Name: Michel Rocchi

Institution: Puget Sound

Status: Full-time, tenure track

Type: Summer Fellowship

Title: Web-based courses

Duration: July-August 2000

Description: Transform my French 250 course on Culture & Civilization, and FL 390 Modern French Theatre into fully integrated multimedia courses, using web-based material and multimedia. Currently, the courses are hybrid traditional courses with standard take-home assignments. The redesign of these courses would effectively enhance students' experiences, and add to the pool of available courses.

Outcome: 1) The French culture course would comprise four (4) units on: History and key historical figures; society; culture and ideas; and the arts. Each of the units would be fully integrated and available to be taught by Mellonites in a variety of ways suitable to each professor's pedagogical needs.

2) The Theatre course would include comprehensive self-contained units on the following playwrights and texts. These units could be imported and taught in a variety of French literature courses on the Twentieth Century: (in order of assignments)

Jean Cocteau: The Infernal Machine,
André Gide: dipus
Jean Giraudoux: Madwoman of Chaillot,
Jean-Paul Sartre: No Exit, The Flies
Jean Genet: The Maids
Eugène Ionesco: The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Nathalie Sarraute : Collection

The on-line work on the above courses would include informational content such as biographical, bibliographical, Internet links, study questions, tests, and cross cultural material.

Breakdown: Summer stipend for work in July and August. $3000.00