University of Toronto at Scarborough 2001/2002 Calendar
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(B.A.)
The following Programs are offered at University of Toronto at Scarborough: a Minor Program in French; a Minor Program for francophone students; a Major in French with four streams (French Studies, International French Studies, French and Business, French and the Arts); a Joint Specialist Program in Management and Language (see: Management); and the Specialist Program: Education of Teachers in French. (The Specialist Program in French, the Major Program in French Language and Literature and the Major Program in French Language are no longer offered. Students already enrolled in one of these Programs will be able to complete it; please consult the Supervisor of Studies for further information).
French studies normally begin with FREA10, Language Practice I, which serves to consolidate previous knowledge, and is the prerequisite for more advanced courses in all areas. FREA10 is designed primarily for students with OAC French or equivalent competence. Those who have significant "immersion" or "enriched" high school experience, or who have native or near-native abilities in French, should consult the faculty member responsible for FREB10 or FREC10 about the appropriate entry course(s). Students without OAC French or equivalent are urged to obtain credit for FSL121Y (the equivalent of FREA16Y). Note that the Language Practice courses A10, B10, and C10 must be taken in sequence. Normally, an A-level FRE course should not be taken at the same time as, or after, a B-level FRE course. Please do not hesitate to consult Program Supervisors and other faculty members for further advice about course selection and Programs.
The College's Study Elsewhere Program offers ideal opportunities for students of French to earn academic credit while studying in another province or country. For further information about this Program and about Letters of Permission, please refer to "Study at Other Universities" in this calendar, and speak to our Supervisor of Study Elsewhere.
Students with OAC French who took Summer Bursary Program courses prior to attending U of T, must see the Supervisor of Study Elsewhere during the first week of classes. After assessing the course, the Supervisor of Study Elsewhere will advise the student as to the appropriate level in which to register. Failure to seek advice at that time may result in a loss of credit to which the student is entitled.
Students must consult the Supervisor of Studies about possible exclusions if they are considering registering in French courses in the Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George or Erindale campuses). Failure to do so may leave the student short a course for degree credit and thus delay graduation and increase tuition fees.
Note that two of our courses (FREB83 & FREC84)
are conducted in English; readings and assignments for these courses
are done in French by those who wish credit toward a French Program,
and in English by those who wish general credit toward a degree.
Co-ordinator: F. Mugnier
This four-year Program is designed and offered jointly by the Division of Humanities, University of Toronto at Scarborough, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto (OISE) in order to meet the need for teachers of French at all levels in the school system: primary/junior, junior/intermediate and intermediate/senior. It provides a comprehensive education for those intending to continue their studies at the Faculty of Education (OISE / U. of T.) as well as for anyone broadly interested in the teaching of French as a second language. Emphasizing both content and methodology, it includes academic courses in French and other subjects as well as practicum placements.
Students are admitted to the Program on the basis of their overall performance in first year AND their performance in FRE courses. Students who successfully complete this Program of studies and who meet the admission requirements of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto (OISE) will be admitted to that institute. Up to 20 students will be selected for this Program each year. Several bursaries are available for study in France or Quebec.
Students in this Specialist Program must complete
a total of 20 courses chosen from the two main categories below:
A. Ten full-course equivalents in French as follows:
1 Three full-course equivalents consisting of: FREA10Y, FREB10Y and FREC10Y (except where substitution of other French courses is permitted for students with special proficiency in the French language).
2 Two full-course equivalents selected from the following: FREB44H, FREB45H, FREC42H, FREC43H, FREC46H, FREC47H
3 One full-course equivalent selected from the following: FREB22H, FREB27H, FREB28H
4 Three full-course equivalents in literature which must include: one full-course equivalent in French Canadian literature; one full-course equivalent in French literature (FREB50Y can fulfill this requirement); one half-course in French literature from other parts of the French-speaking world excluding France and Canada. NOTE: French courses taught in English cannot count towards this requirement.
5 FREB11H and FREC11H. (FREB11H ideally should be taken in second year to avoid timetable conflicts which might arise as a result of trying to schedule the practicum component of the course.)
