After completing this course students are able to:
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understand most uncomplicated speech in varied domains (television, radio talk, lectures) and take notes,
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initiate, sustain and close a general conversation with a number of strategies appropriate to a range of circumstances and topics such as topics related to curriculum, to other courses you are taking at UC, news of the world,
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perform simple but connected discourse, simple narration, or descriptions,
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write simple letters, short papers, summaries, and to take notes on familiar topics,
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be understood by interlocutors not accustomed to dealing with non-native speakers,
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name, identify and analyze key events of French history (between XVIIIth and XXth century)
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analyze extracts from French literature
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relate development of modern dance in France
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identify, illustrate, interpret, and manage professional situations where the French corporate culture is involved.
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The course is based on the development of skills and strategies that enable students to successfully handle most uncomplicated oral and written tasks, and social situations they may be confronted with in daily life in France or in French-speaking countries. The course focuses as well on a panorama of French culture. This panorama is presented in four different modules: history of France, French literature, emergence of modern dance and its interaction with painting and corporate culture.
Format
The classroom language is French. The main activity is to perform oral and written communication tasks individually, in pairs, or in a group. Performing a task means that students mainly focus a target they want to reach (asking a questions, gathering information, making an appointment, giving their own opinion etc..).
Students regularly evaluate themselves and their fellow students' performance to reflect upon and report to the class. Students also evaluate their own approach to language learning in order to find ways to ameliorate their performance and skills. The instructor may provide students with extra activities to help them reach a certain level on some particular skill. Students are expected to come up with questions as a means to solve their own personal learning problems.
Each week 10 hours of self-study are spent on tasks such as:
- preparing communication tasks performed in class,
- working on grammar/ vocabulary exercises,
- preparing presentation,
- working on the portfolio (reading newspapers/magazines/novels/surfing on the Internet)
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