UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN
TRINITY COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH
Senior Freshman Handbook
2013 - 2014
Two-Subject Moderatorship
This Handbook should be read in conjunction with relevant entries in the University Calendar. In case of any conflict between the Handbook and the Calendar, the provisions of the Calendar shall apply. Copies of the University Calendar can be purchased or consulted either in the Library or on the web at:
http://www.tcd.ie/Secretary/College_Calendar/
Lecturing staff
Individual telephones can be accessed from outside College by pre-fixing (01) 896; email addresses are followed by <@tcd.ie>.
Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey, room 4105, tel. 2686, email <salynsta>
Dr Edward Arnold, room 4106, tel. 1836, email <ejarnold>
Ms Annick Ferré, room 4104, tel. 1977, email <ferrea>
Dr James Hanrahan (on Research Leave in Hilary Term 2014), room 4107, tel. 1841, email <hanrahaj>
Dr Rachel Hoare (Head of Department), room 4103, tel. 1842, email <rmhoare>
Dr Claire Laudet, room 4108, tel. 2313, email <claudet>
Dr Alexandra Lukes, room 4104, tel.1977, email <lukesa>
Dr Hannes Opelz, room 4111, tel.1077, email <opelzh>
Dr Paule Salerno-O'Shea, room 4113, tel. 1472, email <psalerno>
Professor David Scott, room 3135, tel. 1374, email <dscott>
Lectrices and lecteurs, room 4078, ext. 1248
Fazia Khaled
Thibaut Loiez
Jeanne Kretzschmar
Executive Officers
Ms Mary Kelly and Ms Sinéad Doran, room 4109, tel. 1553, email <french>
Ms Tracy Corbett, room 4089, tel. 1333
Term Dates
Michaelmas Term: Monday 23 September 2013 - Friday 13 December 2013
Hilary Term: Monday 13 January 2014 - Friday 4 April 2014
Coordination
SF year coordinator: Dr James Hanrahan
Language: Dr James Hanrahan
Literature: Prof. David Scott
Ideas: Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey
Linguistics: Dr Rachel Hoare
Schol: Dr James Hanrahan
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Courses
Language Programme
FR2008 Oral and Written Language (10 ECTS)
This is divided into three components: Grammar Lecture, Composition and Written Expression Class, Oral Language Class
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
· Communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing, in English and French in academic, professional and social settings
· Organise and present ideas in English and French, in writing and orally, within the framework of a structured and reasoned critical argument
· Translate a range of journalistic texts to and from French, with accuracy, consistency and appropriateness of register and expression
· Demonstrate a good comprehension of French by writing in French a résumé of a journalistic text
· Demonstrate a high level of proficiency in the French language in both written and spoken contexts
· Analyse critically and independently, in English and French, a variety of texts written in French in a variety of registers
Grammar Lecture
Students attend a grammar lecture every week which builds on the foundation provided in the JF year; the course aims both to develop a number of familiar grammatical points and to introduce more sophisticated grammatical structures. The core textbook for this course is C. Abbadie et al., L’Expression française écrite et orale (Grenoble: PUG 2003) available in International Books. Class exercises will be taken from this book and students will prepare a series of exercises based on the grammar topic of the lecture. Students should also have Hawkins and Towell French Grammar and Usage as a reference grammar, in addition to the Bescherelle: La Conjugaison pour tous (Paris: Hatier,1997) and Humbertsone’s Mot à mot (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996).
Students are expected to acquire and familiarise themselves with a good monolingual dictionary. Le Petit Robert is recommended; if that is ruled out on grounds of expense, Le Micro Robert is an acceptable substitute for most purposes.
Composition and Written Expression Class
Students also attend a weekly language class with a member of the lecturing staff or a graduate teaching assistant. The dossier for this class should be downloaded from the Departmental website. This course aims to develop reading and writing skills, and to introduce students to the exercises of translation, résumé and essay writing among others.
NB. Work submitted for this class counts for 17% of the overall language mark for the year. This is calculated on the basis of marks awarded for eight mandatory assignments (‘Contrôle continu’). These eight marks in total will constitute the final continuous assessment mark.
Late submission: Unless there is a medical reason for late submission (justified by a medical cert), class tutors may reasonably refuse to correct work handed up after the time they have set aside for doing so. If a student cannot produce a medical cert, he or she must obtain permission to submit from the Head of Department.
