FREN 201-02, Intermediate French, Spring 2008

Abstract

The goal of this course is to help you develop and expand your skills for understanding and producing French, both spoken and written, and building socio-cultural competency for communicating with people in the francophone world. Since this course focuses on communication, it is extremely important to speak only French in the classroom in order to maximize your opportunities to use the language. Course objectives for French 201: • Speak French with enough accuracy to ask and answer questions on a variety of topics. Move beyond “survival” French and use French to develop ideas and descriptions into complete sentences with increasing accuracy and decreasing hesitation. • Comprehend the main idea and some supporting details of short conversations (spontaneous or recorded) in French. • Read and understand the main idea and most details in literary and non-literary texts. • Write longer paragraphs that demonstrate use of transition and that are more cohesive than simple phrases, typical of writing at the elementary level. • Have a better understanding of French and francophone cultures, and their cultural implications on written texts and visual images. • Have mastered basic grammatical structures and develop a better understanding of how French functions as a language.