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201 Course Content:

Required text: Réseau

The following topics are presented in 201:

• Family relations
• Gender rights, roles and responsibilities
• Urban life
• Politics,  independence, and francophone identity formations
• Social diversity in France
• French cultural icons

In addition, students may read cultural/mass media texts, selected by the professor.

201 Course Objectives:

• Carry on a conversation (3-8 minutes) about familiar topics from French 101-201
• Understand brief conversations (3-8 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from French 101-201
• Read brief texts (1-2 pages) about familiar topics from French 101-201
• Read selected short literary texts, with the help of a dictionary
• Write brief compositions (1-2 pages) about familiar topics from French 101-201 and selected literary texts, with the help of a dictionary

201 Course Expectations:

In order to meet these goals, students must:

• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary in chapters 1-6 of Réseau (all the verb lists are considered active vocabulary as well)
• Formulate personal expressive strategies for discussing family issues, being interviewed for a job, finding lodgings, talking politics, engaging in a formal interview, shopping.
• Develop reading strategies as outlined in chapters 1-6.
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical concepts from chapters 1-6
• Begin producing the following grammatical forms at the Intermediate Low level (ACTFL):
  
  Present tense and imperatives of most commonly used verbs
  Gender, number, articles, nouns, and agreements
  Adjectives and adverbs
  Past tenses
  Interrogatives, possessives, negation
  Relative pronouns