Oral Language Class
Students attend a weekly class with the French lecteurs / lectrices. Through discussion concerning aspects of contemporary France, this class aims to develop aural comprehension and oral expression. Since this is your only contact hour with native speakers, and your only chance to speak French in a small-group environment, it is vital that you attend on a weekly basis and participate regularly. Non-attendance will be taken very seriously by the Department.
Personal study
In addition, students are strongly advised to practice grammar exercises relating to topics which they find difficult. Extra exercises can be found in L’Expression française écrite et orale.
Assessment
Your mark for FR2008 will be calculated on the basis of marks awarded for three components:
2 x three-hour papers in Trinity Term:
Language 1: grammar and composition (33%)
Language 2: translation into English + résumé (33%)
Oral examination: (17%)
8 x continuous assessment assignments: (17%)
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Coursework Options (20 ECTS)
TSM students also follow two of the following three additional Options:
Ideas into Politics (FR2018)
Literature (FR2016)
The French Language – Variation and Innovation (FR2021)
All of these courses run throughout the year, with weekly lectures and weekly seminars. For each course that the student takes, an essay of 2,000-2,500 words must be submitted. Students therefore write two essays during the year. Rather than submitting them both together, the deadlines are spread out (see below). Students can decide which Option essay they will submit first. Students cannot submit both essays at the same time. Essay titles are appended.
Deadlines: MT essays: by noon on Monday 13 January 2012
HT essays: by noon on Friday 21 March 2013
· One piece of assessed work must be submitted in French. Students may choose which of the two pieces they wish to write in French.
· In marking these essays, 70% of the mark is given to content, and 30% to the French language.
· Such work must be word-processed. Students must include an electronic word count with their essays. Essays of excess length will be returned and resubmission required.
· For essay writing guidelines, please refer to the comprehensive document circulated in JF (available on the Local pages of the French department website). This document also contains guidelines on referencing conventions and the presentation of material.
ES students follow the Ideas into Politics lecture course (FR2006), but not the weekly seminars. The same conditions apply to the submission of essays.
CSLF students follow the French Language - Evolution and Structure lecture course (FR2022), but not the weekly seminars. The same conditions apply to the submission of essays.
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Study Skills
Students should be aware that Trinity College Dublin is currently subscribed to Skills4studycampus, a fully interactive e-learning resource, which helps students to develop the study skills they need to be successful at university and is suitable for students on all courses and in any year of study. It covers a range of core skills through a wide variety of interactive activities, tests and assessments.
To access this resource, go to: http://www.tcd.ie/Local and click on the Skills4Study link
Students should use this resource in order to access information on, among other things, how to improve their note-taking skills, how to manage deadlines, and how to avoid plagiarism.
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Attendance
Students are reminded that attendance is compulsory. Poor attendance may result in the refusal of permission to sit annual exams. According to the regulations as set out in the College Calendar (H6, §23, 24, 25) a student's performance may be deemed non-satisfactory where they fail to attend one third of their course or fail to submit one third of their course work. In SF French, this regulation is interpreted as follows: a student's performance is deemed non-satisfactory where s/he misses three language classes or three oral classes in a given term, or where s/he fails to submit three of the eight 'contrôle continu' exercises. Students reported as non-satisfactory on two occasions (e.g. in MT and 'contrôle continu' exercises, or in MT and HT) may be refused permission to take their annual exams.
FR2018: IDEAS INTO POLITICS
(Dr Alyn Stacey, Dr Arnold, Dr Hanrahan, Dr Opelz)
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
· Analyse critically and independently, in English and French, extracts from major historical, political and cultural texts and documents ranging from the 16th century to the 21st century
· Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the historical, cultural and political development of France from the 16th to the 21st century, as reflected in the texts used in the course
· Organise and present ideas in English and French, in writing and orally, within the framework of a structured and reasoned critical argument
· Demonstrate an awareness of the relevant philosophical, political and historical approaches to ideas and social and political development of France from the 16th to the 21st century
· Use the appropriate methodologies and relevant resources for the presentation of their work.
· Produce essays in both English and French demonstrating the ability to organise, analyse and evaluate relevant material.
