Lectures and Tests Schedule Fall 2006
French 120 (2) Gunter

Week 1

Sept 6

Introduction to Course

Week 2-3

Sept 11
Sept 13
Sept 18
Sept 20
AND field trip to be arranged

French Identity: Diversity and Geography
Monet Exhibit at Legion of Honor SF

Field Trip Date and Time arranged in Class

Sept 25

Sept 27

Oct 2

Oct 4

Diversity of People

The Gauls and Roman Gaul

Week 6

Oct 9

Oct 11

Monet Report due on Oct 9
2 nd Cultural Quiz on Gauls, and Monuments of Roman Gaul
German Fusion

Feudalism Bayeux Song of Roland

Week 7-8

Oct 16

Oct 18

Oct 23

Oct 25

1 stM/C Reading test French Identity (p.15 -148 included)

France has a Catholic Tradition:
Monasteries and pilgrimages

Romanesque Churches and Gothic Cathedrals

High Middle Ages

Week 9

Oct 30

Nov 1

3 rdCultural Quiz with visual slides from Weeks 7-8
Troubadours

Calamities of the 14 th Century
Definition of the French Renaissance

Week 10

Nov 6

Nov 8

Rise of the Monarchy

French Humanism: Rabelais and Montaigne

Week 11

Nov 13

Nov 15

4 thCultural Quiz on week 10 ( education Rabelais/ Montaigne ) Explorations

2 ndM/C Reading Test ( from p. 149 to 306 included)

Week 12

Week 13

Nov 27

Nov 29

Classical France in the Arts

5 thCultural Quiz Versailles and Control of the Arts
Enlightenment

Week 14

Dec 4

Dec 6

Enlightenment

The Philosophers: Voltaire

Week 15

Dec 11

Dec 13

Slavery
Freedom, Equality, and Brotherhood

Last day of instruction
What is French Civilization?

Week 16