French 205 - Intermediate French: Language & Culture

This course offers an intensive review of grammar covered at the beginner level while engaging with literary and non-literary texts and other media. This course deepens students’ knowledge and understanding of the French language and furthers competency in expression and comprehension. In addition, the study of cultural and literary material serves as an initiation to analysis by exploring how language, combined with elements such as form and genre, creates meaning and opens a work to interpretation. Successful completion of FREN 205 prepares students for FREN 207 or 208. Conducted in French.

Requisite: FREN 103 or three to four years of secondary school French. Fall semester: Professor Nader-Esfahani. Spring semester: Professor de la Carrera.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Instruction in languages other than English; speaking, reading, writing and aural comprehension in languages other than English; some emphasis on written work; short readings; group work; visual analysis; aural analysis; in-class quizzes and exams. Students in Professor Nader-Esfahani's section will also be expected to produce creative work.