FRENCH 102 Elementary French II 5.0 Credits Spring 2008


Meeting times: MW 10:30-11:30 am Location: MW Duckering 354
TR 09:45-11:15 am TR Gruening 301
Instructor: Odile Bastille
Office: Gruening 607D Office hours: T 11:30 am - 1:30 pm or by appointment
Telephone: 474-7306 Email: odilebastille@yahoo.com
or fforb@uaf.edu
Web pages: http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/fforb/french102.html
http://frenchuaf.free-bb.com
http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/fforb/poemlist.html
Text: - Vis-à-Vis, Beginning French, Student Edition, by Evelyn Amon, Judith A. Muyskens, & Alice C. Omaggio Hadley, McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition;
- Workbook/Lab Manual to Accompany Vis-à-Vis, Beginning French, by Evelyn Amon, Judith A. Muyskens, & Alice C. Omaggio Hadley, McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition.

Course description and objectives:
This course is a first-year college-level French course designed for students who have taken French 101 or equivalent. This course builds on the first 7 chapters covered in French 101. French 102 furthers the introduction to the language and culture: development of competence and performance in the language through understanding, recognition and use of linguistic structures; increasing emphasis on speaking; vocabulary building; exploration of the cultural dimension, implicitly through language, and explicitly through texts and audiovisual materials. French 102 covers in their entirety Chapters 8-14 of the textbook, and also handpicked topics from Chapter 15&16 if time permits. Main grammatical topics thus include the construction and use of past tenses (passé composé, imparfait), future tense, pronouns (direct/indirect personal, relative), reflexive verbs, and conditional and subjunctive modes. French 102 combines lecturing as well as a strong oral participation by the students. Upon completion of French 102, students should be familiar with most grammatical constructions present in the French language; they should be able to easily converse, listen, read, and write about their daily life and that of others; they should also have acquired significant knowledge about French culture.
Class procedures and evaluation:

Prerequisites: French 101 or equivalent. Special circumstances may also warrant the instructor to waive this prerequisite.
Attendance/Participation (Special): Attendance and participation are essential components of any language acquisition class. Attendance will be taken daily. Only absences due to serious illness, family crisis, or university-sponsored non-social activities will be excused. Unexcused absences will be tallied and used to calculate your maximum grade in the class in the following way. Your attendance rate or one notch higher will be the top grade you may earn in this course. We meet for 55 times over the course of the semester, so for example, missing 6 times amounts a 89% attendance rate, hence your maximum grade for the class will be B+ or A- if all your other grade components are A- or above. Another "example" is that 23 absences or more is an automatic F for this course.

Homework (20%): A total of 14 homework assignments (in the form of written exercises from the Workbook) are to be turned in, two for each Chapter 8-14. Each assignment and its due date will be available and detailed on the webpage. I will accept one late homework per student with no questions asked, and no penalty. Each subsequent late homework will carry a penalty of 5% per day late. Regular homework grade is calculated in the following way: 75% is the ratio of completed assigned exercises to assigned exercises, and 25% is the ratio of right answers (plus extra credit right answers) to number of answers supplied. For example, the first assignment, Homework 8A, has 10 exercises, for a total of 90 answers to supply. If you complete all 10, with 75/90 correct answers, then your grade will be: 96%, but if you complete only 8, with 75/80 correct answers, then your grade will be: 83%. Most assignments will include some oral comprehension, and an audio link will be available on the website; if the oral exercise does not call for circling an answer, you will need to write down what you heard.
Quizzes (10%): There will be a minimum of 9 quizzes. They will be announced one or two class periods ahead. They consist of a short (5-8 min.) written drill at the beginning of class on current vocabulary and/or grammar point studied.
Chapter Exams (30%): At the end of Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, there will be an exam covering that particular chapter; the date for each of these is tentative on the schedule, as it will depend on our progress. If you are absent on the day of the exam, you need to make arrangements with me for a make-up one within a week of the actual exam. If extra credit was available on the day of the exam, it will not be for someone taking it late or early.
Oral Presentations (10%): Each student will have two 10-15 min. oral presentations to complete; one will occur before spring break, and the other towards the end of the semester at dates to be determined. Failure to present on your scheduled date will result in a zero. Further details will be discussed in class.
Forum Participation (5%): Weekly participation to our class's online discussion forum is required. After the initial special assignments of the first two weeks, you will need to post in French alternately one week: 1 question, and a link to a French-language website, then the next week: 2 answers to already posted questions.
Final Exam (25%): A comprehensive, final examination, covering Chapters 8-16 will be administered on Wednesday, May 7th from 10:15am-12:15pm in Duckering 354. For those unable to meet at that time, I will provide one alternate time & place. You must however have contacted me at least 3 weeks prior to the end of the semester, and we will schedule it then with the group concerned.

Resources: The students will be able to use the services of a free French tutor at the language lab (Gruening 609) at hours yet to be determined.
Disability Services: The Office of Disability Services implements the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and insures that UAF students have equal access to the campus and source materials. I will work with that office (203 WHIT, 474-7043) to provide reasonable accommodation to students with disabilities.

Grading policy
A+ 97-100
A 93-96
A- 90-92
B+ 87-89
B 83-86
B- 80-82
C+ 77-79
C 73-76
C- 70-72
D+ 67-69
D 63-66
D- 60-62
F Below 60


Tentative class calendar:


01/24 Premier jour de classe, Chapitre 8, Leçon 1
01/28-31 Chapitre 8, Leçons 2, 3, 4
02/4-7 Examen du Chapitre 8, Chapitre 9, Leçons 1, 2
02/11-14 Chapitre 9, Leçons 3, 4
02/18-21 Examen du Chapitre 9, Chapitre 10, Leçons 1, 2
02/25-28 Chapitre 10, Leçons 2, 3, 4, Présentation Orale #1
3/3-6 Examen du Chapitre 10, Chapitre 11, Leçon 1, Présentation Orale #1
3/10-13 No classes - Spring Break
3/17-20 Chapitre 11, Leçons 2, 3, 4
3/24-27 Examen du Chapitre 11, Chapitre 12, Leçons 1, 2
3/31-4/3 Chapitre 12, Leçons 3, 4
4/7-4/10 Examen du Chapitre 12, Chapitre 13, Leçons 1, 2
4/14-17 Chapitre 13, Leçons 3, 4, Présentation Orale #2
4/21-24 Examen du Chapitre 13, Chapitre 14, Leçons 1, 2, 3, Présentation Orale #2
4/28-5/1 Chapitre 14, Leçon 4, Chapitres 15&16, Présentation Orale #2
5/5-7 Révisions, Examen Final



Bon Semestre en Français 102!