French 202 Syllabus

Charlotte Passe-Carlus

E-mail: passecarlusc@byui.edu
Office: Smith building 457
Telephone: (208) 496 4307

Course material:
- All the documents that we will be studying will be available on the class website. You will also find
there any information you need to know about the class (syllabus, calendar...etc)
- You will also need some good dictionaries: a bilingual, but also a unilingual dictionary. If you don’t
have these at home, there are some good ones at the library or online:

Dictionnaire bilingue: http://wordreference.com/

Dictionnaire unilingue: http://www.larousse.com/en/dictionaries/french/Litt%C3%A9rature
Un autre site très intéressant pour la prononciation du français: https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/
Conjugaison des verbes: http://www.leconjugueur.com/
Grammaire: http://www.connectigramme.com/
Correcteur de grammaire : https://bonpatron.com/en/

Course goals and objectives: French 202 is designed to introduce you to French literature as well as to
improve your language proficiency in French, in speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Grade breakdown:
PowerPoint presentation (Présentation orale) 5%
Class work (Travail en classe) 15%
Compositions (Compositions) 30%
Tests (Interrogations) 50%

Grading schema:
93.75 A
87.5 A-
81.25 B+
75 B
68.75 B-
62.5 C-
56.25 C
50 C-
43.75 D+
37.5 D
31.25 D-
25 F

PowerPoint presentation:
-Each student will have to do two in the semester.
-It has to be about one of the French literature authors proposed in the calendar. You will choose this
author with the teacher.
-You have to prepare a PowerPoint about this author, then you will do your presentation to your
classmates during our Zoom class.

You will be assessed according to the following criteria:

Grammar and syntax /5
Vocabulary (rich and appropriate) /5
Pronunciation and speaking /5
Quality of the research /5
TOTAL /20

Class work:
As you will see on the calendar, you will have a French literature document to study for each day there
is class. It can be a text or a video (so you work on your reading but also listening skills). Each text or
video comes with a document with questions. You have to study the text or video, answer the questions
on the Word document and send that document with your answers to the teacher via email before class.
You will receive a grade for each of these assignments (basically 100% if you did it all, even if you
have a few mistakes) and I will post this grade under “notes” on the website.

Zoom meetings:
We will have our class on Zoom twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:45 pm to 2:15 pm.
The Zoom code is: https://byui.zoom.us/j/8993713023
Just like attendance to class is mandatory, attendance to our Zoom meetings is mandatory.

Compositions:
They will be on the given subject found in the calendar. They have to be one page long, double space,
font 12. You will write two versions of them: a first version that the teacher reads underlining what's
wrong, and a second version that you will have corrected. Note that to have a final grade, you need to
have done both versions: the first one and the corrected one, just doing the first one is not enough, I
will consider the work has not been done and you will get an F.
Make sure that you send your composition via email to the teacher on the day it is due.

Tests
Tests will consist in questions on the documents that we will have studied in class. These questions will
be similar to the ones that you will have answered in your assignments. So, if you study your
documents well and take notes when we correct the answers together, you should be fine.
I will send these tests to you through email and you will have to send them back to me by the date on
the calendar. You will not be allowed to use any document to do your tests (texts, videos, personal notes
or answer key), so I will just have to trust your honesty on that one…

Please note that your grades will be put regularly on the grade sheet on the website under “notes”, thus
enabling you to keep track of your progression.

Honor Code
The instructors fully support the CES Honor Code and expect all students to be familiar with it and
support it in every way.

Students with Disabilities

In compliance with applicable disability law, qualified students with a disability may be entitled to
“reasonable accommodation.” It is the student’s responsibility to disclose to the teacher any
special need she/he may have before the end of the first week of class.