Good class. Elias is a good professor. Not like super easy but I wouldn't say hard either. Very reasonable. Class was structured and that was nice. Assignments to do on your off days (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and over the weekend). These could be pretty quick if you wanted them to be, but I usually took notes and sat with the material to really understand and they'd take about an hour. This material set us up for what we'd be doing in the next class. About every week we'd have a 15 minute conversation to do with a French speaker abroad, and these were so nerve-wracking sometimes but also very helpful. I almost cried during one but I also would feel really good about myself sometimes and really feel like I could speak French. Not time-consuming but stressful sometimes. Sometimes we would have forum assignments to write a few or maybe five sentences or maybe read a 10-page story and/or comment on friends' things. Would also have "Expanded Classroom" assignments that weren't required but were just to prepare for quizzes and tests and stuff. I did these. They were helpful and really quick.

I found that this class was quite disorganized. I came in with a decent amount of French experience (4 years in high school) and left with less confidence in my French speaking abilities than when I entered. I ended up taking this class P/NP because of the sheer lack of grades that had been entered into the grade book by week 6. When he ended up finally entering the grades around week 8, I realized that my grade was much higher than I thought it was, and changing to P/NP wasn't actually necessary. Elias cancelled the first 3 classes due to illness, and then the 4th was cancelled for MLK day, so we ended up having much less class time than what is normally allotted. The class is half in-person lectures and half online modules in the textbook. The homework modules and the lectures don't perfectly match up sometimes. There are 6 quizzes, 2 midterms, and a final exam. You can revise the writing portions of both midterms to get some missed points back. Your lowest quiz is dropped, and you can make up the second-lowest quiz for missed points as well. There's one presentation that's a part of the first midterm, which is the first or second week of classes. The content of the class covers le futur simple, le subjonctif, l'imparfait and le conditionnel, as well as some new vocabulary from each unit. Attendance is mandatory and participation is graded, and I'd recommend going to every class because he would announce when quizzes were going to be the class before they happened because the dates weren't accurate on the syllabus due to missing the first week of classes. Overall I had a fine experience as someone who isn't particularly passionate about French and took the class to fulfill the language requirement.

I'm going to preface this by saying I am awful at French. I made the mistake of not taking this class as P/NP, so if you're reading this, do it before it's too late. Prof Guiedon cancelled the first 3 classes (first whole week) due to illness, and the next one was also cancelled for MLK Day. He never updated the syllabus or Bruin Learn, so I and others were always left in the dark as to what our expectations were for the class. He is very forgiving and understanding, but his "lectures" (if you can even call them that) were unorganized and oftentimes I never really knew what he was teaching us. We would do some assignments we never turned in, and the structure just wasn't there. Exams were alright, but the final exam absolutely murdered me (it's ALL on grammar, passe compose, indicatif, etc.) so good luck lol. Again, PLEASE take P/NP. My GPA and I regret my decision not to every day.