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  • 4.00 Credits

    Emphasizes speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills. Teaches basic language usage and cultural understanding. Focuses on acquiring understanding through activity-based approaches.. Lab access fee of $12 applies.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Students need equivalent knowledge of FREN 1010. Completes the first year of study. Includes the remaining grammar, language concepts, and culture associated with the beginning language sequence. Introduces students to literature in French.. Lab access fee of $12 applies.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Offers novice French speakers opportunities to enhance their speaking proficiency in the target language by focusing on oral verbal production. Teaches how to improve authentic pronunciation, reduce errors in authenticity of language structure, generate thought in the target language spontaneously as a substitute for translation, and sharpen listening comprehension for natural conversational flow. Contrasts with all other first year courses which must strive to produce mastery of the whole range of language acquisition components, including writing, grammar, etc. Facilitates lowering the affective filter when conversing in the target language by increasing the frequency of speech opportunities and defusing concern for such matters as spelling, etc. Increases mastery of lexical items through increased frequency of oral usage. May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credits toward graduation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces students to a French-speaking foreign country for a minimum of 10 days of intensive language and culture study. Course entails several meetings prior to departure and at least one after the return home to facilitate observation and analysis of data to be gathered on the tour. An organized presentation of that data will be contained in a multimedia project due no later than one month after tour.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Students need equivalent knowledge of FREN 1020. Reviews grammar, reading, writing, and conversation skills learned throughout the first year. Introduces readings and discussions on the history, culture, and literature of the French world.. Lab access fee of $12 applies.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Students need equivalent knowledge of FREN 2010. Emphasizes reading, writing, and conversational skills through socio-cultural studies in history, literature and art.. Lab access fee of $12 applies.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202G or equivalent. Explores grammar of French focusing on areas typically difficult for English speakers. Provides extensive instruction in, and opportunity for the students' improvement in language production, both oral and written. Completers should improve considerably their ability to express themselves in the foreign language both orally and in written form.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Students should have equivalent knowledge of FREN 1020. Offers lower division / novice speakers opportunities to enhance their speaking proficiency in the target language by focusing on oral verbal production. Teaches how to improve authentic pronunciation, reduce errors in authenticity of language structure, generate thought in the target language spontaneously as a substitute for translation, sharpen listening comprehension, and develop conversational strategies such as circumlocution and managing a conversation with useful expressions for starting a conversation, gaining time to think, helping the other speaker, seeking agreement, etc. Contrasts with all other first year courses which must strive to produce mastery of the whole range of language acquisition components, including writing, grammar, etc. Facilitates lowering the affective filter when conversing in the target language by increasing the frequency of speech opportunities and defusing concern for such matters as spelling, etc. Increases mastery of lexical items through increased frequency of oral usage. May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credits toward graduation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): (FREN 202G or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Advances mastery of French grammar while emphasizing production skills of speaking and writing. Expands reading and listening skills to a lesser degree. Reviews and extends lexical depth. Allows students without experience living in a French immersion setting to advance in their communication skills to where they may participate more comfortably in future upper division courses with other students who do have immersion experience. Offers a variety of topics presented in a variety of media as content basis for real communicative practice in French. Conducts all course work primarily in French.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): (FREN 202G or equivalent) and University Advanced Standing. Explores different literary genres in the French language throughout the centuries. Provides extensive opportunity for improvement in oral and reading/writing development of language skills, as well as new ways of thinking about literature in cultural contexts. Completers should considerably improve their ability to express themselves in the foreign language. Taught entirely in French.