Lower-Division

Introduction to French language and culture with practice in all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Intended for students with no previous study of French.

Further development of cultural competence and basic French language skills, both written and spoken. Students learn past tenses in this course.

Final quarter of first-year sequence. Students complete study of French language basics, including the future tense and the conditional and the subjunctive moods, while continuing to learn about French and Francophone cultures.

First course in intermediate sequence. Students review and expand upon their previous study of the language through short literary readings, vocabulary building, grammar study, composition, and discussions.

Further development of intermediate-level oral and written skills through study of vocabulary and structures. Students also read and discuss a French or Francophone play.

Final course of intermediate sequence includes grammar study, vocabulary building, extensive writing, and discussion. Reading of a French or Francophone novel is an integral part of course.

Students work on developing fluency and spontaneity in French conversation, focusing on oral expression in a range of common daily situations, including social interactions, navigating transportation systems, securing lodging and accommodations, ordering food in restaurants, and so forth. Students also focus on acquiring vocabulary related to each theme. This course aims to build students’ oral proficiency as well as confidence, especially for students interesting in further French coursework or a sojourn abroad in a French-speaking context (such as one of the UCEAP programs in France).

Taught in English, this course examines core values and events in France, such as Republican values (in the French sense of "Republican"), secularism, globalization, immigration, that have helped shape current French society.

Provides a means for a small group of students to study a particular topic in consultation with a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.