FR 20301 - 2nd-Year French I

Intensive review of grammar, and development of vocabulary, reading, conversation, and writing skills. Reading and discussion of modern French fiction and nonfiction, some composition.

Preparation for Course
P: FR 11201 or placement via departmental placement process.

Cr. 3.
Notes
Indiana Core Transfer Library course.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Understand sentence-length utterances and short connected discourse on a variety of topics, including feelings and emotions, relationships, urban life, the medias, justice and politics, and foods.
2. Be familiar with such listening strategies as listening for the main idea, and listening for the speaker’s tone and intonation.
3. Communicate at an intermediate level of French.
4. Interact successfully with another speaker in French, dealing with a limited number of topics and social situations.
5. Ask and answer questions, and talk in a limited way about your personal interests and activities.
6. Understand paragraphs giving you directions, as well as longer passages dealing with aspects of francophone culture and short literary texts or excerpts. You will probably have to read more sophisticated passages several times to understand.
7. Learn such reading strategies as skimming for the gist, scanning for specific pieces of information, guessing word meanings from context, predicting what might happen next and reading for meaning.
8. Meet a number of practical writing needs: short messages, postcards, notes, letters, or short, coherent compositions using previously studied grammatical structures and vocabulary. You should be able to use the present tense or one other time frame (passe compose, imprarfait or futur) consistently. There should be some evidence of conscious organization.
9. Develop an awareness of French and francophone cultures through textbook readings and class discussions.
10. Interpret and discuss literature and film and an intermediate level.