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Designed for French majors or minors (or students with reading fluency in French) enrolled in any French Upper Division course taught in English (numbered from 153 to 156, and 189), or Comparative Literature UD courses taught by French faculty. Students will read materials in French, meet with the instructor to discuss them and complete assignments in French in order to improve their linguistic and cultural fluency.

Prerequisites: Instructor approval and concurrent enrollment in any French Upper Division course taught in English (numbered 153 to 156, and 189) or any UD Comparative Literature course taught by French faculty.

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Upper division only

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Letters and science

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MOAK D
David Moak
4.1
94 reviews
Fall 2025 . Phillips M E
Fall 2025 . Nesci C
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FR3 . Moak D 6 Months Ago

Prof Moak is hilarious and makes learning a new language fun! He genuinely cares about his students and I want to take an upper div with him next quarter!

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FR154E . Moak D 8 Months Ago

Doctor Moak is the best professor at ucsb. He makes every class easier just because he truly explains everything in a way that's easy to understand. I have had other professors who are also highly educated but no one as humble and passionate as Dr Moak.

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FR154E . Moak D 8 Months Ago

Professor Moak is very passionate about this class and its topic and this really shows in his lectures. I think this class is a very doable writing elective for non-French or comp lit majors and is interesting to anyone unfamiliar with the topic.

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FR154E . Moak D 8 Months Ago

He is such a great lecturer the best one I've had at UCSB. There is a midterm and a final take home paper very fair grader and the midterm has a study guide that is extremely helpful for test.

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GLOBAL1 . Moak D 9 Months Ago

Took him for Global 1 when i first transferred here. Very clear instructions for the midterm and final. Funny guy lowk and pretty good lectures

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FR50AX . Moak D 9 Months Ago

His class was fairly easy and interesting. Made his slides easy to follow along and provided them before lecture began. It went a lot into Roman time and the metaphors used in the readings. There were three readings (poems, a long story, and few chapters of a book). Would recommend this class and professor.

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