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Apr 19, 2024
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2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
French Major with Adolescence Education
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The purpose of the major program is to educate students to think and perceive rationally and critically. This education includes reading and thinking; learning about literary and cultural movements; and making connections between the primarily aesthetic literary artifacts of the culture and its political, social, and economic history.
Through the Emerson Foreign Language Laboratory, students are trained to use new learning and technology media at all language levels to allow them to communicate effectively in the world. Likewise, they are encouraged to prepare themselves philosophically and practically to make linkages between the major and other academic disciplines.
The student majoring in French learns about the world of ideas and letters, past and present. This training requires at least one semester of study abroad; one year is recommended. The cohesive, integrated program of foreign language, culture, and literature courses ensures maximum proficiency in the target language.
All resident French majors are required to spend at least two years in the Maison Française. One of these must be the year following their academic year in France, to allow them to maintain fluency in the language skills acquired abroad.
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French Core
French majors are required to take the following courses. (Note: Any of these courses, except for the 301-302 and 401-402 series, can be taken abroad)
- Four Upper Division French courses (300 level) credits: 12
As well as: French Study Abroad Program
In affiliation with the Université de Haute-Bretagne, Nazareth College offers an
academic year in Rennes, France. The core program for French majors includes the
following basic courses, which vary in degrees of complexity and intensity:
language-composition; conversational-structural analysis and explication de
texte; phonetics; literature; contemporary French civilization; history of art.
Students may select elective courses from a wide area including such fields as
history, English, fine arts, foreign languages (Celtic, German, Spanish,
Russian) and literature and economics.
Required Courses for Adolescence Education
The following courses are required for Adolescence Education for majors in Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Mathematics, Theatre, (English Certification) French, Italian, German, or Spanish.
- Student Teaching and Curriculum Methodology: These courses hold the academic department acronym. These course are numbered 457, Curriculum Methodology: Middle School and Senior High in their area of certification and 479, Student Teaching or professional semester in their area of certification (Ex: HIS 457 or MTH 457).
Additional Program Option: Teaching Students with Disabilities at the Adolescence level (Grades 7 - 12) (Dual Certification)
Students also have the option of completing required coursework and field experiences that would lead to another certification in Teaching Students with Disabilities at the Adolescence level. This dual certification option is designed to provide the knowledge base to support student learning in content areas at the adolescence level, as well as to specifically meet the needs of students who have special education needs in grades 7-12 by means of differentiated instruction and collaborative teaching.
Students who elect to pursue this option complete the following courses in addition to the required courses for Adolescence Education listed above: French Senior Experience
The Senior Experience for
the French major culminates with two literature seminars, FRN 401-402,
that encourage students to develop further scholarly and critical
thinking, including current theoretical discussions in the academy.
The Comprehensive
Examination (written, oral) provides students with the threefold opportunity:
- to demonstrate a working knowledge of French culture and literature
Sample Program for the French Major with Adolescence Education
Freshman Year
- Perspectives I Credits: 9
- Math and Science Perspectives I Credits: 7
As well as:
Sophomore Year
- Minimum of one semester abroad.
- Perspectives I Credits: 9
- Perspectives II Credits: 3
- Math or Science Perspectives II Credits: 3
- French (300 level) Credits: 6
As well as: Junior Year
- Perspectives II Credits: 6
- French (300 Level) Credits: 3
- Electives Credits: 6
As well as: Senior Year
- French (300 Level) Credits: 3
- Liberal Arts Electives Credits: 6
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