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Course Description: French 202
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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 








March 17, 2011