Notes regarding credits...

Fall 3 = 33 hours of instruction
Win 2A = 36 hours of instruction
Fall 4/Win 2B/Yr 2 = 45 hours of instruction

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

High Beginning

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of one semester (or two 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

Objectives:
-Discover the biggest religious holidays in France (All Saints Day, Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, Assumption)
-Learn the vocabulary used in the religious system in France
-Familiarize oneself with this vocabulary
-Discover the religious iconography
-Reflect on the place of catholocism in today's France
-Reflect on the place of other religions practiced in France (protestant, orthodox, muslim, jewish, buddist)
-The place of laypersons in France

Program:
-This course consists of seven objectives, touching on works of art, adapted texts, meetings with various parishes, and church visits (optional).

Grading is based on 3 grades:
-2 exams
-1 participation grade

(Note that the level "high beginning" on ISA's website is equivalent to "elementary" at the Catholic University of Paris)