FREN-11033 credit hours

Elementary French 3

French Studies · 3 hrs Lecture | 1 hrs Lab

Offered: Fall Or Winter Or Spring, Every Year

FREN-1103 prerequisites

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Placement test

FREN-1102Elementary French 2

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Placement test

FREN-1100Elementary French 1

the former FREN-1001

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Description

This course is intended for students with some knowledge of French wishing to bring their proficiency up to the entrance level for a Major or Minor in French. The focus is on the review of basic grammatical skills (e.g. pronouns, past tenses, simple sentences), and on the gradual acquisition of complex structures (e.g. subordinate clauses, tenses of the conditional and the subjunctive). Lexical skills are targeted through reading activities (e.g. magazine articles, short poems or narratives) and by listening to audio documents (e.g. songs, video clips). The weekly one-hour lab (travaux pratiques)) is dedicated to developing greater ease with using vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. Writing tasks evolve from shorter to longer sentences and to compositions.

Requisite courses

Placement test, or FREN-1102(3), or the former FREN-1001(6) [prerequisite(s)]; FREN-1103L (lab) (must be taken concurrently).

Restrictions

Students may not hold credit for this course and FREN-1111 | FREN-1112.

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