weekly chat sessions with French students, a partially subsidized trip to France to visit the French students during spring break (if you are in the Honors College), a visit to Columbia, South Carolina by the French students.
It is preferable that you take my Fall 2006 French 209, section 501 in order to enroll in SCCC263H in the spring or contact me to request permission. 5 non honors spots are available.

FREN 300 French Phonetics
Section 1 Professor Duménil MWF: 11:15-12:05
Text: Duménil A.: Facile à dire: Les Sons du français. 2003. Prentice Hall.
The major goals of this course are to help students improve their pronunciation while they acquire the basic rules of standardized spoken French. The course takes into account the major contrastive features of the sounds of French and English and addresses the particular challenges that American native speakers face when learning to pronounce French. In addition, students will learn to recognize and transcribe with accuracy the major speech variations which exist among native speakers.
Grading system: Class participation : 20%; Pronunciation and Listening tapes: 25%; Exams 1 & 2: 20%; Mid-Term Exam: 15%; Final Exam: 20%.

FREN 307 Oral Practice
Section 1 Professor Duménil TTh 12:30—1:45
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course will enable the students to practice oral French, in their attempt to reach a level of proficiency of "Intermediate High".
CLASS ORGANIZATION:
Students will discuss articles, movies, videos, radio broadcasts which they will have prepared prior to coming to class.
GRADING:
Pass/fail. To get a PASS, the students cannot miss more than one class, and they also will have to participate in discussions. Note that there is no final exam.

FREN 309 Introduction to French Texts
Section 1 Professor Persels MWF 11:15—12:05
Pour les amateurs d’émotions fortes… Pierre Bellemare is the celebrated author of many volumes of “true life” crime stories and supernatural tales, and his voice is a familiar one on French radio. We will read, hear and discuss many of his stories and others, as well as follow crime reporting in the current French press via the Internet. Focus will be on understanding and producing both written and spoken narrative as well as increasing active proficiency in idiomatic French.
TEXTS:
Bellemare, Pierre and Jacques Antoine. Les dossiers d’interpol 5 (Le Livre de Poche, 1979); Bellemare, Pierre and Marie-Thérèse Cuny, La peur derrière la porte. Récits d’épouvante 2 (TF1 Editions, 1991); a sophisticated French-English dictionary (e.g., Collins/Robert). Supplemental material provided by instructor via BlackBoard.
GRADES:
Quizzes (both scheduled and pop), 30%; Class Participation 10%; Written reading and listening summaries, 20%; Final written project 40%.

Section 2 Professor Henry TTh 9:30-10:45
TEXTS:
Baker, Panaché Littéraire (PL), Gac-Artigas, Sans Détour, A sophisticated French-English dictionary, supplements provided by instructor.
GOALS:
This course is designed to give students practice in reading various types of French texts, from advertisements, newspaper articles and essays or literature, with emphasis on accurate comprehension as opposed to literary analysis.
FINAL GRADES:
Final grades will be determined according to the following scale:
Quizzes & Exercises& Oral Participation 25% ; Exams (2) 50% ; Internet Project 25%.
PROCEDURES:
Methods and assignments will vary according to immediate goals, all of which will be explained in detail as the course develops. Both intensive and extensive readings will be assigned. Intensive reading focuses on comprehension at sentence level and includes the procedures of contrastive rhetorics. Students are expected to analyze and comprehend semantically and syntactically all components included in the utterance. The primary verification at this level is translation into English (writing exercises in French will be assigened periodically in order to activate vocabulary, structure, etc.) Extensive readings are protracted and include discussion of content. Extensive reading goes beyond sentence-level comprehension to include the paragraph, the page, the chapter or act (of a play), an entire text. Exercises and quizzes covering verb forms, vocabulary, syntax, and grammar, as they relate to reading, are conceived to enhance the student’s ability to comprehend and appreciate French texts. The “Internet Project” is a series of ten individualized outside readings gleaned from the internet. Students will present a brief oral synopsis of these readings in class. The written “IP” (brief synopses [in French] and a brief analytical essay [in English]) will be due at the end of the course.
ATTENDANCE POLICY:
Since a good deal of emphasis will be placed on problem analysis in class, it is essential that students come prepared and attend every day. Absences in excess of three will thus result in a penalty to the student’s grade.

FREN 310 Advanced Oral Communication
Section 1 Professor Grimes MWF 12:20-1:25
Section 2 Professor Grimes MWF 1:25—2:15
Prerequisite: French 209 and 210 or equivalent. French 307 is a recommended pre- or co-requisite. Required for French major and minor.
There are no books required, other than a good French dictionary. The Internet is the manual.
Course Description:
This course attempts to bring the student to a level of proficiency of "Intermediate High" in speaking ability, and "Advanced" in listening comprehension, using the French news as backdrop. The different audio and written media material will thus serve as a vehicle not only for discussions but also for grammatical review, and vocabulary buildup.
Course organization: Students will read and listen to a variety of authentic French news media, and complete structured written, and oral exercises based on these materials, in preparation for discussions in class. They will also prepare oral, and written summaries of news programs, give oral presentations. There is a listening and/or vocabulary quiz every week.
Grading system: Participation / homework 30%, Press Reviews 20%, Listening/Vocabulary quizzes 30%, Exam 20%.

