TOPICS: INTENSIVE FRENCH AND CULTURE in Fall 2023 (FR1910A)

This course is a combination of the French and Culture I (FR1100) and French and Culture II (FR1200) courses. It aims at providing an accelerated introduction to the basic structures of French with intensive work on the development of the four skills necessary to learn a language. In addition to improving your listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities in French, you will also gain cultural insight, learning about the diversity of the francophone world and applying your newly acquired language skills to the interpretation and analysis of a variety of authentic texts including poems and other literary texts, visual media such as films, paintings or advertisements, graphic novels and songs. In class, you will be given several opportunities to practice the language through communicative activities such as role-plays, problem-solving tasks and small discussions often carried out in pairs. This course will enable students to improve their comprehension skills using authentic audio and video material and to acquire vocabulary to face situations in their real life in Paris. In-class work will be supplemented by multimedia activities and real-life situations in the City of Paris.