This course reinforces the student's listening, reading, and writing skills with emphasis on stimulating fluent and spontaneous use of spoken language. Class discussion and writing exercises center on journalistic and literary readings and videos about contemporary American life and issues. Instruction in phonetics as a guide to correct pronunciation is also given.
Class meets three days per week.
Laboratory meetings may also be required. FLS 101, 102. Students may enroll in this course to study a language that is not part of the regular curriculum of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Students who study a language in this program are strongly urged to follow up such study by participating in at least one semester of study abroad in a country where the language is spoken. Permission of department chair required.