Summer 2009 Course Guide

Listed in this Summer 2009 Course Guide are the descriptions of the courses offered in FRANCE. We have listed both the University of New Orleans General Catalog description, which contains information on prerequisites and requirements, and the professor's addendum describing the course as it will be taught by the professor.

Guest students are responsible for securing approval from their own schools for the transfer of course credits . All credits from the University of New Orleans are fully transferable.

In keeping with the purpose of The Glories of France Program, the courses selected are those that can benefit from their setting in France and Europe. A concerted effort will be made in all courses to reinforce classroom instruction with the rich cultural surroundings. All courses listed within carry three hours of semester credit. The academic regulations currently in force at the University of New Orleans will apply in France as well. Freshmen and sophomores are eligible to enroll in courses numbered 1000 and 2000; and upperclassmen (over 59 semester credit hours) may take any of these courses as well as those numbered either 3000 or 4000. Graduate students are eligible to enroll in all courses offered in the program.

All students must enroll in at least 6 hours and maintain that throughout the program.

Please read the course descriptions very carefully and make decisions based on need and the advice given by your college or university advisor or department/college. It is the responsibility of all students, including continuing UNO students, to ensure that their courses fit into their chosen curriculum.

Summer 2009 Courses

EDSP 4440 & 4440G - Sign Language 1

Course Description: Students may enroll in this 3 credit hour course for either undergraduate or graduate credit. This is a course meets the requirements for a first foreign language course in some departments (e.g., psychology). Check with your department for further information.

Professor's Addendum: Sign language 1 is an introductory course in manual communication. Students will begin with the fingerspelled alphabet and move on to the use of sign language in conversational settings. The linguistic history of American Sign Language is intermeshed with French Sign Language. We will look at ASL linguistic structures and compare and contrast them with FSL structures noting how languages are dynamic and their development is bound to place and time. We will discuss regional differences in sign language both in the US and in France and have guest lecturers showing us both standard (Parisian) French Sign Language and Southern French Sign language.

As a culminating activity, we travel to Paris to visit the world famous Paris School for the Deaf (L'Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris) and dine at "Café Signe (Café Sign)", a deaf owned and operated bistro in the 14 th A rrondissement  of Paris.

http://www.cafesignes.com/

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0702/p07s02-woeu.html

EDSP 4440 & 4440G - Foundations of Deaf Education - The French connection: The cultural legacy of the American Deaf community.

Course Description: Students may enroll in this 3 credit hour course for either undergraduate or graduate credit. This is a course required by the state of Louisiana for teacher add-on certification in the area of hearing impairments.

Professor's Addendum: Topics covered in this course include: The history of deaf education from early European beginnings to the establishment of French Sign Language (FSL) and its importation to the United States in the 1800's, and how the Deaf community's use of American Sign Language (ASL) in our country is still a sister language with FSL. We will discuss the audiological and cultural implications of belonging to the Deaf signing community both in America and France and interact through field study assignments and interviews with local deaf groups and individuals to better understand what it is like to belong to a linguistic sub-culture.

As a culminating activity, we travel to Paris to visit the world famous Paris School for the Deaf (L'Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris) and dine at "Café Signe (Café Sign)", a deaf owned and operated bistro in the 14 th A rrondissement  of Paris. http://www.cafesignes.com/
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0702/p07s02-woeu.html

(Text: Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Anne T. Quartararo

Description: A depiction of the struggle for Deaf French people to preserve their cultural heritage from the French Revolution in 1789 to their social activism against oralism through 1900.)

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ENGL 2398 - Special Studies Literature & Language: American Expatriates

Catalog Description: Reading , evaluation, and discussion of selected writers works or literary topics. May be repeated once for credit. --Prerequisite English 1158

Professor's Addendum: We will explore the work of American Expatriate writers in France in the late 19 th   Century (Wharton, James, Crane) and early to mid-Twentieth Century (Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Baldwin, Miller, Nin) ). Our discussions will center on two novels as well as short stories and excerpts from longer works by these authors.

ENGL 2151 - Intro Non-Fictional Writing: Write of Passage

Catalog Description: The theory and practice of exposition, description, and narration

Professor's Addendum: In this course, students will write about their experience in France as well as their travels to Spain , Italy and other nearby regions.  They will read the works of known essayists, especially in the genre of Travel Writing, to examine approaches and styles, and they will participate in writers' workshops in addition to collaborating with one another on projects.  At the end of the term, students will have a portfolio of their own work (journal, personal essay, analysis, etc.) that will serve as a memoir of their experience in the Glories of France.

French 1001 - Basic French I           

Course Description: The first in a sequence of courses developing all four language skills: speaking, understanding, writing and reading. Audio-visual items will be used to enhance the process of language acquisition.

French 1002 - Basic French II

Prerequisite: FREN 1001 or consent of department. A continuation of FREN 1001.

French 2001 - Intermediate French I

Prerequisite: FREN 1002 or consent of department. Continuation of the development of all four language skills: speaking, understanding, writing, and reading with special emphasis on the last skill.

French 2002 - Intermediate French II

Prerequisite: FREN 2001 or consent of department. Readings and exercises in French. Emphasis on the development of advanced reading and translation skills.