(All of these courses are described in detail below.)
B. Ten further full-course equivalents:
Students are advised to choose courses to suit the teaching Program and the teaching subjects in which they are interested. Information and advice will be available through the Program Coordinator at Scarborough and through counselling at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto (OISE). The following are recommended as general preparation for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto (OISE), B.Ed. Program:
- a half-course in educational psychology
- a half-course in language acquisition - LINB25H and LINB24H are recommended
- a half-course to develop computer skills.
All Program registrants are required, in years 3
and 4, to spend a minimum of one half-day per week engaged in
a supervised classroom teaching experience. This experience will
allow registrants to put into practice their understanding of
the French language teaching methods presented in FREB11 and FREC11.
University of Toronto at Scarborough, in association with the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto
(OISE), will arrange these practicum placements in local elementary
and secondary schools.
Supervisor: S. Mittler
The major Program in French provides a simple structure that students can readily customize to meet their needs. The Supervisor of Studies welcomes opportunities to help students tailor this flexible Program to match their strengths and goals.
Students must complete seven full-course equivalents in French, including:
1 FREA10Y and FREB10Y (except where the Supervisor of Studies permits substitution of other FRE courses for students with special proficiency in the French language).
2 One further full-course equivalent in language:
Language courses are: FREB08H, B17H, B18Y, B44H, B45H, C05H, C10Y, C18H, C42H, C43H, C46H, C47H.
3 One full-course equivalent in literature and/or culture.
Literature courses are: FREB50Y, B20H, B35H, B36H, B37H, (B52H), B54H, (B57H), B60H, C38H, C62H.
Culture courses are: FREB22H, (B23H), B27H, B28H, B83H, B84H, (B85H), B86H.
4 Three additional full-course equivalents in French.
Students may create a "classic" major in French Studies with a language and literature focus by including FREB50Y and one and one half other full-course equivalents in literature in their Program.
Those wanting a major with a business focus should include one full-course equivalent from (FREC01H) - FREC05H or FREC10Y as well as FREB18Y and FREC18H in their Program.
Students wanting a major with international breadth should include one full-course equivalent from (FREC01H) - FREC05H or FREC10Y as well as one full-course equivalent in French and/or French Canadian and/or francophone literature (FREA50Y can serve this purpose) and one-half F.C.E. in each of French, French-Canadian and other francophone cultures.
Those wanting a major with arts and cultures breadth should include two full-course equivalents in literature and culture, in addition to the course(s) used to fulfill requirement (3) of the major. Consult the Supervisor of Studies.
NOTE: Only courses for which the student does assignments in French can be counted towards a French Program; at the A-level, only FREA10Y and FREB50Y may be counted.
The Supervisor of Studies will provide students
who complete a major in any of these streams (French Studies,
French and Business, International French Studies, French and
the Arts) with a letter explaining their Program. Such a letter
would be useful when applying for a job or for admission to a
post-BA Program. (Students interested in graduate studies in French
however, should be aware that they will probably need further
course work in French).
Supervisor: S. Mittler
Students should complete four full-course equivalents
including: FREA10Y, FREB10Y and two further full-course equivalents
in French. At least one F.C.E. must be at the C-level.
Supervisor: S. Mittler
Students in this Program must complete at least four
full-course equivalents at the B- and C-levels, excluding FREB10Y
and FREB17H. At least one F.C.E. must be at the C-level.
Reinforcement and development of the language skills--understanding, reading, writing, and speaking--necessary for higher-level courses.
The course consists of a grammar review with written and oral exercises, reading and discussion of a variety of texts representing different francophone cultures and whatever exercises class and instructor may choose to devise. The class meets three times a week and, in addition, will do a fourth hour of speaking and listening with recorded materials. This course is a prerequisite for all B-level courses in the French discipline at University of Toronto at Scarborough. (FREA10 is also a prerequisite for FREB53, FREB83, FREC84 and FREB86 for students enrolled in a French Program.)
