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Department of Modern Language and Comparative LiteraturesBaruch CollegeFall 2016Instructor: Professor LargentCourse Number, Class Time, & Location: FRE 1001 MFAFriday 11:10 a.m.- 2:05 p.m. B-Vert 4-216 Office hours: by appointmentPhone: 917-648-5361 (for emergencies only please) E-mail: cklargent5@Learning Goals: - To learn to develop the four communicative language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.- To exchange information, to understand, ask and answer questions on familiar topics such as classroom subjects, time, dates, school schedules, family relationships, and nationalities.- To describe people (family and friends), to describe the weather and seasons, clothing and colors, rooms and furniture in the house.- To be able to express preferences, order food and drink, go shopping, and to plan travel and vacation activities.- To learn to communicate in the present tense, the near future and to begin to narrate actions and events in the recent past.- To develop an understanding of cultures and customs of French-speaking countries around the world.Materials and Resources: TextbookValdman, Pons, and Scullen. Chez Nous. Pearson, 2014, Fourth Edition ISBN: 978-0-205-93376-1Purchased book comes with Workbook that is also required for this course. Book sold at Bookstore comes with Online Code. However, you may only purchase online code since the e-book is included in online materials. Bear in mind, however, that access to online material is limited. 4-5 months.Online Resources Via PearsonGo to Got Course ID = TBAStudent Registration Help with Videos (click on link) LabMandatory Lang Lab Attendance; 1/2 hr per week or 1 hr every two weeks. Listen to audio and video recordings online. Great way to practice listening skills and pronunciation. Self-tutored computer drills, and additional French exercises must be used during lab time.)See the two PDF docs on Blackboard, with specific requirements and schedule.Tutoring is strongly recommended. Free tutoring is available (VC 2nd Fl/ SACC office).HomeworkWorkbook Assignments chapters 1-8 will be AUTO GRADED (you grade your own homework using a red pen). This will be handed in to me at the completion of every other chapter, (when we also have a short review test, see below). INCOMPLETE/ no credit will be given if assignments are missing. I will not accept any late homework.Accessible ParticipationBaruch College is committed to making individuals with disabilities full participants in the programs, services, and activities of the college community through compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. It is the policy of Baruch College that no otherwise qualified individual with a disability will be denied access to any program, service, or activity offered by the university. Individuals with disabilities have a right to request accommodations. If you require any special assistance or accommodation, please contact the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities at (646)?312-4590, and let me know as soon as you can, ideally during the first three weeks of the semester. I encourage persons with disabilities or particular needs that impact course performance to meet with me to co-design accommodations.For additional information see: PoliciesAttendance:If you have more than 2 absences, your final course grade will be lowered by a half letter for each additional absence (a B+ becomes a B)—and your grade likely will be otherwise affected simply because of the activities and work you’ll miss.If you miss class more than 4 times, you must arrange to meet with me privately and, according to Baruch College policy, you will be subject to a WU grade, which counts as an F on your transcript and your GPA. From the official Baruch College attendance policy: “If a freshman or sophomore is absent in excess of twice the number of class sessions per week, the instructor must give the student a WU grade, which counts as an F. The instructor may give a junior or senior a WU grade if he/she has excessive absences. Attendance and lateness clearly play a role in class participation. Instructors have the right to weigh attendance, lateness, and class participation in determining grades.”If you must miss class, let me know ahead of time if possible to make sure you stay caught up. If you miss unexpectedly, check the schedule on our course website and make friends with someone in class to see what you missed so you can stay up with your work. If you miss class, please do not email me asking what we did in class, or, worse, if we did anything in class you should know about. If an assignment is due on a day that you miss because of an unexcused absence, you are responsible for keeping up with the daily schedule and contacting someone in the class to see what you missed and for turning in your work at the same time it was due for those who were in class [see “Late Work”]. Late PolicyBecause showing up on time and respecting other people are important parts of being a good student (in your case), a good teacher (in my case), and ultimately a good human being, I’ll hold all of us to a standard of being on time to class and staying until class is over. Late arrivals and early departures are disruptive and ultimately disrespectful. Therefore, if you arrive late to class late more than twice it will count as an absence. The same will hold true if you leave class early more than twice. If you do arrive late to class, please check with someone nearby to see what you may have missed. Quizzes & ExamsThere will be a short test at the end of every two chapters. Note that if you miss a test, I do not allow make-ups. Please hand in your AUTO GRADED homework on test day. On the syllabus, the assignments will be marked as “Cahier et Contr?le.” There will be also a mid-term, a final exam and an oral test. Frequent quizzes on verbs will be given.GradesClass Participation 10%Homework/Lab15%Contr?les35% (15% for each Contr?le and 5% for verb quizzes)Midterm15%Final Exam & Oral25%Integrity StatementLearning involves the pursuit of truth, which cannot be pursued by presenting someone else’s work as your own. By following the procedure outlined below, you will establish a basis of trust that will remain unless you provide reason to suspect it has been violated:?Visit the college’s Academic Honesty Policy web site:? the material it contains.Send me an email (or bring a signed statement to class) truthfully stating that you have read the web page, understood it, and that you agree to act according to the principles it expresses.?For further discussion of plagiarism and clarification of its parameters, see the online plagiarism tutorial prepared by members of the Newman Library faculty at . If questions remain, ask me. Ignorance is not an acceptable excuse for unacceptable practices. For the record, if you violate the precepts of academic integrity you will receive a zero for the assignment and your name will be forwarded to the Office of the Dean of Students, where a notation will become part of your file at Baruch.??A Definition of Plagiarism?Plagiarism means presenting the work of others as your own. The "work of others" means other people's words and/or ideas. "Presenting...as your own" means including that work in your assignment without adequate citation. Therefore, a slightly longer definition would be "Plagiarism means including in your assignment other people's words and/or ideas without citing them correctly." Here are some hints about citation: When you include the actual words of others, be they from a printed source, from the web, or from a live presentation, they must appear within quotation marks and you must indicate from where and from whom the words came. Otherwise you are plagiarizing. When you include another person's ideas, you must indicate where you found those ideas, even when you are paraphrasing them. Following someone else's sequence of ideas, even if you paraphrase them, also is plagiarism. (An example would be paraphrasing a paragraph from someone else's work, sentence by sentence, even if you include a citation of that author.) If you have any questions about these definitions, please discuss them with me. You can also refer to Baruch's online plagiarism tutorial or to Fowler and Aaron, The Little, Brown Handbook (pp. 629-38) or The Essential Little, Brown Handbook (pp. 150-56), where you can also read about correct styles of citation.????Other Statements, Sources, Resources- Several other statements/approaches may be found at... Students may also be directed to the Student Guide to Academic Integrity at Baruch, available at... Please feel free to peruse our academic integrity summary for faculty... Baruch College's Academic Integrity website... Schedule(Subject to change)Week One: 8/23Introduction Useful Classroom ExpressionsPreliminary Chapter: Lesson 1 Week Two: 9/2Preliminary Chapter: Lesson twoReview and PracticeWeek Three: 9/9Chapter 1: Lesson one and lesson twoWeek Four: 9/16Chapter 1: Lesson ThreeReviewWeek Five: 9/23QUIZ 1CORRECTED WORKBOOK HOMEWORK DUE (Preliminary Chapter and Chapter One) Chapter 2: Lesson 1 and Lesson 2Week Six?: 9/30Chapter 2: Lesson 3ReviewWeek Seven?: 10/7Chapter 3?: Lesson 1 and Lesson 2Week Eight : 10/14 NO CLASSS (Classes follow a Tuesday Schedule) Week Nine: 10/21Chapter 3: lesson 3ReviewWeek Ten: 10/28MIDTERM (Corrected HOMEWORK DUE CHAPTER 2 and CHAPTER 3) Week Eleven: 11/4Chapter 4ReviewWeek Twelve: 11/11 (LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM COURSE)Chapter 5ReviewWeek Thirteen: 11/18Chapter 6 and ReviewWeek Fourteen: NO CLASS – FALL BREAKWeek Fifteen: 12/2QUIZ 2WORKBOOK HOMEWORK DUE (Chapter 4 and Chapter 5) Week 16: 12/9Review for final exam (Comprehensive Chapters 1-6) ................
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