French courses:

• Victor Hugo: Poète, dramaturge, romancier, critique social, artiste (FREN 355) (numbered FREN 345/493 in 2004); a course taught exclusively in French to students who have completed FREN 332, or the equivalent; includes first-year through fourth-year students
  
• The Writing and Reading of Texts (FREN 332, the second course required of U.Va. French majors and minors and prerequisite to most succeeding courses): a composition course that also introduces students to literary text analysis
  
• Graduate courses on theories and methods of teaching French (e.g., FREN 701)
  
• French language and culture courses, from the elementary 101 level through 300-level advanced grammar, including the development of the intensive intermediate course (FREN 232) at U.Va.
  
• Intensive, near-immersion summer language courses that included students living in French Houses

Faculty development courses, workshops, and consultations:

• professional development workshops for colleagues at other institutions and at professional conferences, including the following disparate audiences and topics:
  • high-school and university language teachers on various aspects of teaching a foreign language, most especially on reading, writing, and teaching students with learning disabilities
    
  • faculty and teaching assistants from many academic disciplines on such topics as leading discussions, developing critical-thinking skills, using cooperative learning, teaching interactively, promoting students' responsibility, teaching in the library
  • workshops currently offered
    
  • workshops offered in the past
    
• consultations with individual faculty and TAs through the Teaching Resource Center
  
• In-service workshops and courses for middle- and high-school French, Spanish, and German teachers, for example, the "Institut intensif de français, langue fondamentale," offered through the U.Va. Center for the Liberal Arts.