Spring 2007

FR 320E • ADVANCED FRENCH I: WRITTEN EMPHASIS

Unique	Days	Time	Location	Instructor
36255	MWF	11:00 AM-12:00 PM	CBA 4.338	AYNESWORTH, D.

Course Description

This course will be taught in French.

The objective of this course is to allow the participants to improve their composition skills in French. The course has three major components: grammar review and refinement; reading and analysis of various kinds of texts, both literary and journalistic; a variety of composition assignments involving such techniques as description, analysis, persuasion, and managing complicated chronologies. The participants can expect to improve their command of French grammar, to increase their vocabulary, and to develop appropriate strategies for writing good compositions.

Grading Policy

ASSIGNMENTS:

Daily homework (workbook exercises and preparation for writing assignments)

Frequent quizzes

6 to 8 compositions

Hour tests

FINAL EXAM: YES

The semester grade will depend on performance in each of the categories mentioned above: homework, quizzes, compositions, hour tests, and final exam. The relative value of the categories will be decided by each professor and will be announced at the start of the semester.

Texts

John Barson, La Grammaire à l'oeuvre(5th edition), 1996, ITP, ISBN: 0-03-072394-9 John Barson, La Grammaire à l'oeuvre cahier de lab, (5th edition), 1997, ITP, ISBN: 0-03-072398-1 Hawkins, French Grammar and Usage, (2nd edition), 2001, MCG, ISBN: 0-658-01799-5 Oxford, Compact Oxford Hachette French Dictionary, 3rd Ed., Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0-19-861071-8

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