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See our activities at World Language Week for fall 2007.
The
Schedule of Classes
is available on line.
Consult
the Foreign Language Page for more information,
including an explanation of what the course numbers mean.
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If you want to take one of our courses, please sign up before the class begins if you can. You can register on-line or by using the forms in the printed schedule, and once your information is in the system you can sign up for classes using WebSMART, the college's on-line system. The Registrar's Office should be able to help you in person or over the phone if you have any trouble with this. There are also directions on the Web. If you want to take only French courses for personal benefit, you can ask to be a non-matriculated student. To learn about this, visit the explanation on our Foreign Language page. Not matriculating means you can avoid various processes which help students who want to earn degrees and/or transfer but which are not necessarily useful for those who just want to take a few courses. If the course you want to take is full, WebSMART will not let you register, but you can be put on a wait list. You can also go to the first class meeting anyway, and the instructor will take you if there is room, as often happens. Once classes have met, it is no longer possible to register without the instructor's permission; you will need to get an authorization code for WebSMART. This is because only the instructor knows how many students were present and, therefore, how much room there really is in the class.
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Questions
about our classes? Do you want advice about which course to enroll in?
Email Professor Richard
Castillo
Phone him at 650-574-6357.
Find out how to become a CSM student.
Overview of the French Program
To see what we've been doing:
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For more information on certificates
of completion in the languages we teach, consult the Foreign
Language page.
including 5 units in the classroom transfer sequence,
to earn your Certificate of Completion.
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Overview (what we have been doing) CSM offers a full range of courses in French, including the following ones: Transfer--classroom offerings: 110 (also offered as 111 and 112), 120 (also offered as 121 and 122), 131, 132, 140. These are first- and second-year college French courses. For more about course numbers, visit the CSM Foreign Language page. Some courses are offered only in the fall or spring. For information about planned offerings in a later semester, call the Language Arts Division Office at (650) 574-6314. |
Our classroom courses
feature in-class speaking and listening during class, and we're increasing
the supplementary materials for speaking and listening outside of class,
including audio, video, and computerized materials in the Foreign
Language Center, Building 18, Room 112.
Learn
how to become a student without matriculating. Professors Wenger, Petit, and Castillo Here
are students from French 110 Below,
If you like working with other French speakers
(and potential French speakers) out of class, you'll like our French
Club, which gives people a chance
to socialize in French or, for those who don't yet speak much French,
to learn about
French culture and participate in various activities.
Schedule of Classes.
at a cheese tasting/demonstration.
in fall 2005, on a virtual trip to Paris thanks to the wonder of digital
imagery.
Fall 2007 French 110 students with Professor Susan Petit at their World Language Days performance of Prévert's "Page d'écriture."
At the end, the pen-holder turns back into a bird. Illustrations by Clarissa Fong. shown at right, below.
Salutations! My students know me as "Madame
Carter." I am Marilyn Carter, and I teach all levels of French, and
have taught at many local campuses: Stanford, College of Notre Dame,
Mission College, Santa Clara University and others. Travel fascinates
me. I have studied or taught in Europe and in Africa, and even worked
briefly for the Embassy of a Francophone country in Washington, D.C.
Among my personal collections, I have a fair quantity of gourmet cookware,
since I also served as Purchasing Manager for an importer, traveling
with the company president and the general manager to visit suppliers
in France. And then there are the books, rooms full of them! One favorite
leisure time activity: reading cheap detective novels... in French,
of course! You can email me at carterm@smccd.edu
or phone me at 650-574-6695 (live) or 650-574-6677 x 9024 (voice
mail). Edwige Gamache Bonjour! I was born and raised in France. After moving
to the States in 1985, I completed my education at U.C. Berkeley,
where I obtained a Ph.D in Francophone Studies. I have since taught in various colleges in the Bay
Area and at Northern I have many passions in my life, among them one for
cinema, another for discovering new cultures and ways of life. In
class, I usually communicate these two passions by frequently combining
excerpts of my favorite films, sharing travel experiences, or exploring
new perspectives from a francophone region. I have been teaching for
many years and enjoy it greatly. I look forward to working with CSM
students again in the near future. George Khoury I was born and raised in Palestine. After high school,
I attended a French college where I studied Philosophy and European
languages: in addition to French, Latin was mandatory, I also studied
Italian, and Spanish. I came to the United States in 1969 where I
enrolled in Seton Hall University in ther East Coast and graduated
with a B. A. in French and Spanish. Later, I pursued an M. A. degree
at Montclair State University and graduated in 1975. Susan Petit Bonjour. Hello. I teach both English and French,
so I use both languages on my PhoneMail recording at (650) 574-6357.
