RLFR 102
Introduction to French Language and Francophone Cultures Spring 2025
Division I D Difference, Power, and Equity
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This year-long course offers a complete introduction to the French language and is designed to help you become fully conversant in French by focusing on four fundamental language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Through daily practice, class activities, interactive discussion, listening exercises, written work, reading assignments, video-observations, and film-viewing, you will quickly gain confidence and increasing facility with your abilities to speak and understand both spoken and written French. In addition, our study of grammar, vocabulary, and communication skills will be organized around an engaging and dynamic introduction to a variety of French-speaking cultures around the world, from France and Belgium, to Québec and Martinique, to Sénégal and Morocco. Conducted in French.
The Class: Format: seminar; This class meets 5 times a week from M-F. Students are required to attend class from Monday to Friday.
Limit: 20
Expected: 18
Class#: 4024
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: active participation, daily homework including weekly short writing assignments, chapter tests, oral and written mid-semester and final exams
Prerequisites: RLFR 101, or by Placement Test, or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: Preference will go to first- and second-year students and those with compelling justification for admission. Statement of interest solicited if overenrolled.
Unit Notes: RLFR 101-102 is a year-long course. Credit is granted only if both semesters (RLFR 101 and 102) are taken. RLFR 101-102 students must also take the French Winter Study Course. This commitment to a year-long immersion in French is designed to help students become fully conversant in French by the end of the academic year.
Distributions: Division I Difference, Power, and Equity
DPE Notes: Through its focus on French and Francophone cultures around the world, this course enables students to gain both linguistic and cultural proficiency, and to engage with the great diversity of colonial and post-colonial cultures, histories, and identities in France and Belgium, Québec and Martinique, Sénégal and Morocco.

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