French 3031 - French Conversation

Prerequisite: FREN 2002 or consent of department. Conversation, interpretations and reports for practicing the spoken language.

This course will give students of the language the opportunity to improve their oral proficiency in French.

FREN 3090 -Advanced Practical French

Prerequisite: Completion of beginning and intermediate level of the four-skills French sequence French 1001, 1002, 2001, and 2002, or equivalent credit.

Professor's Addendum: This course offers intensive instruction in the French language, through the use of Montpellier itself as the textbook. Students will read and discuss a pre-prepared packet of cultural readings and will complete a series of practical tasks in the city, (such as getting information at the tourist bureau, going to the grocery, buying public transportation tickets, and interviewing people). Students will also complete brief assignments during excursions outside the city. Particular emphasis will be placed on oral proficiency, socio-linguistic competence, and cultural awareness. The class will be conducted in French.

FREN 3403 - Special Topics in French Literature :19 th and 20 th -Century French Literature Through Film

Prerequisite: French 2002 or consent of department.

Professor's Addendum: This course offers an introduction to French literature of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, through the optic of film. Students will read a pre-prepared packet of excerpts in French from each text and will view the corresponding film in French, with English subtitles. The class will include brief lectures and discussions about both the texts and the films, and will incorporate some literature from the French South. The class will be conducted in French and English, as needed. Texts and films include:

Le Colonel Chabert
Madame Bovary
Germinal
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources

FRENCH 4031 - Advanced French Conversation

This course will give advanced students of the language the opportunity to improve their oral proficiency in French.

Professor's Addendum: Designed to improve command of spoken French as well as comprehension, the course also allows students to build vocabulary through intensive speaking. Students will gain familiarity with a variety of spoken styles including the various "niveaux de langue" (langue formelle, langue familière, argot). The preparation for this course will include reports on magazine and newspaper articles, movies, news to be presented and discussed during class time.

There will be weekly oral presentations (individual or in small groups), weekly quizzes on the vocabulary and a final interview.

Graduate students will give one longer presentation on a special topic previously agreed upon by student and instructor.

No textbook required for this course. I will provide photocopies.

FRENCH 4201 - French Civilization I
Monsters, Magic and the Supernatural in Southern France

Professor's Addendum: In the second half of the 18 th century, a mysterious beast haunts the forests of Gevaudan north of Montpellier (maybe a wolf, maybe an unknown species, or perhaps a werewolf?) killing hundreds of villagers and terrorizing all. A secret treasure buried in Rennes-le-Château involving secret societies, coded documents, the Knight Templars, sacred geometry, a mysterious lineage beginning with the Merovingian kings and the possible location of the tomb of Christ. In peaceful Salon-de-Provence, in the 17 th century, Michel de Nostredame (the famous Nostradamus) writes his prophecies about the third world war and the end of the world. Fiction, hoax or reality?

These are just some of the mysteries that we will investigate in the course. We will watch the movie Le Pacte des loups based on the story of the "Bête du Gévaudan" and documentaries on Rennes-le-Château.

There will be a mid-term and a final examination. Graduate students will give a presentation.

No required text. I will provide photocopies for the readings.

FTCA 2090, 2091, AND 2092 or FTCA 4540
Special topics in Film, Theater, and Communication Arts
The Development of the Cinema

Prerequisite: Consent of the Department. Each course is offered for one-third of a semester. Three hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory weekly, depending on topics. Topics vary from semester to semester. Individual course numbers may not be repeated.

Professor's Addendum: A history of the development of the cinema from the beginnings to the present day. Emphasis on the Artistic, social, economic, and technical phenomena which have influenced the growth of international films. Important representative films will be screened and discussed. Particular attention will be given to the development of European Cinema from the early 20th Century to the present, with emphasis on the films of Renoir, The French New Wave, the German and Soviet Golden Ages and the impact of American Film. Films will be screened in class and discussed. This course may be taken in conjunction with the writing program for those interested in film history, theory, and criticism. Pertinent field trips will be scheduled on site.

HIST 2991/4991 - Special Studies in History

Prerequisite: Topic may vary from semester to semester. The course may be repeated once for credit.

Professor's Addendum : Topic for the Glories of France - The Glories of French History. A survey course in the History of France highlighting: Roman Gaul, The Development of the French Nation State in the Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Age of Revolution and Napoleon and Modern France.

Pertinent field trips will be scheduled on site.

Workshops

LOW RESIDENCY MFA COURSES     GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY

CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING WORKSHOP

ENGLISH 4154/6174

Admission by permission of the department. Workshop practice and readings in the craft of writing creative nonfiction.  Following warm-up writing activities in description, scene, characterization, and investigation, students will write and submit for workshop critique three works of creative nonfiction, at least one that will include research, and they will substantially revise their choice of one of these works.  They will write critiques of their peers' drafts and read a selected works of creative nonfiction-such as personal essays, literary journalism, travel writing, memoir, writing about the natural world, humor, biographical profiles, and investigative reporting.

Course readings drawn from a wide selection that I maintain on Blackboard.

Supplemental text:   Strunk and White, The Elements of Style .  4 th edition.