ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES – SYLLABUS

COURSE: FRE 201- Intermediate French I SEMESTER: Fall 2020-Spring 2021

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: INTERACTION (9^th edition), Cengage – Textbook + iLrn Access Code

Contact Information

Professor Mlle Altmann

E-mail address maltmann@k12.tullyschools.org

World Languages Office Tully HS Rm 125

World Languages Office telephone number (315) 696-6235

Websites www.sunyocc.edu

www.tullyschools.org

OCC Campus Learning Center Gordon G-202

OCC Campus Language Tutoring Coulter C-104

Office of Accessibility and Resources (OAR)

Students may obtain needed accommodations through this office. You will receive a form to give to your instructors..

Course MON-FRI, Second Period

Office Hours Fourth Period

Important OCC Dates See the Academic Calendar www.sunyocc.edu for additional important dates

Classes begin September 10, 2020

Registration opens September 16, 2020

Registration closes September 30, 2020

Certificates of Residence Forms due October 6, 2020

Last day to drop a class October 27, 2020

NO CLASSES See TULLY SCHOOL DISTRICT CALENDAR 2020-2021

OCC MODERN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT - MISSION

The mission of the OCC Modern Languages Department is to enable students to acquire a better appreciation of other languages and cultures. Accordingly, the Department supports the College’s mission by enabling students to acquire skills needed to “live, work and thrive in our global community.” To this end the Modern Languages Department, offers instruction in American Sign Language, Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish, as well as literature and civilization courses.

• provides courses that fulfill the foreign language requirement for the AA in Humanities degree at OCC, SUNY General Education purposes, and New York State teacher certification.

• promotes a fuller understanding of the differences and similarities among global communities through course work, community involvement and study-abroad opportunities.

• fosters critical thinking through linguistic analysis and the comparison of diverse cultures.

• prepares students for further study and professional careers requiring competence in foreign languages and the understanding of other cultures.

• offers a Minor in World Languages and electives towards the Minor in Global Studies. For information contact modlang@sunyocc.edu.

STATEMENT ON DIVERSITY & INCLUSION:

Onondaga Community College is committed to fostering an inclusive learning environment that facilitates and supports student success. We believe that our campus is enriched and strengthened by diversity along a range of different dimensions. The various perspectives that stem from the multifaceted identities and experiences of our campus community are invaluable assets in the classroom that bring complexity and nuance to the process of critical thinking as well as intellectual and personal growth. We are all vital in promoting and cultivating a culture of respect that honors and affirms the rights, safety, dignity, and worth of every individual.

SUCCESS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Your success in this class depends on your effort to:

• Take a class that better matches your level of proficiency in the language.

• Be in class all of the time and take full responsibility over your learning experience.

• Actively, independently and enthusiastically engage in the learning process.

• Make positive and enriching contributions to the class.

• Be organized, study, practice, and complete all assigned homework on time.

• Study for tests, quizzes and any other formal EVALUATIONS.

• Participate in cooperative learning opportunities.

• Make every effort to practice with native language users outside of class.

• Celebrate every small progress you make (don’t be hard on yourself).

• Be respectful of the language and cultures being learned.

• Respect your classmates and your instructor.

• Get help in a timely manner from your instructors, the Content Tutoring Center, the Office of Students with Disabilities, the Study Skills Center and more.

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND PLACEMENT

This dynamic course draws upon previously acquired knowledge while introducing students to more complex grammatical and lexical structures to further develop communicative proficiency and cultural knowledge. Conducted mostly in Spanish. Upon successful completion of FRE 201, students may enroll in FRE 202. This course fulfills the Global Awareness requirement at OCC. Prerequisites: FRE 102, or FRE 165, or 4 years of HS French, or POI.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of a semester of study, students will be able to perform as indicated in each of the following areas:

1. Listening comprehension:

a. Follow a class conducted almost entirely in French.

b. Demonstrate an understanding of a native speaker who speaks clearly.

c. Demonstrate an understanding of the main ideas of selected audio or video tapes at

appropriate level.

2. Speaking:

a. Pronounce well enough to be understood by a native speaker with little difficulty.

b. Express personal ideas and basic opinions based on life experiences, readings and

videos.

3. Reading:

Demonstrate an understanding of ideas in text selections and excerpts from authentic,

non- complex newspapers, magazines and short stories written for a wide audience.

4. Writing:

a. Write summaries and reactions to issues presented on videos or readings with little

difficulty.

b. Write compositions on assigned topics, including giving opinions and making

recommendations.

c. Use basic linguistic, grammatical and idiomatic forms with little difficulty while developing skills for the use of more complex structures.

5. Cultural information:

a. Demonstrate an understanding of the fairly complex cultural and social issues of the

Francophone World.

b. Identify the cultural differences among the various Francophone countries.

c. Compare cultural and social issues with the students’ own society.

METHODOLOGY

Through the integration of the different language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing as well as the introduction of important cultural concepts, students will learn to communicate in the target language in progressively more involved daily life situations.

