FREN 2201 - Intermediate French I

3 hours

Prerequisites: FREN 1102. This course will solidify and expand the students’ foundation in speaking, listening, reading, and writing French, as well as deepen their appreciation of Francophone literature and culture. The class will develop the basic skills the students learned in FREN 1101 and 1102 to a higher level of communicative competence. The students’ knowledge of Francophone culture will be enhanced through reading selections from literary and nonliterary works. Oral proficiency will be stressed through classroom debates, presentations, and use of interactive technology. The basic grammar rules, which students learned in the elementary courses, will be highlighted again, together with additional, more complex grammatical structures that they will put in practice by writing short compositions in and outside class. Instruction is in French.