FREN 3500 is also offered in Spring 2025
FREN 3500 is also offered in Spring 2024
Fall 2017 | FREN 3500 Section 001: Linguistic Analysis of French (34693)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed,
Fri 01:25PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 10
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to scientific study of French language. Concepts/terminology to describe nature/functioning of sounds, words, sentences/meaning, and variation. Taught in French. prereq: 3015
- Class Notes:
- Please check out more information on this course! http://classinfo.umn.edu/?bjkerr+FREN3500+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- Though you have studied the French language, probably for many years, your study has no doubt been motivated primarily by practical objectives, i.e. the desire to write, read, speak and comprehend the language. The discipline known as linguistics approaches language from a different perspective, namely, a scientific perspective. The purpose of linguistics is to better understand how particular languages work, and, ultimately, how these particular communicative systems work together with the human brain to allow us to communicate. The purpose of this course is to initiate you into this different approach to language: its basic principles (and how they differ from those of a practical approach), its specialized terminology (in French), its modes of investigating and analyzing language, its ways of describing the diverse aspects of languages and language use. Since the primary language we will be using to illustrate this approach will be French, you will also become acquainted with some of the knowledge about the French language that linguists have come to agree upon. This knowledge includes basic descriptions of the various components of the language: the sounds as described by phonetics and phonology, the forms of words as described by morphology and lexicology, the forms of sentences as described by syntax, and the formation of meaning as described by semantics. Course materials: Primary course text: P. Leon & P. Bhatt, Structure du francais moderne: Introduction a l'analyse linguistique, 3rd ed., Canadian Scholars Press Incorporated, 2005. NOTE: YOU MUST PURCHASE THE TEXT AT THE UM BOOKSTORE, AS WE WILL BE USING A SPECIAL EDITION NOT AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE. A selection of the Questions following each unit will be assigned and discussed in class. A Moodle course site will be used for supplying links to additional online materials, and for assigning activities requiring application of concepts and methods of analysis to French data, and occasional short essays. Students will also create entries for their personal dictionaries via the Moodle site. Additional short readings will be taken from various sources. THIS COURSE WILL SERVE AS A PREREQ (as an alternative to Ling 3001) FOR OTHER LINGUISTICS COURSES IN THE DEPARTMENT (Fren 3501, 3521, 3531, 3541).
- Grading:
- 30% Written Homework
20% Class Participation
10% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: 3 Exams = total of 40% Attendance + class participation = 20% 'Other' = Personal dictionary
- Exam Format:
- various question types, including short-answer questions and brief essays
- Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
40% Discussion
10% Laboratory
20% Small Group Activities
- Workload:
- 15-25 Pages Reading Per Week
5-7 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Exam(s)
2-3 Paper(s)
34 Homework Assignment(s)
5 Quiz(zes)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34693/1179
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/bjkerr_FREN3500_Fall2019.docx (Fall 2019)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 28 August 2012
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2017 French Classes