Students are required to have a battery-operated tape recorder. This course is designed to improve students speaking ability as well as their listening comprehension and reading skills through an exploration of differences between French and American culture. Attention will be paid to registers of style and differences between spoken and written French and idiomatic usage. Students read current press, record interviews and report on their experiences. A battery-operated tape recorder is required.
Class meets four days a week for a total of six hours a week.
The documents will be studied for what they reveal of French ways of life and the emergence of new social groups. The representations of varied identities in the popular media highlight the competing values of a changing France. The course concludes with a consideration of the impact of these media in France. Class meets four days a week for a total of six hours a week. This course addresses the critical issues for France in the new European Union, and examines a spectrum of attitudes among French people towards European integration since 1950.