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Oral Communications, Cultural Diversity. Global Diversity. A beginning course in French with emphasis on speaking with attention to reading and writing as well. Three (3) class periods and one supervised conversation each week.
The Beginning French 1 course is based upon the four essential means of language acquisition; through reading, writing, listening and speaking. All of the contents of this course will be approached from this holistic perspective in order to immerse the student into the French language. This is the introduction to French language; its letters, phonetics, spelling, vocabulary and initial grammatical rules will be covered.
Oral Communications, Cultural Diversity. A beginning course in French with emphasis on speaking with attention to reading and writing as well. Three (3) class periods and one supervised conversation each week.
Language lab.
The course content for Beginning French 2 is based upon the four essential means of language acquisition; through reading, writing, listening and speaking. This is the continuation of the introduction to French language now focusing more specifically on vocabulary acquisition, phrases, grammatical rules and structures. Listening and oral exercises will be more heavily relied upon in order to help instill French fluency.
This program consists of three levels of proficiency:
FR 150 for students with no prior knowledge or experience with French,
FR 250 for students who have successfully completed
FR 102 or have the equivalent knowledge or experience with French, and
FR 350 for students who have successfully completed
FR 204 or have the equivalent knowledge or experience with French. The program offers the student the opportunity to become immersed in the French language while experiencing the cultural and societal conditions of the country where the program takes place. The methods used in this program are intended to foster the acquisition of French both in and out of the classroom. The acquisition will take place through students' and teachers' active interaction with the language and daily life in the host country. Students will read, write, and speak French on a daily basis and will be required to analyze social, political, and cultural aspects of their surroundings. Through this process, students also will have the opportunity to develop new perspectives with regard to peoples of other cultures and a point of comparison upon which to base questions of human existence.
Special Topics courses include ad-hoc courses on various selected topics that are not part of the regular curriculum, however they may still fulfill certain curricular requirements. Special topics courses are offered at the discretion of each department and will be published as part of the semester course schedule - view available sections for more information. Questions about special topics classes can be directed to the instructor or department chair.