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French Literature Course Requirements
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The AP Program unequivocally supports the principle that each individual school must develop its own curriculum for courses labeled "AP." Rather than mandating any one curriculum for AP courses, the AP Course Audit instead provides each AP teacher with a set of expectations that college and secondary school faculty nationwide have established for college-level courses. AP teachers are encouraged to develop or maintain their own curriculum that either includes or exceeds each of these expectations; such courses will be authorized to use the "AP" designation. Credit for the success of AP courses belongs to the individual schools and teachers that create powerful, locally designed AP curricula.
The AP French Literature course should be designed by your school to provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that of a third-year college course in French literature. The goal of your course should be to teach students to read, analyze, and understand French literary texts on their own. The syllabus submitted for 2007-2008 must reflect the new AP French Literature Reading List.
Students enrolling in AP French Literature are typically in their fourth or fifth year of language study, or have had equivalent experience with the language.
All students who are willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous academic curriculum should be considered for admission to AP courses. The College Board encourages the elimination of barriers that restrict access to AP courses for students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the AP Program. Schools should make every effort to ensure that their AP classes reflect the diversity of their student population.
High schools offering this exam must provide the exam administration resources described in the AP Coordinator's Manual.
Requirements
To request authorization to label a course "AP," complete the following two steps:
- Complete and submit an AP Course Audit form, on which the teacher and principal attest that their course includes or exceeds the following curricular requirements delineated by college and university faculty.
- Submit an electronic copy of the course syllabus that demonstrates inclusion or improvement on the curricular requirements (see Syllabus Preparation Guidelines). If your course does not include one or more of the curricular requirements but merits designation as a college-level course, see Instructions for Submitting Materials for the process for describing alternate approaches to the course.
 Syllabus Preparation Guidelines
Instructions for Teachers
Instructions on how to submit AP Course Audit materials via the Web will be posted on AP Central and mailed to principals in January 2007.
Curricular Requirements
- The teacher has read the most recent AP French Course Description, available as a free download on the AP French Literature Course Home Page.
AP French Literature Course Home Page
- The course is structured to allow students to complete the entire AP French Literature reading list, published in the AP French Course Description. Abridged versions or films are not appropriate in place of the text.
- The teacher uses French almost exclusively in class and encourages students to do likewise.
- The course teaches students the techniques of literary analysis and a basic vocabulary of critical terms.
- The course includes close reading and extensive discussion of texts, with particular attention to character, theme, structure, and style, and to how these elements are related to overall interpretation.
- Class discussion and essay writing in French are essential components of the course.
Resource Requirements
- The school ensures that each student has a copy of the works being read for individual use inside and outside of the classroom.
- The school ensures that students have access to a school or public library that includes works of prose, poetry, fiction, and drama by a wide range of French language authors.
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