Exclusion: Native or near-native proficiency in French; FSL161Y, FSL182H, FSL181Y
Prerequisite: OAC French or Grade 13 French or equivalent.
P. Roberts and Staff
Offered: 2001/2002
Development and reinforcement of spoken language skills.
Through discussion groups, interviews, role-playing and other controlled situational oral work, students will be familiarized with elements of vocabulary, syntax and grammar fundamental to relative facility in oral communication. Topics of conversation will focus on contemporary and daily life. Part of the course is devoted to the improvement of pronunciation and listening comprehension. Participants will be encouraged to use methods of self-help wherever possible.
Exclusion: Native or near-native proficiency; FSL161Y, FSL163H or equivalent
Prerequisite: OAC French or Grade 13 or equivalent
Offered: 2001/2002
Texts from fields such as literature, business, politics,
law, science and technology, art, and advertising will be translated,
analyzed, and discussed in terms of type of language and style
of expression. Class time is devoted to increasing the student's
proficiency, based on the many types of differences between French
and English.
Exclusion: FTR470, FTR480, FTR481
Prerequisite: FREA10Y or equivalent
P. Roberts
Offered: 2001/2001
A continuation of FREA10.
This course is concerned with the development of fluency, accuracy of expression, and style, through the study of grammar, composition, aural/oral practice, readings. Course work can be supplemented by audio and videotapes.
Exclusion: (FREB16), native proficiency in French; FSL261Y, FSL282
Prerequisite: FREA10Y or equivalent
F. Mugnier and Staff
Offered: 2001/2002
This course is offered by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in conjunction with the Division of Humanities, University of Toronto at Scarborough, and is intended for students considering a career in French language teaching. It involves a series of seminars conducted in French as well as preparation for practical work which will take place in local elementary and secondary schools throughout the duration of the course. This course should ideally be taken immediately after admission to the Education of Teachers in French Program.
Prerequisite: FREA10Y or equivalent
T.B.A.
Offered: 2001/2002
Intensive practice in the spoken language through
controlled situational oral work and discussion groups. Attention
will be given to the comprehension of such major regional variants
as those found in the province of Quebec. As many opportunities
as possible will be provided to practice the language and develop
a mastery of relevant vocabulary so that students may acquire
a reasonable degree of confidence when speaking about everyday
life and contemporary topics.
Enrolment Limit: 30
Exclusion: FSL283
Prerequisite: FREA10Y or equivalent
S. Mittler
Credit for FREB17 is also available in the summer
under Study Elsewhere.
Offered: 2001/2002
The French language in a commercial or economic context.
This course is of interest to students in French,
Business, Accounting, Computer Science, Economics and Management,
and to all who wish to improve their skills in preparation for
entry into a specialized area of the job market. Class meetings
will be devoted, among other things, to correspondence writing
and to exercises that include the vocabulary and structures involved
in the language of business as practiced primarily in the Canadian
francophone business community.
Exclusion: FSL366
Prerequisite: FREA10Y, or permission of the instructor
J. Ndayiragije
Offered: 2001/2002
An examination of political, social and cultural developments in France in the last hundred years.
Topics will include: the impact of the two World Wars; the decolonization process; France and its relations with North America, the European Community and the Third World; the main artistic and intellectual currents; the media; the educational system, etc. This course is designed to interest both specialists and non-specialists.
Exclusion: (FREB21)
Prerequisites: FREA10 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
An examination of historical, political and cultural realities in the French-speaking West Indies, Europe, Africa and South-East Asia.
Topics to be discussed will include slavery, colonization, decolonization and multilingualism. Artistic and intellectual developments will be studied, based on written and audio-visual material. The course is designed to interest both specialists and non-specialists.
Exclusions: FRE252, 253
Prerequisite: FREA10 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
A study of a variety of literary texts from the French-speaking world, excluding France and Canada.
Attention will be given to the cultural and historical
background as well as to the close study of works from areas including
the West Indies, North and West Africa.
Exclusion: FRE432
Prerequisite: FREA10 or equivalent
Corequisite: FREA50 or (FREB50)
F. Mugnier
An examination of the sound system of modern French using speech samples of diverse regional and socio-economic groups throughout the francophone world.
