Dr. Louise Horner

Dr. Louise Horner has been a professor of modern languages at Northwest Missouri State University since the dawn of time.

Classes taught

• French One
• French Two
• Intermediate French I and Culture
• Intermediate French II and Culture
• French Literature I
• French Literature II
• French Communications

Style & personality

Dr. Horner never brings handouts to class in the upper level courses, except your syllabus, and throughout the entire class period she only lectures. Whenever she does write on the board, it is for examples, not something that will be on the test. You must pay attention to her closely in order to earn a good grade.

In French One and Two, there are assigned homework from a workbook. Most of this stuff is quite boring, but it is helpful since it drills the vocabulary and grammar into your head. In the upper level courses (meaning 200+) she will assign an essay every day, usually one to two pages in French, about various topics. She usually accompies with that a reading assignment from 2 to 10 pages in the textbook. Whatever mistakes you make on these essays you will have to correct and return to her at the end of the semester.

Her tests generally are not too terrible. She will have on one page a fill-in-the-blank section. On the next page she will have "choose the correct verb, tense, subtense, superlative," et cetera, and on the last page she will have you write a few paragraphs on some topic that you covered just barely over in class, but was part of your reading assignment.

Student opinions

I really liked the French classes I took with Dr. Horner. She is a really sweet lady.- Jelavich