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Hannelore Jarausch received her Ph.D. in eighteenth-century French literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is teaching professor emerita in French and was director of the French language program at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she taught courses in methodology, language and literature. Dr. Jarausch has been named Foreign Language Teacher of the Year (Higher Education) in 2009-2010 by the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. Dr. Jarausch's research interests focus on language teaching and teaching assistant training. She has presented at ACTFL, Central States and the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. Clare Tufts received her Ph.D. in French literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. She is professor of the practice emerita in the Departments of Romance Studies and Linguistics at Duke University, where she served as director of the French language program for thirty-one years. She has published articles and book chapters on language acquisition and pedagogy, the modern political theatre in France, Alfred Jarry and political propaganda in French cartoons. She authored one of the first computerized grammar tutorials (Micro-Review in French), which was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1990. Dr Tufts' current research interests include second-language acquisition and French comic art.

PR�LUDE: Le fran�ais dans le monde.
LECTURE: Lynda Lemay: Les maudits Fran�ais".
1. Les Etudes.
VOCABULAIRE: les lieux, les gens, les choses, les activit�s; LECTURES: Fa�za Gu�ne: Kiffe kiffe demain; L'�tudiant: J'ai �tudi� un an � Vancouver; STRUCTURES: Verb review: payer, s'ennuyer; Present indicative; Infinitives; Imperatives; Faire causative.
2. Les Jeunes.
VOCABULAIRE: les v�tements et les accessoires, les activit�s et les passe-temps quotidiens; LECTURES: Le Figaro: Les jeunes pl�biscitent le service civique; Diam's: "Jeune demoiselle"; STRUCTURES: Verb review: d�crire, s'asseoir; Descriptive adjectives; Comparative and superlative of adjectives; Tout; Interrogatives; Il (Elle) est vs. C'est.
3. Les Immigr�s.
VOCABULAIRE: Pr�sent ou pass�?, l'immigration, questions sociales, la vie active; LECTURES: Francis Bebey: A la recherche d'un travail; J.M.G. Le Cl�zio: Printemps. STRUCTURES: Verb review: accueillir, mourir; Imperfect (Imparfait); Pass� compos� vs. imperfect; Pluperfect (Plus-que-parfait); Past infinitives; Le mot juste: manquer �, rendre, partir, sortir, quitter.
INTERLUDE 1: Loukoum et Camembert.
LECTURE: Les Escrocs: "Loukoum et Camembert."
4. En Route!
VOCABULAIRE: les moyens de transport, les gens qui se d�placent, le d�placement, les activit�s, les probl�mes et les solutions; LECTURES: Le Figaro: Le service de v�los en libre-service affiche un bilan mitig� en 2011; Fernand Raynaud: La 2 CV de ma s�ur STRUCTURES: Verb review: conduire, mettre; Articles; Object pronouns, y and en; Order of pronouns; Disjunctive pronouns; Le mot juste: se moquer de.
5. Les Voyages.
VOCABULAIRE: pourquoi?, comment?, o�?, quoi?; LECTURES: Marcel Pagnol: Le ch�teau de ma m�re; Didier Tilman: Voyage autour du monde; trois ans de vagabondage; STRUCTURES: Verb review: Verbs in -ger, prendre, d�couvrir; Prepositions with geographical names; Future tense and conditional forms; Future perfect and past conditional; If-clauses; Pass� simple.
6. Cin� et T�l�.
VOCABULAIRE: le cin�ma, la television; LECTURES: Albert Robida: La t�l�vision--un r�ve du XIXe si�cle; Albert Camus: Le Premier homme; STRUCTURES: Verb review: pr�f�rer, projeter; Negative expressions; Relative pronouns; Le mot juste: il s'agit de.
INTERLUDE 2: T'�tais pas n�.
LECTURE: Frasiak: "T'�tais pas n�."
7. Traditions.
VOCABULAIRE: les personnages, les contes; LECTURES: Jean de La Fontaine: La Grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le Boeuf; Un conte corse: La fleur, le miroir et le cheval. STRUCTURES: Verb review: croire; What is the subjunctive? Formation of the subjunctive; Usage of the subjunctive.
8. En Famille.
VOCABULAIRE: la famille moderne, les amis, les rapports, des traits de caract�re, au foyer; LECTURES: Femme Magazine: "G�neration Tanguy" ou l'ind�pendance tardive�; Simone de Beauvoir: M�moires d'une jeune fille rang�e; STRUCTURES: Verb review: vivre, venir; Adverbs, Comparison of adverbs, Comparison of nouns; Demonstrative pronouns.
9. Sans Frontiers.
VOCABULAIRE: le monde, l'environnement, des demarches; LECTURES: Pierre Perret: "Je suis vert de col�re"; Terre de liens: Deux jeunes agriculteurs; STRUCTURES: Verb review: atteindre; What is a function? Requesting information; Hypothesizing; Describing; Expressing opinions or reactions; Disagreeing; Narrating.
POSTLUDE: Les Cajuns.
LECTURE: Bruce Diagrepont: "Disco et fais-do-do.""