· Use the appropriate methodologies and relevant resources for the presentation of their work
The purpose of this course is twofold. Firstly, it aims to acquaint students with the ideological traditions of modern France, stretching back to the Renaissance and forward to the post-war period. Secondly, it aims to encourage close reading of texts, and to develop skills in the analysis of arguments, and of the suppositions and values embedded in them. This function is served primarily by the seminars. With the exception of Pascal’s Pensées and Voltaire’s Lettres philosophiques, all texts required for these will be available in the form of an Anthology available from the Departmental website.
The Ideas section of the course-work annual examination comprises both essays and commentaries. For the commentaries, students will be asked to place the extract in its historical context; to analyse its contents; and to indicate its interest in relation to the themes of the course. Whether a particular subject-area is examined by essay or commentary may vary.
Lecture schedule
Michaelmas Term
Week 1 Fashioning Politics in 16th-Century Society: Montaigne’s De la coustume et de ne changer aisément une loy receüe (SAS)
Week 2 De la coustume…(continued) (SAS)
Week 3 A Sceptic’s Guide to International Politics: Montaigne’s Des Cannibales (SAS)
Week 4 Montaigne, Political Idealist? (SAS)
Week 5 Pascal’s Pensées: Man and Society in the 17th Century (SAS)
Week 6 No lecture (Public Holiday 28th October)
Week 7 Study Week
Week 8 Pascal’s Pensées: Man and Society in the 17th Century (SAS)
Week 9 Pascal’s Pensées: Man and Society in the 17th Century (SAS) Week 10 Voltaire’s Lettres philosophiques (JH)
Week 11 Voltaire’s Lettres philosophiques (JH)
Week 12 The ‘Anti-Pascal’ in the Lettres philosophiques (JH)
Hilary Term
Week 1 The French Revolution (EA)
Week 2 Napoleon and the First Empire (EA)
Week 3 From Restoration to Republic, 1815-48 (EA)
Week 4 Napoleon III and the Second Empire (1848-70) (EA)
Week 5 Intellectuals against the Republic (1871-1914) (EA)
Week 6 ‘Les Guerres franco-françaises’ and the Dreyfus affair (EA)
Week 7 Study Week
Week 8 ‘Neither Right nor Left’: Politics in the Interwar Years (1918-44) (EA)
Week 9 Resistance and Collaboration (1940-44) (EA)
Week 10 No lecture (Bank Holiday 17th March)
Week 11 Intellectuals and Decolonisation (HO)
Week 12 May 1968 (HO)
Select Bibliography
The Age of Montaigne
Departmental edition provided of two essays: De la coustume et de ne changer aisément une loy receüe and Des Cannibales
Janine Garrison, A History of Sixteenth-Century France, 1483-1598, London: Macmillan, 1995
R. J. Knecht, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610, London: Fontana, 1996
Pascal and the Seventeenth Century
Edition: Pascal, Pensées, ed. Dominique Descotes, Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 1976; any other edition may be used providing it is based on Léon Brunschvicg’s text
John Cruickshank, Pascal: Pensées, London: Grant and Cutler, 1988
Pascal: Thématique des Pensées, ed. L. M. Heller and I.M. Richmond, Paris, Vrin, 1988
Kearns, Edward J., Ideas in Seventeenth-Century France: the Most Important Thinkers and the Climate of Ideas in which They Worked, Manchester: Manchester UP, 1979
Janet Morgan, ‘Pascal’s “Three Orders”’, Modern Language Review, 73 (1978), 755-766
Michael Moriarty, Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France, Cambridge: CUP, 1988
Voltaire and the Enlightenment
Edition: Voltaire, Lettres philosophiques, introduced by René Pomeau, Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 1999; edition introduced by Frédéric Deloffre (Paris: Gallimard, 1986) may be used.
Theodore Besterman, Voltaire, Oxford: Blackwell, 1976
Nicholas Cronk, The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
Daniel Roche, Les origines culturelles de la Révolution française, Paris: Seuil, 1990
Ira Owen Wade, The Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971
The Revolution
Alfred Cobban, Aspects of the French Revolution, London: Paladin, 1973
François Furet, Penser la Révolution française, Paris: Gallimard, 1978
Paul R. Hanson, Contesting the French Revolution, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Roger Magraw, France 1815-1914. The Bourgeois Century, London: Fontana, 1983
Roger Price, A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France, London: Hutchinson, 1987
D.M.G. Sutherland, France 1789-1815. Revolution and Counterrevolution, London: Fontana/Collins, 1985