Notes regarding credits...

Offered at 6 or 9 weekly hours.

Fall 3 = 11 weeks of instruction
Win 2A = 12 weeks of instruction
Fall 4/Win 2B/Yr 2 = 15 weeks of instruction

To determine total contact hours, multiply the weekly hours by the number of weeks of instruction.

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of three semesters (or five quarters) of college-level French. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Please use the following only as a guideline to determine what each student's language level may be. Each semester/quarter is of COLLEGE-LEVEL French or the equivalent of:

0-3 Semesters/0-5 Quarters = Beginning level
4-5 Semesters/6-8 Quarters = Intermediate
6-7 Semesters/9-11 Quarters = High Intermediate
8-9 Semesters/12-14 Quarters = Advanced
Fluent/Native Speaker = Superior

Each section is composed of 3 to 4 macro-objectives that need to be acquired in a minimum of 90 teaching hours (which correspond to 6 hours X 15 weeks). These 90 hours are the minimum teaching amount.

OBJECTIVES PART 1:

-Communication:
Characterize and foreground
Criticize

-Linquistic:
Compound relative pronouns with simple prepositions (ex: which at, who, which on…)
Demonstratives and relatives
The one who, that of, it's … who, it's… that
It's + preposition…. That
Completives after verbs of opinion: indicative and subjunctive
Reminder of temporal system: the length, precedence, simultaneity, posterity

-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of positive and negative characterization (ex: adjectives: extraordinary, marvelous…)
The figurative sense of colors, symbols, metonymy (ex: to have a drink)
The vocabulary of critics (adjective – verb- adverb)

OBJECTIVES PART 2:

-Communication:
Compare social behaviors, ideas and tastes

-Linguistics:
Indefinite: each, all, some, nobody…
Comparatives and superlatives:
More …than, as much as, like
The position of the adjective

-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of ads and touristic leaflets (ex: laudatory vocabulary…)

OBJECTIVES PART 3:

-Communication:
Introduce and defend a point of view

-Linguistics:
The reason: gerundive
Consequence: if, so much, so much that
Purpose: in order to, so as to
Opposition, conceding and restriction
Whereas/ although/ in spite of/ yet

-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of social life