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Course Description: French 202

202 Course Content:

Required text: Collage

The following topics are presented in 202:

• Media and technologies
• Public events (les spectacles)
• Pastimes, leisure activities
• French in the world
• Beaux arts
• France and North America

In addition, students will read several cultural/mass media texts, to be 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 Collage (all the verb lists are considered active vocabulary as well)
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical concepts from chapters 7-12
• Master usage and production of the following grammatical concepts:

  The passive voice

  The subjunctive

  Formation of the compound tenses

  Basic uses of common pronouns

• Read a variety of literary selections
• Write (and re-write) several analytical essays