Call and leave me a message, email me at petit@smccd.edu,
or visit my Web
page. Nearly all my extracurricular
activities have to do with French or English. I read
French books and write articles and books about French
literature. I also receive French-related publications
which I lend to my students. I see French films and
recommend the good ones to my classes.I frequently go to
France, and sometimes I show slides from those trips. As
to the food, I'm more interested in eating it than fixing
it, but I do have a few recipes I've been known to
share. I usually teach courses are for beginners and near-beginners,
and I know how to help people get past those early stages in language
learning and to the point where they are really communicating. We
work a lot on accuracy, but we don't forget that communication is
the main point. In class I like to use video, music, and skits to
add to our regular study of the language. Because I enjoy using French,
my classes do, too.
Marilyn Carter
Michigan University. I am presently the Head of the Language Department
at Oakland School for the Arts, where I teach Italian, Spanish, French
and Art Criticism.
In 1983 I entered a joint doctoral program at UC Berkeley and the
Graduate Theological Union and obtained my doctoral degree in 1990.
While my B. A. & M.A. focused on language & literature, my
doctoral work studied the nature of religious language.
I have taught French & Spanish extensively in the schools and
college of New Jersey and California. I also taught Arabic at City
College, the Arab Cultural Center, UC Bereley, and at CSM. For many
years I was a teacher of German at the high school level, while teaching
Italian spotadically.
I love music, swimming, and reading. I am very much concerned about
the human condition and politics figure very large in my thinking.
I believe there is much more to teaching language than just conjugating
verbs and nouns declension: learning a foreign language has a therapeutic
value as it lifts from our minds the fog of bias and prejudice and
opens before us ever wider vistas of human understanding and solidarity.
Bonne chance in your study of French and hope to see you soon in one
of the French classes!
Great French and Francophone
Accomplishments Almost whatever your career goals
or your interests are, French speakers have contributed to
that field, and knowing the language and the culture will
help you. Here is a partial list: Business and travel: French is
spoken by some 200 million people around the world, on all
continents--Europe (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco),
North Africa and the Near East (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
Egypt, Syria, Lebanon), Central Africa (Republic of Congo,
Congo, Niger, Mali, Chad, République Centrafricaine,
Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon), Indian Ocean (Mauritania,
Réunion), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos),
Pacific Ocean (Tahiti, New Caledonia), South America and the
Caribbean (French Guyana, Haïti, Guadeloupe,
Martinique), North America (Québec, Maine, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Louisiana). The United States imports French
engines, auto parts, spacecraft equipment,
telecommunications materials, electronics, and industrial
parts. French companies employ 400,000 workers in the
US. Science and technology: Pasteur,
Pascal, the Montgolfier brothers, Buffon, Lavoisier,
Lamarck, Cuvier, Ampère, de Lesseps, Pierre and Marie
Curie, Cousteau; medical research, especially in HIV;
rocketry; computers; and parachutes, Velcro, Bic pens and
shavers, JDecaux toilets and bus shelters Mathematics: Pascal, Descartes, Fermat (creator
of the famous "last theorem"), Évariste Galois, Pierre-Simon
Laplace, Antoine Cournot, Léon Walras, Joseph Bertrand, Henri
Lebesgue, Augustin Cauchy, Maurice Fréchet, Siméon Poisson,
Gérard Debreu, Jean-Pierre Serre Philosophical and social thinkers:
Rousseau, Voltaire, Descartes, Montesquieu, Pascal, Diderot,
Comte, Lévi-Strauss, Bergson, Weil, Camus, Lacan,
Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Baudrillard Explorers: Champlain, Marquette,
de La Salle, Joliet, Cartier, Foucauld, Bougainville, La
Pérouse Sports: tennis, luge, dressage; Lacoste, Killy,
Noah, Bonaly, Perec, Michel Platini, Eric Cantona Architecture: cathedrals (Notre
Dame, Chartres, Beauvais), châteaux (Chenonceaux,
Chambord, Azay-le-Rideau, Blois, Fontainebleau, Versailles),
the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, the Arche de la
Défense, the Louvre, the Opéra Garnier and the
Opéra Bastille, the Bibliothèque
Nationale Painting, sculpture, and drawing:
Lascaux caves, Medieval sculpture, Poussin, Watteau,
Fragonard, Chardin, David, Delacroix, Ingres, Manet, Monet,
Rodin, C. Claudel, Renoir, Cézanne, Lautrec, Degas,
Pisarro, Picasso, Cocteau, Chagall, Modigliani, Matisse,
Morisot, Dufy, Magritte Music: Lully, Rameau, Bizet, Berlioz, Couperin,
Offenbach, Gounod, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud,
Poulenc, Boulez, Messaien, Édouard Lalo, Paul Dukas, Edgard Varèse,
Nadia Boulanger Popular singers: Chevalier, Piaf,
Montand, Aznavour, Birken, Brassens, Kaas, Dion, M. C.
