FRCH& 123 - French III

5 Credits

Students continue to develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills as well as cultural awareness of the global French speaking world.

Pre-requisite(s) FRCH& 122 min 1.5
Course Note Previously FREN 103.
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Spring Day

Designed to Serve Designed for transfer students to fulfill language requirements, students needing Humanities distribution credits, vocational students in the fields such as Transportation or Hotel Management, and students seeking personal enrichment.
Active Date 20210211T14:42:49

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 25
Shared Learning Environment Yes
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
AA

Humanities Area I

Course Outline
Communication Skills:

Aural and oral: increasing fluency and mastery of idiomatic expressions and vocabulary about body parts, health, dress and appearance, manners, feelings, politics, nature and the environment.

Knowledge Building:

Continued and increasingly complex reading and writing expressions, sentences, and paragraphs. Some useful elements of grammar in the context of usage: reflexive verbs, adverbs, indirect objects, comparatives and superlatives, imperfect verb tense, interrogative pronouns, future and conditional tenses.

Diversity and Culture:

Continued exploration of the life and cultures of the French-speaking world: geographical locations and cultural practices in the global francophone world such as Quebec, Madagascar, Guyana, Cameroun, and Senegal.

Student Learning Outcomes
Interpersonal. Express self in conversations on very familiar topics, using a variety of words, phrases, simple sentences, and questions that have been highly practiced and memorized.

Interpretive. Answer questions and articulate the meaning of the main idea from simple, highly predictable oral, or written texts, with strong visual support.

Presentational. Present information in front of an audience on very familiar topics, using a variety of words, phrases and sentences that have been practiced and memorized.

Cultural. Use culturally appropriate gestures and formulaic expressions in highly practiced applications for interpersonal written and oral communication.

Comparisons. Compare and contrast own culture and language to derive meaning from visual or written texts.

Connections. Present and discuss concepts and information of other disciplines through the French language.

Communities. Participate in communities at home and abroad in France.