The course will acquaint students with acoustic
phonetics and to the basic concepts and features of the French
phonetic system. Phonological interpretation of phonetic data
will be discussed. Prosodic features such as stress and intonation
will be examined in
their various functions. Some classes will be conducted
in the language laboratory located in Bladen Library. This course
is a complement to FREB45H.
Exclusions: FREB25Y, FRE272Y, FRE376H
Prerequisite: FREA10Y
K. McCrindle
Offered: 2001/2002
An examination of the morphology and syntactic structure of modern French.
In comparison with English, we will study how French
words are formed as well as the constituents parts of sentences
both simple and complex. Questions of grammatical relationship
such as agreement, subordination, co-ordination and expansion
will also be studied. This course is a complement to FREB44H.
Exclusion: FREB25Y, FRE272
Prerequisite: FREA10Y
J. Ndayiragije
Offered: 2001/2002
A study of representative works from major periods and areas of the literature of the francophone world.
FREB50Y will introduce students to the thoughtful reading of literary texts in French. Students will be encouraged to acquire the basic vocabulary and techniques necessary to analyze literature in the three genres and to develop their essay-writing skills in French. This course is recommended both for students intending to major or specialize in French as a useful background for more advanced studies and for those students interested in enhancing or retaining their reading, writing, and speaking skills in French.
The class will meet for three hours each week for
lectures and discussions conducted in French.
Exclusion: (FREA50)
Prerequisite: FREA10Y or equivalent
F. Mugnier
Offered: 2001/2002
A study of symbolism and the imagined/imaginative in France and the francophone world.
The course will explore the lively imaginations
and belief systems to be found in a broad selection of francophone
communities. Myths and folk tales of North and West African, European, and other origins will be examined in relation to cultural interpretations of, for instance, life, death, family, femaleness and maleness, wealth, happiness, innovation, the individual in society, and attraction to and fear of the miraculous or exotic.
Lectures and discussions will be in English and film materials provided with subtitles. Students wishing credit in French Programs will be required to do the readings, paper(s), test(s) and a final examination in French.
Exclusions: None
Prerequisite: FREA10Y for students enrolled in French Programs or three full A-level courses or permission of the instructor.
Offered: 2001/2002
The purpose of the course is to improve the students' written, listening and oral skills.
The course will focus on acquiring the appropriate means of expression through practice in text summaries, compositions, error analysis, review of specific grammar points and discussion of recorded material, articles and films.
Exclusions: FSL316Y, FSL382H, FSL383H, FREC01H, FREC02H, FREC04H
Prerequisite: FREB10Y or equivalent
Offered: 2001/2002
A continuation of FREB18, devoted to the study of the French language in a commercial, professional, and technical context.
Through in-class practice in translation from French to English and English to French, students will have the opportunity to widen their knowledge of the vocabulary and structures particular to the language of business as well as to such fields as legal services, social work, health care, industrial relations, insurance, and software.
Class work is directed toward increasing the student's
proficiency. Evaluation will be based on class participation and
a series of in-class tests.
Exclusion: FTR480, FTR481
Prerequisite: FREB10 or FREB18 or equivalent
S. Mittler
Offered: 2001/2002
Attention will be paid to distinctive grammatical features that pose problems when teaching or learning French as a second language. Topics such as the following will be studied: the basic grammatical patterns of French, how and why those basic sentence patterns are transformed, and the grammatical constraints on such transformations.
Exclusion: FRE378
Prerequisite: FREB10Y
Offered: 2001/2002
To the uninitiated, French creoles seem to be simplified and corrupt versions of French. However, creole language structures are so distinct that most varieties are mutually unintelligible with standard French. In some ways their grammatical structures more closely resemble those of some West African languages or those of Portuguese, Spanish or English creoles. The course will introduce students to the complex grammars of French-based creoles and will, in particular, explore differences between the inflectional and derivational morphology of these languages and French. The approach will be largely synchronic, but will include some socio-historical discussion. Different regional varieties will be examined.