FREN 311 Advanced Composition
Section 1 Professor Lane TTh 9:30-10:45
Course Goals: Students will learn how to develop their writing and editing skills while manipulating complex sentence structures and acquiring expanded vocabulary in order to enhance their written French under a variety of style registers.
Course Description:
On a daily basis, students are expected to have read the grammar explanations and done the exercises listed in the textbook before they come to class in order to be prepared to manipulate the grammar presented in the pages assigned for that day. Additional homework assignments will be given on a regular basis and students are expected to have these assignments ready on the specific day given by the instructor. These assignments include, but are not limited to, vocabulary building activities, short compositions, and research on dictionary entries.
The class format will consist in discussions, readings, vocabulary-building activities and in-class compositions. Students will work individually for some assignments and in pairs for others. If necessary, short grammar-based pop quizzes will be given.

FREN 330 French Theater Experience
Section 1 Professor Chabra TTh 3:30—4:45
COURSE: Study, staging & performance of French-language play. Performance dates are Friday & Saturday, April 11th and 12th and a special French Day performance the afternoon of Wed., April 9th. Grade is based on mid-term line memorization exam, participation & performance. Course conducted in French.
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Text (to be announced) & web materials on BlackBoard. You will also be responsible for providing your costume(s).
Course listed “permission only” so please contact Prof. Chabra, chabras@gwm.sc.edu (or in person at office located in the Humanities office building # 724)

FREN 397 French Film Experience
Section 1 Professor Warehime M 1:25—2:40; W 1:25—3:30 PM
An overview of French cinema, focusing on important films and well-known directors. The course is structured chronologically but focuses on the 30s, the so-called Golden Age of French cinema; and the La Nouvelle Vague (1959-1962), which had a tremendous impact on filmmaking worldwide. The last films we will see are second and third generations of filmmakers following the New Wave which will take us through the millennium.
Students will see approximately one film a week. There will be three short papers, a midterm and a final examination covering material from the second half of the semester.

FREN 416 Advanced Business French
Section 1 Professor Day MWF 12:20—1:10
French 416 is designed to improve all communication skills in French, with special emphasis on developing proficiency with language that is characteristic of a business setting. This includes mastering some specialized terms, but also acquiring cultural knowledge about life in France: banking practices, postal services, taxes, national insurance benefits, employer-employee relations, organization of companies, and so forth. Writing exercises for the course include business letters and short answers to questions on various commercial matters. Oral work involves discussion of business issues, exercises with new terminology, and short presentations or simulations. The course is conducted in French. There will be regular short quizzes, a midterm and a final; no papers. This course prepares students for the business French proficiency exam administered by the Paris Chamber of Commerce, “Diplôme de français des affaires, degré 1.”

FREN 452 Literature and Culture After 1800
Section 1 Professor Henry TTh 12:30—1 :45
Paris : « le noyau du sensorium »
« Paris est le noyau du sensorium », écrit Jules Michelet dans Tableau de la France. Cela veut dire que toute l’histoire de la France s’échafaude autour de la capitale. Le but du cours est de rendre compte de cette histoire au moyen de la lecture et de la discussion d’une pléiade d’ouvrages (roman, théâtre, poésie, cinéma). Les ouvrages,chacun mettant en relief un moment décisif de l’histoire à partir de la Révolution de 1789, sont d’une grande diversité. Les voici en ordre chronologique : Ourika (1823, roman, Claire de Duras), La dame aux camélias (1852, pièce de théâtre, Alexandre Dumas fils), Les tableaux parisiens (1861, poésie, Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire), Le ventre de Paris (1873, roman [extraits], Emile Zola), Au revoir les enfants (1987, film, Louis Malle), La clôture (2002, roman, Jean Rolin).
Au-delà de la pleine participation à la discussion des ouvrages (20%), l’étudiant devra passer deux examens (50%) et fera un compte rendu d’un ouvrage au choix (30%).
Monsieur Henry vous souhaite la bienvenue au cours.

SCHC 363S Seminar: How the French Discovered America
Section 501 Professor Persels MWF 12:20-1:10
A few decades after Columbus, the French also set out to conquer what they considered to be their fair share of trans-Atlantic empire and trade, thumbing their Gallic noses, as it were, at the Spanish and Portuguese and the various partisan papal bulls and treaties that attempted to award all new European discoveries to them. Between the early 1530s and the end of the 1560s, the French explored and attempted to set up colonies along the coasts of the Americas from as far north as the Saint Lawrence river to as far south as the bay of Rio de Janeiro, with decidedly mixed, usually disastrous results. Three of those attempts in particular left a long, often polemical, always enthralling paper trail that tells us as much about early modern French themselves as it does about the indigenous populations they encountered and the lands they tried to claim.
Through reading and discussing original accounts, we will pursue some of the thorny philosophical, religious, ethical and moral issues that this quite literal clash of cultures raised. We will endeavor to consider them from both contemporary and modern perspectives, aided in this by pursuing these issues down through select modern renderings of and reactions to early modern French and, by extension, European, exploration and conquest. The hope is to understand better the very conflicted legacy of the first trans-Atlantic age.
Tentative list of Readings and Viewings
Jacques Cartier, The Voyages of Jacques Cartier (Canada)
René Laudonnière, Three Voyages (South Carolina, Florida)
Jean de Léry, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
Michel de Montaigne, “On Cannibals,” “On Coaches”
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Aimé Césaire, A Tempest
Jean-Claude Carrière, The Controversy of Valladolid
Nelson Pereira dos Santos, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
Lothaire Bluteau, Black Robe