12/21/2024 6:16:26 AM	FREN 4 Course Outline as of Spring 2019	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  FREN 4	Title:  INTERMEDIATE FRENCH-2
Full Title:  Intermediate French-Part 2
Last Reviewed:11/25/2019

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	4.00	Lecture Scheduled	4.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	70.00
Minimum	4.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	1.00			Contact DHR	17.50
		Contact Total	5.00			Contact Total	87.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  140.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 227.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

Speaking, reading and writing in French with discussions and essays to develop linguistic skill and cultural knowledge.  Review and expansion of French 1-3.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
FREN 3 or four years of high school French

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Speaking, reading and writing in French with discussions and essays to develop linguistic skill and cultural knowledge.  Review and expansion of French 1-3.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:FREN 3 or four years of high school French
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1981
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Fall 1981
	6A	Language Other Than English
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.  Converse with near-native proficiency in French at a moderate speed.

2.  Demonstrate comprehension of French spoken by native speakers on nearly all common topics.

3.  Express personal opinions in French on a wide variety of topics.

4.  Interpret the contents of pieces of journalism and literature orally and in writing.

 

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1.  Compose a French essay on topics of general interest over a wide range of personal and societal issues.

2.  Converse and speak extemporaneously on a wide range of personal topics with few errors of grammar.

3.  Demonstrate comprehension of French spoken naturally on a wide range of cultural topics.

4.  Summarize, analyze and interpret French-language short fiction and non-technical non-fiction orally and in writing without a dictionary.

5.  Formulate utterances in French that include all pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions as well as the correct usage of all regular and irregular verbs in tenses and moods.

6.  Produce and employ with relative ease all regular and irregular verb conjugations, all pronouns and all tenses and moods.

7.  Produce original interpretations of texts.

Topics and Scope

I.  French vocabulary and idiomatic expressions

    A.  Travel

    B.  Finances

    C.  Computers

    D.  Style

    E.  Professions

    F.   Art and entertainment

    G.  Politics

II.  Short fictional and non-fictional reading selections

    A.  Works by French authors

    B.  Works by other Francophone authors

    C.  Selections from French-language periodicals

III.  Complex sentences in French involving:

    A.  Tenses and moods (individual and combined: present, passe, compose, imperfect, future, conditional, pluperfect, future perfect, conditional  perfect, subjunctive, past subjunctive, present participle, infinitive)

    B.  Conjunctions and prepositions associated with assigned tenses and moods

IV.  French poems and songs

    A.  Interpretation for content and form

    B.  Correct recitation

    C.  Analysis of cultural content

V.  French spoken at a natural speed by native speakers

VI.  Global issues of the French-speaking world

VII.  Critical thinking skills

    A.  Simple argumentation in French

    B.  Persuasion

    C.  Reaching agreement

    D.  Exploring differences of perspective

Assignments:

1.  Studying one or two lessons from the textbook (averaging 15 pages) per week.

2.  Reading short fiction and articles of cultural interest in French(averaging 7 pages per week).

3.  Memorizing vocabulary and verb conjugations (averaging 75 words per week).

4.  Completing exercises in textbook and workbook (averaging 10 exercises per week).

5.  Chapter tests and final exam that covers reading, writing and speaking in French.

6.  Reading responses (15 minutes per week).

7.  Essays in French (300-500 words per week).

8.  Active participation in classroom discussions and other oral activities in French.

 

Online Assignments

1. Complete online exercises (2 hours per week).

2. View and interpret text-integrated video programs in French (1 hour per week).

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 20 - 30%
Written homework, workbook exercises, essays
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 30 - 40%
Class performances, performance exams
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 30 - 40%
Quizzes, Tests, and Final Exam: Multiple choice, true/false, matching items, completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 5 - 10%
online and video exercises

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Imaginez by Cheri Mitschke, Vista Higher Learning, 3rd Edition (2016).

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