Course Offerings

This course is a second semester Elementary French course, a continuation of level FR 1010 with emphasis on acquiring basic level of proficiency in the language and understanding the culture of France and the Francophone world. This course will enable students to improve their comprehension skills through the use of authentic audio and video material and to acquire vocabulary to face situations in their real life in Paris. The four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) are reinforced and special emphasis is placed on pronunciation.In-class work will be supplemented by multimedia activities and real-life situations in the City of Paris.

The aim of the course is to improve and widen the listening, speaking and writing skills of those taking it, consolidating their knowledge of the full range of basic grammatical structures and broadening their general range of vocabulary. By the end of the course, students should have reached approximately the level A2 standard on the Common European Framework References for Languages

The aim of the course is to improve and widen the listening, speaking and writing skills of those taking it, consolidating their knowledge of the full range of basic grammatical structures and broadening their general range of vocabulary. By the end of the course, students should have reached approximately the level A2 standard on the Common European Framework References for Languages

This intensive course combines French and Culture I and French and Culture II and provides an accelerated introduction to elementary French. The course emphasizes interpersonal communication and the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills through interactive activities and authentic materials. Culture is used as a key approach to learning the language. Through films, songs, photographs, paintings, graphic narratives, and other short texts, students explore aspects of Parisian and Francophone life while practicing French in meaningful contexts. Students learn to communicate about everyday topics by speaking and writing in the past, present, and future. They practice describing people and places, talking about themselves, their studies, and their surroundings, asking and answering basic questions, making comparisons, expressing preferences, and showing agreement or disagreement.