FR 303 - Conversation

This course is designed to improve oral and cultural fluency. It focuses on improving the students’ listening and general comprehension skills as well as enhancing the precision, sophistication, and pronunciation of their spoken French while building their cultural knowledge of France. This course gradually challenges students to exchange ideas and personal views with others about current events and socially important topics. Students will practice deriving useful information about these topics from video and audio/radio recordings, films, and printed texts. The course requires three contact hours with the professor and one contact hour of conversation with a Native Speaker each week. Conducted in French.

Note: This course meets the Core Outcomes for Linguistic Awareness: Modern Foreign Language.

Four credits.

Prerequisite(s): FR 200 or above.