Guided writing course designed to further develop students' ability to communicate more effectively in French. Students will enhance their vocabulary, review challenging structures and learn to self-edit to avoid common errors as they write formal and informal messages and letters, instructions, autobiographical statements, journal entries and comments, current events reports, reactions, descriptions and summaries.
Prerequisites: MFREN 2010 French Stage 3: Cultural Perspectives, MFREN 2020 French Stage 4: Global Connections, MFREN 2030 Perspectives in Language and Culture, or MFREN 2040 Connections in Language and Culture.
MFREN 2010 French Stage 3: Cultural Perspectives (4 hours)
Stage 3: Cultural Perspectives invites students to explore cultural perspectives of French-speaking countries and their own as they review and develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence, thereby enhancing their ability to interact in French with more confidence on familiar topics.
Prerequisite(s): MFREN 1020 French Stage 2: Personal Connections or appropriate placement.
(Normally offered each fall semester.)
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
MFREN 2020 French Stage 4: Global Connections (4 hours)
Stage 4: Global Connections invites students to enhance their intercultural and linguistic competence by exploring cultural, geographical, historical, and social perspectives of French-speaking countries as they develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence, thereby allowing them to engage and interact more effectively with native speakers of French.
Prerequisite(s): MFREN 2010 French Stage 3: Cultural Perspectives or appropriate placement.
(Normally offered each spring semester.)
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Integrative Core: Going Global Thread
MFREN 2030 Perspectives in Language and Culture (4 hours)
Intermediate-level language course invites students to explore cultural perspectives of French-speaking countries and their own as they review and develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence through task-based learning, thereby enhancing their ability to interact in French with more confidence on familiar topics. This is a non-sequential, intermediate-level course that may be taken before or after MFREN 2040.
Prerequisite(s): MFREN 1020 French Stage 2: Personal Connections or appropriate placement.
(Normally offered fall semester.)
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Integrative Core: Going Global Thread
MFREN 2040 Connections in Language and Culture (4 hours)
Intermediate-level language course invites students to enhance their intercultural and linguistic competence by exploring cultural, geographical, historical, and social perspectives of French-speaking countries as they develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence through task-based learning, thereby allowing them to engage and interact more effectively with speakers of French. This is a non-sequential, intermediate-level course that may be taken before or after MFREN 2030.
Prerequisite(s): MFREN 1020 French Stage 2: Personal Connections or appropriate placement.
Normally offered each Spring semester.
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Integrative Core: Going Global Thread