Prerequisite: FREB10Y
Offered: 2001/2002
The specific content of this course will vary from year to year with the interests of both instructor and students. This year, using short works by authors such as Maupassant, MerimÈe and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam as well as examples from other media, we will look at the concept of the fantastic as well as the neighbouring concepts of the unreal and the marvelous. We will see how and why this literature is a reflection of the culture that produced it, and how personalities such as Mesmer and Baudelaire inaugurated a whole new way of considering the line dividing what is real from what is not.
Prerequisite: FREB50Y or equivalent or permission of the instructor
Offered: 2001/2002
These courses offer the student an opportunity to carry out independent study of an advanced and intensive kind, under the direction of a faculty member. Student and instructor work out in consultation the course's objectives, content, bibliography, and methods of approach. The material studied should bear a clear relation to the student's previous work, and should differ significantly in content and/or concentration from topics offered in regular courses. In applying to a faculty supervisor, students should be prepared to present a brief written statement of the topic they wish to explore. Final approval of the project rests with the French Discipline.
Students are advised that they must obtain consent from the supervising instructor before registering for these courses. Interested students should contact the Discipline Representative or Supervisor of Studies for guidance.
Prerequisite: One B-level course in the group FREB10-(FREB81), except FREB17 & FREB18.
Offered every year
FREB20H3 Teaching Children's Literature in French
Prerequisite: FREA10Y or equivalent
FREB22H3 The Society and Culture of French Canada
Prerequisite: FREA10Y or equivalent
FREB36H3 The Literature of French Canada I: To 1960
Exclusions: FREB38H, FREB39H, FRE210, FRE310
Prerequisite: FREA10Y
Corequisite: FREA50Y or FREB50H or permission of
the instructor
FREB37H3 The Literature of French Canada II: Since 1960
Exclusions: FREB38, FREC39, FRE312
Prerequisite: FREA10Y
Corequisite: FREA50Y or FREB50H or permission of
the instructor
FREB53H3 The
Comic Tradition in France
Exclusion: FREB51H, FRE320Y; FRE356
Prerequisite: FREA10Y for students enrolled in a
French Program or three full A-level courses for others or permission
of the instructor
FREB54H3 Before the Revolution
Exclusion: (FREB51H), (FREC52H), FRE320Y, FRE322Y
Prerequisite: FREA10Y or equivalent
FREB83H3 Cultural Identities and Stereotypes in the French-Speaking World
Prerequisite: FREA10Y for students enrolled in French
Programs or three full A-level courses or permission of the instructor
FREB86H3 French and Francophone Fiction and Film
Prerequisite: FREA10Y (FREB06) for students enrolled
in French Programs or three full A-level courses or permission
of the instructor
FREC05H3 Exercise in Interpreting
Prerequisite: FREB17H or permission of the instructor
FREC11H3 Teaching French as a Second Language
Exclusion: FRE488
Pre/Co-requisite: One full-course from the sequence
FREC01-FREC05 or FREC10
FREC38H3 The Literature of French Canada III: Special Topics
Prerequisite: One B-level course in the group FREB10-(FREB81),
except FREB17 & FREB18 or permission of the instructor
Pre- or Corequisite: FREA50Y or (FREB50) or permission
of the instructor
FREC42H3 General History of the French Language
Exclusion: FREB42H, FRE273
Prerequisite: One B-level course in the group FREB10-FREB81,
except (FREB17) & FREB18 or permission of the instructor
FREC43H3 The French Language in Canada
Exclusion: (FREB43Y), FRE472
Prerequisite: One B-level course in the group FREB10-(FREB16)-(FREB81),
excluding FREB17 & FREB18 or permission of the instructor
FREC62H3 Contemporary Women Writers in France
Exclusion: FRE401H, FREB81H
Prerequisites: One B-level course in the group FREB10Y-(FREB81),
except FREB17 & FREB18, or permission of the instructor
Pre- or Co-requisite: FREA50Y or (FREB50H); or permission
of the instructor
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