Read, Think, Write in French · French
This was the class, after four semesters of French at Columbia, where I finally solidified many of my conjugations, really got confidence in my French-speaking ability, and had a really lovely time practicing + learning French.
Numerous aspects of French grammar and insight into sentence structure, different forms of writing, and multiple pieces of French and francophone literature.
I learned a lot of french grammar and improved my abilities all around with higher-level french.
In this course we re-enforced previously learned grammar rules but it moved fast! I'm still not sure how I feel about flipped classroom approach and wish we were able to slow down slightly to make certain we do the tedious work to master grammar before going on to more advanced classes.
Medium. Lots of reading at times. The papers were pretty short and the tests were manageable.
Very light: several poems, a few very short stories, a Moliere play and short book (you don't really have to do the reading as long as you make crap up and participate a lot in class). Three 3-4 page essays, 3 grammar-based quizzes, midterm and final.
readings, periodic compositions- pretty light
Intense!!! 5 compositions, 4-5 movies and reaction paragraphs, frequent , 2 midterms, final.
French W3405 is a lot of work but I think this is mostly not Earle's fault. We had 5 compositions totaling about 10 pages (4 had rewrites which allowed us to raise our grade by one degree ex. from A- to A). Also, there were 5 simple grammar quizzes, a midterm, and a final as well as a decent amount of reading (mostly short stories but two novels as well). All the work is graded very fairly and returned promptly.
Lots of reading and stupid grammar exercises that you don't have to do. THE WORST TEXTBOOK EVER!