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202 Course Content:

Required text: Réseau

The following topics are presented in 202:

• Multicultural France
• The Francophone world
• Beaux Arts
• Cinema
• France as seen from without
• France and Europe

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

202 Course Objectives:

• Carry on a conversation (3-10 minutes) about familiar topics from French 101-202
• Understand brief conversations (5-10 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from French 101-202
• Read texts (1-3 pages) about familiar topics from French 101-202
• Read short literary selections (1-5 pages) about unfamiliar topics, with some guidance and the help of a dictionary
• Write brief compositions (1-2 pages) about familiar topics from French 101-202, with the help of a dictionary
• Think and write analytically in French about texts

202 Course Expectations:

In order to meet these goals, students must:

• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary in chapters 7-12 of Réseau (all the verb lists are considered active vocabulary as well)
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical concepts from chapters 7-12
• Recognize the following grammatical concepts and begin using them in guided situations:
  
  The passive voice
  The subjunctive
  Future and conditional forms
  Basic uses of various pronouns
  Faire causatif
  Gerundives, present participles
• Read a variety of literary selections and learn new strategies for reading
• Work on writing strategies in French for narrative, critiques, exposés, other essays