{"id":1637,"date":"2015-03-20T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T17:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2018-02-05T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:48:02","slug":"departmental-history-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2015\/03\/20\/departmental-history-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Departmental History: French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post summarizes changes noted in the French Department by examining the Catalogue of Courses. <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.carli.illinois.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/iwu_catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Course catalogs from 1851-1954<\/a> are available online; the rest are available in print in the University Archives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no evidence of any French courses until 1871 but then it was not offered as part of the main courses of study. In the 1871-72 course catalog, it is stated that \u201cclasses will be organized whenever desired in either of all of them,\u201d which includes French, Italian, and Spanish. This course was offered by a Professor Merriman. However, this only lasted for two school years and ended in 1873.<\/li>\n<li>French was offered again in the 1879-80 academic year during student\u2019s sophomore year. Students could take French, German, Greek, or Latin. Taught by Professor Reymond.<\/li>\n<li>In 1881, French is offered as a post-graduate area of study, or could replace Greek, German, or Latin courses. No instructor was listed.<\/li>\n<li>The 1889-90 academic year French was offered again and then was consecutively offered until present day, with an exception of the 1922-23 academic year where no French was offered.<\/li>\n<li>Often French was accompanied by\/interchangeable with German, but there was a much heavier emphasis placed on German. For instance, in the course descriptions, the German department would receive almost a full page of description whereas French would receive 2-3 sentences. Also, German would have 5+ courses offered whereas French would only have 2 courses.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.carli.illinois.edu\/u?\/iwu_argus,34414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 1, 1889 Elite Journal (p. 12)<\/a> notes students interests in having French courses offered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Titles of French Departments:<\/strong><br \/>\n1889-1895: French (courses)<br \/>\n1895-1899: French and German<br \/>\n1899-1910: Modern Languages (included both French and German, with subheadings for<br \/>\nboth)<br \/>\n1910-1918: Department of French<br \/>\n1918-1921: Romance Languages (French and Spanish)<br \/>\n1922: No French offered<br \/>\n1923-1939: Modern Languages (French, German, and Spanish)<br \/>\n1939-1995: Foreign Language Department (Classical and Modern languages subheadings)<br \/>\n1995-2005: French Department<br \/>\n2005-Present: French and Francophone studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department Chairs\/Heads:<\/strong><br \/>\n1871-1873: Professor Merriman<br \/>\n1879-1880: Professor Reymond<br \/>\n1889-1891: Professor Wait<br \/>\n1891-1892: Professor Steele (head of Modern Languages and Latin)<br \/>\n1892-1895: Professor Heidel<br \/>\n1895-1896: Professor Snyder<br \/>\n1896-1899: Madame de Blumenthal (listed as instructor)<br \/>\n1899-1900: Ms. Shephard<br \/>\n1900-1905: Ms. Smith<br \/>\n1905-1908: Ms. Mitchell<br \/>\n1908-1909: Professor Graham<br \/>\n1909-1911: Professor Eggert<br \/>\n1911-1913: Professor Corstvet<br \/>\n1913-1914: Parlin (listed as instructor)<br \/>\n1914-1916: Professor W. Ferguson<br \/>\n1916-1918: Laitem (listed as instructor)<br \/>\n1918-1921: Professor Norton<br \/>\n1923-1934: Professor W. Ferguson<br \/>\n1934-1944: Professor C. Ferguson and Professor W. Ferguson<br \/>\n1944-1951: Professor C. Ferguson<br \/>\n1951-1952: Professor Norwood and Professor Bettger<br \/>\n1952-1955: Professor Norwood<br \/>\n1955-1957: Professor Labarthe (Professor Norwood on leave)<br \/>\n1957-1959: Professor Deitz<br \/>\n1959-1966: Professor Bettger<br \/>\n1966-1971: Professor Holm<br \/>\n1971-1976: Professor Troyanovich<br \/>\n1976-1979: Professor Moretto<br \/>\n1979-1984: Professor Huseman<br \/>\n1984-1988: Professor McDonald<br \/>\n1988-1990: Professor Fajardo<br \/>\n1990-1993: Professor Klingenberg<br \/>\n1993-1999: Professor Matthews<br \/>\n1999-2002: Professor Callahan<br \/>\n2002-2013: Professor Sheridan<br \/>\n2013-Present: Professor Matthews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post summarizes changes noted in the French Department by examining the Catalogue of Courses. Course catalogs from 1851-1954 are available online; the rest are available in print in the University Archives. There is no evidence of any French courses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2015\/03\/20\/departmental-history-french\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,7],"tags":[21,57],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departmental-histories","category-faculty","tag-classes","tag-secondary-sources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}