Course Description
Course Name
Intensive French Language: C1 (Superior)
Session: VPRU1225
Hours & Credits
60 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:
Reasoning arguing on facts or ideas
-Linquistic:
Reason, consequence and purpose
Comparison, opposition and concession.
Condition and hypothesis
Deepening of the use of subordinations and conjunctions, prepositions and adverbs
-Vocabulary:
Themes of majors:
History (according to current events)
Geopolitics, economics, the evolution habits and minds
OBJECTIVES PART 2:
-Communication:
Organizing the order of enunciation and emphasizing
-Linguistics:
Presentative
Active, Passive and Reflexive voices)
-Vocabulary:
Nominalization and verbalization
OBJECTIVES PART 3:
-Communication:
Analyzing different types of speech (descriptive, narrative, argumentative)
-Linguistics:
Structures of a sentence
Structures of a paragraph
Structures of a text
-Vocabulary:
Style of language
Sensitizing to written and oral styles
*Course content subject to change