FREN C280: Intermediate French 1
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Top Code | 110200 - French |
| Units | 4 Total Units |
| Hours | 72 Total Hours (Lecture Hours 72) |
| Total Outside of Class Hours | 0 |
| Course Credit Status | Credit: Degree Applicable (D) |
| Material Fee | No |
| Basic Skills | Not Basic Skills (N) |
| Repeatable | No |
| Grading Policy | Standard Letter (S),
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| Local General Education (GE) |
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| Global Society Requirement (CGLB) | Yes |
| California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC) |
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| Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) |
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| California State University General Education Breadth (CSU GE-Breadth) |
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Course Description
Continuation of French 185, designed to develop further the student's ability to read, write, comprehend, and converse in daily spoken and written French at an intermediate level. The course emphasizes improvement of reading and writing proficiency as the basis for improving speaking and listening skills and as the source for cultural understanding. PREREQUISITE: FREN C185 or at least two semesters of college-level French. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC.
Course Level Student Learning Outcome(s)
- Demonstrate oral/aural and written linguistic competence at the intermediate level.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of French cultural behaviors throughout the French-speaking world.
Course Objectives
- 1. Demonstrate appropriate intermediate level written and spoken fluency in the language
- 2. Demonstrate understanding and respect for the cultural and global diversity in the French-speaking countries.
Lecture Content
Vocabulary Personal relationships Marital status Emotional states/feelings Personalities Attitudes/opinions Urban, suburban, and provincial life Activities, practices, sports, enthusiasms People, including sociocultural, ethnic, and religious groups (la foi) Places, including transportation, accessibility, the sense of terroir Things, including property, ownership, contracts Media and their influence Film and television The press, traditional and modern Media personalities, including sports figures, literati, philosophers, etc. Home life Stages of life Generations and the importance of famille Relatives Family life, including the importance of foyer The outside world Animals, including pets and farm animals, animal rights movements, etc. Ecology, including the Green Party, les Ecolos, and their influence Natural phenomena Nature Verbs Present Tense Être, aller, avoir, and other significant irregulars Regular verbs in three conjugation groups Past tense, including passé composé imparfait Future tense, including futur proche/immédiat morphological future Subjunctive, both present and past In nominal clauses and structures with il est… In adjectival adverbial subordinate clauses Imperative Interrogative Conditional, present and past Literary forms, including passé simple Pronouns Direct and indirect object conjunctives Reciprocal and reflexive pronouns Relative and demonstrative pronouns Pronoun placement, including the notion of conjunctivity v. disjunctivity Other grammar Possessive adjectives and pronouns Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, and related interrogatives Comparatives and superlatives Cultures and civilizations of the francophone world Population trends and migrations France and francophone Africa, including le Maghreb DOM-TOM The sense of history, including colonization, etc. Indochine and independent francophone countries in Asia/Southeast Asia Literature “Classics”, including Voltaire, Molière, Rabelais, Rousseau, Montesquieu, DuBellay, Lamartine, Fontaine, and others Drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction and the role of the Académie française Literary awards and their role, including Goncourt, Fémina, etc. Literature, mass media, and the electronic age Literature and literacy in la francophonie
Method(s) of Instruction
- Lecture (02)
- DE Online Lecture (02X)
Instructional Techniques
A variety of activities, (including lecture employing current technology and/or handouts, video and/or audio presentations, pair and group work) will be employed. Intensive and extensive listening and reading in the target language is directed toward raising learners awareness of the lexical nature of language. Activities will be structured to enable the learners to comprehend lexical phrases as unanalyzed "chunks" and to use whole phrases without necessarily having to analyze their constituent parts.
Reading Assignments
Assigned reading of appropriate-level French literature.
Writing Assignments
Assigned short compositions on a variety of topics.
Out-of-class Assignments
Research various French-speaking countries, their customs, geography, history, economy, and form of government.
Demonstration of Critical Thinking
Activities which require learners to become more active and questioning critical thinkers such as group work, project-based work and presentations which involve comparing and contrasting; classifying; evaluating; cause and effect; ranking; identifying right from wrong and facts from opinion; and summarizing will be employed.
Required Writing, Problem Solving, Skills Demonstration
Oral presentations in pairs or small group Aural comprehension with DVD or supersite.
Eligible Disciplines
Foreign languages: Masters degree in the language being taught OR bachelors degree in the language being taught AND masters degree in another language or linguistics OR the equivalent. Masters degree required.
Textbooks Resources
1. Required Schultz J.; Tranvouez, M. Réseau: Communication, Intégration, Intersections, 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 2014 Rationale: - Legacy Textbook Transfer Data: Legacy text
Other Resources
1. Internationally-sourced online materials from http://www.francophonie.org 2. Coastline Library