Maria Antonieta Garcia-Lam
Mills Faculty
Email: magarcia@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.5526
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Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
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FREN 3212S - Early Intermed French
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT AT MILLS CAMPUS
This course will concentrate on the systematic acquisition of strategies for written expression through progressive practice, with topical review of basic morphological and syntactic structures. Literary excerpts will be used to illustrate and explain the grammar studied, making this an introduction to French and francophone literature. Written production will reflect an understanding of the authors studied.
Required Textbook : Littérature progressive du français avec 600 exercices. Niveau débutant. Blondeau, Allouache & Né. (Clé International : 2004) ISBN : 209-033885-7
Summer 2010, Summer 2011
FREN 3306S - Grammar & Composition
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT AT MILLS CAMPUS
Voyage dans l’écriture/ Journey in Writing (.5 unit)
"This French composition course will systematically approach the necessary strategies for written expression while literary pieces/excerpts will be used to illustrate and explain the grammar studied. In a creative approach to process writing, learners will work in pairs/small groups to select a literary text of a particular genre (short story, poem, epistolary writing, theater, essay) and construct a story with embedded grammatical, rhetorical, and stylistic constraints.
Required Textbook: Littérature progressive du français avec 600 exercices. Niveau intermédiaire. Blondeau, Allouache & Né. (Clé International: 2005) ISBN: 209-033756-7
Summer 2010, Summer 2011
FREN 3411S - Adv Grammar & Composition
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT AT MILLS CAMPUS
Écrire: de la grammaire au texte / Advanced Grammar and Composition
(.5 unit)
In this advanced course students will review fundamental grammatical structures and principles through the study of literary pieces/excerpts. The study of different literary genres will enable students to construct progressively a repertoire of textual forms (narrative, descriptive, expressive, and argumentative) in order to communicate flexibly and fluently in writing.
Required textbook : Lectures d'auteurs - 45 textes littéraires annotés avec exercices. Marie Barthe & Bernadette Chovelon . (PUG : 2009) ISBN : 978-2-7061-1563-9.
Summer 2010, Summer 2011