EVALUATION AND GRADING

We will cover chapters 1 through 5 of your textbook in this course. Your final grade will be based on the following:

Participation (includes daily use of target language) 20%

Homework 20%

Formal evaluations 40%

Final exam (comprehensive) 20%

SCALE:

A 94-100

A- 90-93

B+ 87-89

B 84-86

B- 80-83

C+ 77-79

C 74-76

C- 70-73

D 65-69

F- 0-64

PARTICIPATION (20%) and ATTENDANCE

Note that although class attendance is important, it is not the same as class participation. Participation grades will be based on the students daily level of preparedness, level of independent engagement and participation in the learning process, spontaneous volunteering, use and quality of the target language, and respect for others, and for the culture being learned, which includes not using any electronic devices in class (including cell phones), bringing food or children to class, or being disruptive in any other way. If you are not in class to participate, your participation grade for that day will be a 0.

The College’s attendance policy and financial aid regulations allow instructors to withdraw (with a grade of “UF”) a student from a course due to excessive absences in accordance with Rule IIIE. Faculty will be allowed to exercise this option when a student’s total number of absences exceed the equivalent of two weeks of classes in a 15-week semester. This may affect a student’s financial aid situation.

It is the student’s responsibility to keep track of the number of absences and to inform the instructor of an anticipated absence ahead of time. Faculty may require students to document their absence. Students are responsible for making up any missed work as per instructor’s policy.

HOMEWORK (20%)

Workbook/Lab manual, compositions or other homework assignments are due on assigned dates. Failure to submit work on time will negatively impact your homework grade.

FORMAL EVALUATIONS (40%)

Exams and other formal evaluations will be given as per your Course Schedule and some may be electronically submitted. The ML Department’s policy states that exams (or other formal evaluations) will not be allowed to be taken late or re-taken. In the event of a documented emergency the day of an exam, your professor will decide whether the justification is appropriate to allow you to take a make-up exam and when. It is up to your instructor whether to allow minor quizzes to be re-taken or made up.

FINAL EXAM (20%)

Final exams are comprehensive and will be given primarily during final exam week.

ACADEMIC HONESTY

All students at OCC are expected to adhere to the values of intellectual and academic honesty and integrity. Violations of academic honesty will not be tolerated, including the use of translation websites. These violations will result in penalties in accordance with policies and penalties established by the instructor, the ML Department and the College. See Student Handbook or OCC’s webpage for more information on your rights and responsibilities.

Interaction Langue et Culture

OCC 201/French IV

Course Outline

Chapitre 1: le commerce et la consommation

Culture

zone euro

petites et les grandes surfaces

boutiques de commerçants et galaries marchandes

les grands magasins

Le Montréal souterrain

Entre tradition et modernité: le commerce à Abidjan

La cuisine d’origine francophone en Louisiane

Le cabas

Structures et Vocabulaire

Present Tense of Regular -ER Verbs

Stem Changing -ER Verbs

Imperative

Irregular Verbs: être, aller, faire, avoir

Nouns

Articles

Voilà vs Il y a

Chapitre 2: les modes de vie

Culture

Qui habite où?

Sarcelles: une cité de banlieue

Place de Catalogne

Le vieux Paris

Le Paris du Baron Haussmann

Bruxelles: ville francophone à dimension internationale

Les HLMs ou logements sociaux

Le téléphone portable: une révolution sociale au Cameroun

Structures et Vocabulaire

Regular -IR Verbs

Regular -RE Verbs

Negation

Basic Question Patterns

Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs

Irregular -OIR Verbs

Idioms with être and avoir

Depuis + present tense

Chapitre 3: la vie des jeunes

Culture

Le sport collectif et individuel

La Coupe du Monde et les Lions indomptables

L’impressionnisme

La génération des quinze à vingt-quatre ans

La génération Z

Le profil des jeunes gens

Structures et Vocabulaire

Irregular -IR Verbs

Descriptive Adjectives

Il/Elle est vs C’est

Possessive Adjectives

Demonstrative Adjectives

Adverbs

The Comparative and Superlative of Adjectives

The Comparative and Superlative of Adverbs

Numbers

Chapitre 4: les télécommunications

Culture

Le numérique: Êtes-vous parmi les accros aux écrans?

Les rencontres en ligne: une révolution amoureuse?

La circulation des idées

La politique face à la radio et à la télévision

Le succès des émissions de téléréalité

Structures et Vocabulaire

Irregular -OIR Verbs

Irregular -RE Verbs

Passé Composé with avoir and être

Basic Question Patterns with the passé composé

Placement of Adverbs in the passé composé

Uses of the passé composé

Chapitre 5: la presse et le message

Culture

La bande dessinée

La presse française et francophone

Le dix-huitième siècle et l’Encyclopédie

Le dix-neuvième siècle et l’Affaire Dreyfus

La presse quotidienne

Magazine Mode d’empoli

Le kiosque

Structures et Vocabulaire

Formation of the imperfect

Uses of the imperfect

Pluperfect

Chooses past tenses

Dates