Course Description
Course Name
French Language: C1 (Superior)
Session: VPRF1325
Hours & Credits
126 Contact Hours
Prerequisites & Language Level
Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.
Superior
- Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college level courses at their home university in the U.S.
Overview
OBJECTIVES PART 1:
-Communication:
Think while arguing on facts and ideas
-Linguistic:
The reason, consequence, purpose
Comparison, opposition and conceding
Condition and hypothesis
Deepening of the use of conjunctions of subordination and coordination, prepositions and adverbs.
-Vocabulary:
Nominalization and verbalization
OBJECTIVES PART 2:
-Communication:
Organize the order of saying things and enhance
-Linguistics:
The presentatives
The decisive
The voices: active, passive and reflexive.
-Vocabulary:
Themes of specialty:
The History (according to current events)
Geopolitics, economics, evolution of minds
OBJECTIVES PART 3:
-Communication:
To analyze different types of speech (descriptive, narrative, argumentative ?)
-Linguistics:
Structures of a sentence
Structures of a paragraph
Structures of a text
-Vocabulary:
Levels of language
Sensitization to written and oral styles
*Course content subject to change