ACCELERATED ELEMENTARY FRENCH AND CULTURE (FR1500)

This intensive course combines French and Culture I and French and Culture II and provides an accelerated introduction to elementary French. The course emphasizes interpersonal communication and the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills through interactive activities and authentic materials. Culture is used as a key approach to learning the language. Through films, songs, photographs, paintings, graphic narratives, and other short texts, students explore aspects of Parisian and Francophone life while practicing French in meaningful contexts. Students learn to communicate about everyday topics by speaking and writing in the past, present, and future. They practice describing people and places, talking about themselves, their studies, and their surroundings, asking and answering basic questions, making comparisons, expressing preferences, and showing agreement or disagreement.