Solaar Dance: galop, pavane, ronde,
cotillon, gaillarde, menuet, gavotte, quadrille,
bourrée, ballet Fiction and poetry: Rabelais,
Perrault, Montaigne, La Fontaine, Ronsard, Balzac, Hugo,
Stendhal, Dumas, Verne, Flaubert, Maupassant, Sand, Zola,
Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Merger,
Proust, Gide, Colette, Beauvoir, Camus, Mauriac, Sagan,
Robbe-Grillet, Maillet, Hébert, Senghor, Yourcenar,
Duras, Tournier, Ernaux, Wittig, Modiano, Le Clézio,
Bâ Popular fiction and comics:
Simenon, San-Antonio, Hergé (Tintin), Sempé
and Goscinny (Astérix) Theater: Molière,
Corneille, Racine, Beaumarchais, Marivaux, Feydeau, Sartre,
Ionesco, Beckett, Réza; The Phantom of the
Opera, Les Misérables Films: Napoléon, La Grande
Illusion, Les Enfants du paradis, Hiroshima mon amour, Jules
et Jim, Un Homme et une femme, Day for Night, Rue
Case-Nègres, La Chèvre, Jean de Florette,
Manon des Sources, Au revoir les enfants, Shoah, Cyrano de
Bergerac, Bleu, Blanc, Rouge, Actors: Fernandel, Montand,
Signoret, Gabin, Matthieu, Bardot, Belmondo, Deneuve,
Depardieu Cuisine: vichysoisse,
consommé, soupe à l'oignon, coq au vin,
bœuf Wellington or bourguignon, pommes vapeur or
rissolées, carottes vichy, coquilles St-Jacques, sole
meunière, bouillabaisse, soufflés, omelettes,
crêpes, mayonnaise, sauce béarnaise or
hollandaise, vinaigrette, Dijon mustard Pastries: baguettes, brioches,
croissants, babas, éclairs, pains au chocolat,
tartes Wines and liqueurs: champagne,
burgundy, beaujolais, bordeaux, cognac, armagnac, calvados,
Dubonnet, Pernod, Chambord, Chartreuse, Grand Marnier,
Benedictine, triple sec Fine foods: cheeses (brie,
camembert, roquefort, chèvre), truffles, foie gras,
marrons glacés High fashion: Dior, Yves
St.-Laurent, Chanel, Balmain, Hermès, Vuitton,
Cardin, Givenchy Perfumes and cosmetics: Coty,
Lanvin, Arpège, Chanel, YSL, Guerlain, Caron, Paloma
Picasso Our thanks for contributing to this list: Professor Jim Larson (U of
I at Chicago); Mike Janson (the spring 2009 CSM French 112 class). Your
name here: Add to our list and get credited on this page.
The list below, when first created, had to
fit on one sheet of paper! So we left out quite a few people
and things. You can add to this list, if you want. Suggest additional
people and inventions, creations, and discoveries, or suggest new categories.
E-mail your nominations to Susan
Petit. If your suggestions go on the list,
we will give you credit for contributing to the list, unless you say
not to.
