Peur du jour: 14 Mars 2012: Inquiry
So for my class at UPV that nearly always flabbergasts me, we found out that we have our final paper due very shortly. Like in two weeks (the professor may move it back because the French students were NOT happy).
Luckily it is a partner project, so Jason and I will work on it together. All the same, we have been kind of agitated with the situation because the professor never seems to be very helpful when we ask him about what the requirements are. We had kind of settled on a topic and were going to start brainstorming about what the paper would be investigating when Jason just decided to go ask the professor (again) what the deal was exactly.
So glad he did that. I guess the billionth time is a charm and this time the professor finally understood that we were American students in a final-semester French class. This means that we aren't being pushed out into the real world like the other French students (either for more schooling or for a job which relates to this subject matter). This also means that French is not our first language, and maybe it would be a little unrealistic to expect us to craft something on the same level as the other students who have been doing it for years.
So he told us how to do the assignment in a way that works better for our strengths. Essentially we will be creating a dossier that does explore a topic, but also that is a portfolio of our research (which means we can have lots of graphs and primary-source documents.) He also said that he would be evaluating us while keeping in mind our status as American study-abroad students.
Relief.
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