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Announcements &
Activities
French Placement Exam
Monday, 8:00am - 9:00am
Hahn 101Questions, email Prof. Abecassis at
jabecassis@pomona.edu
French Teaching Assistantship Program
Embassy of France
4101 Reservoir Rd, NW
Washington, DC 20007
www.FrenchCulture.org
IFE is a Paris-based
educational organization offering a semester academic
internship program to students and recent graduates.
www.eucenter.scrippscollege.edu
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The French
Section at Pomona College offers a wide array of courses
taught by experienced and distinguished faculty. Enrollment
in language classes is limited, ensuring that all students
receive a great deal of individual attention and can be
fully involved in class discussions. We use the
communicative method, stressing the active use of French in
real-life situations with practical vocabulary, an inductive
approach to grammar and hands-on activities. Both our
language and literature courses use multimedia resources,
with an emphasis on film, visual arts and the internet. Our
transitional courses and upper-level seminars explore a rich
variety of material—from the great works of French
literature (Molière, Rousseau, Proust, Beckett, Sartre, et
al) to the latest in French popular culture (advertising,
film, hip hop music, etc.). In all of our classes, we stress
rigorous thought and develop students’ ability to speak and
write effectively. Students majoring in French become
familiar with a range of contemporary approaches to
language, literature and culture including political theory
and philosophy, feminism, psychoanalysis and cultural and
film studies.
Our students
are as multidisciplinary as our faculty. Many have double
majored in International Relations, Economics, English,
Biology, Chemistry, Religious Studies, Public Policy
Analysis, Mathematics, and Environmental Studies. Most
students spend at least a semester at one of our Study
Abroad French-speaking programs—in France (Paris, Toulouse,
Montpelier) or in francophone Africa (Cameroon, Senegal and
Morocco.
Pomona’s program in Romance Languages is also enhanced by a
state-of-the-art multimedia laboratory, the Foreign Language
Resource Center, with integrated computer, audio, and visual
components, including interactive video discs and
computer-assisted language progra ms. Students can further
improve their command of French and knowledge of French
culture by participating in the programs at the Oldenborg Center
for Modern Languages and International Relations, which
include daily language tables, study breaks, lectures, a
French film series and other cultural programming. They may
also apply to live in the French section of Oldenborg where
a college-aged native French speaker teaches conversation
courses and organizes cultural activities on and
off-campus.
Students
majoring in French have been accepted into the most
prestigious graduate and professional programs, including
medical school, law school as well as Ph.D. programs in
French at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Duke, UCLA and Brown. Many
go on to live and work in France and other French-speaking
countries.
The major in French is designed to assist students in
achieving a superior level of linguistic fluency in French
and cultural competency through the study of French
literature and culture. Students majoring in French are
required to complete major requirements and senior exercises
as described below. They are also expected to participate in
the Study Abroad Program for a semester and to reside in
Oldenborg Center for one year (usually their second year).
Upon graduation, French majors should be able to achieve the
following objectives:
- demonstrate advanced competence in written and spoken
French.
- demonstrate the ability to read critically, interpret
analytically, and write coherently about texts produced in the French-speaking
world:
- identify literary figures and devices and describe their
function.
- compare and contrast analyses and interpretations of different
literary and cultural texts.
- identify and evaluate the specific nature of a wide array
of literary genres.
- demonstrate familiarity with basic critical
methodological approaches in the study of these genres, such
as close reading, socio-historical contextualization, and
literary, political, psychoanalytic and cultural theory
- demonstrate knowledge of literary and cultural
traditions, such as major
movements, writers, and works of France and the
French-speaking world
- produce a senior thesis/paper with a clear thesis
statement, a logical structure, appropriate evidence and persuasive analysis.
- demonstrate an understanding of basic elements of
scholarly research and writing
- locate, evaluate and incorporate material relevant to the
research project .
- present the bibliography in proper scholarly format.
- articulate an argument in an effective and convincing
manner in formal spoken French.
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