Valerie Thiers-Thiam’s Profile

Faculty
Active 1 year, 10 months ago
Valerie Thiers-Thiam
Title
Associate Professor
Pronouns
She/her
Email
vthiersthiam@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office Location
S601U
About Me
I have been teaching French at BMCC since 2003. I hold a Masters in Applied Languages and Communication, a Masters in German, and a PhD in Francophone Literature and Cinema, with a specialization in West Africa. My research is currently on Resilience and Francophone women Literature. I have lived in NYC since 1992. I lived in Oklahoma for 3 years from 1989-1992. I am American and French.  
Academic Interests
Second Language Acquisition, Resilience, Francophone Women Literature
Department
Modern Languages
Academic Program
French, A.A.

Courses

FRN 200- Intermediate French- Fall 2022- Thiers-Thiam

FRN 200- In­ter­me­di­ate French- Fall 2022- Thiers-Thiam

While re­view­ing and prac­tic­ing ad­vanced gram­mar, stu­dents will be trained to write a va­ri­ety of texts, in­clud­ing per­sonal es­says, movie re­views, as well as aca­d­e­mic es­says.

Communities

Teaching on the OpenLab | Summer 2022

Teach­ing on the Open­Lab | Sum­mer 2022

A vir­tual learn­ing com­mu­nity for fac­ulty who ap­plied and were ac­cepted to par­tic­i­pate in the June 2022 Teach­ing on the Open­Lab. (image credit: “OPEN” by Tom Magliery is li­censed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Projects

REMEMBERING OUR DEAR ALICIA PERDOMO!!

RE­MEM­BER­ING OUR DEAR ALI­CIA PER­DOMO!!

Pic­tures, mem­o­ries, notes of ap­pre­ci­a­tion, vi­gnettes, anec­dotes, etc. of Ali­cia’s life