Course Description
Accelerated course reviewing basic principles of the French language for students with some background of high school French.
Athena Title
Accelerated Elementary French
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in FREN 1002
Prerequisite
Placement Test
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will express ideas in written/oral form using target language with increased clarity and attention to detail.
- Students will formulate more complex constructions in the target language in a wider range of temporal contexts (present, past, and future).
- Students will tailor communication strategy, style, and register for a variety of audiences and/or contexts.
- Students will navigate interpersonal communication with respect, maturity, and/or awareness of cultural differences.
- Students will express linguistic competency in ways that highlight student strengths and individual background knowledge.
- Students will explore and utilize various multimodal means of language production both synchronously and asynchronously.
Topical Outline
- Pronunciation: rhythm, consonants, vowels, liaison.
Basic tenses for communication: present, past, imperfect.
Regular verb conjugations: first, second, third.
High-frequency irregular verbs: avoir, ˆtre, aller, faire, pouvoir, vouloir.
Vocabulary of useful items: personal possessions, food, family members, clothing, shopping, social issues.
Pronouns: subject, object, stressed.
Moods: indicative, imperative, subjunctive.
Vocabulary and structures of conversational topics: time, weather, course work, calendar, numbers.
Readings and culture: technology, the French-speaking world, money, family life.
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture
Syllabus
