The professor will propose a variety of exercises involving passive and active skills to manipulate written French. This course will also examine how one structures and organizes an argument in a proper fashion. Moreover, to work on spoken French, attention is paid to developing a strong vocabulary, improving pronunciation, and learning idiomatic expressions. This course which meets twice a week for two hours at a time is designed to help students improve their speaking skills. Weekly exercises focusing on vocabulary, oral production, and oral comprehension constitute the class.
Individual attention given to students offers the opportunity for rapid progress.
The objective of this course is to offer students the tools to obtain oral proficiency. This course focuses on the unique architecture and urban planning of Paris, and the customs of Parisians who live and work in the city. The aim is to study the city as a historical and contemporary phenomenon. I to the grands travaux of the Fifth Republic during the 1960s-90s. Special attention is given to the contribution of these features toward the formation of the city landscape, to their response to political, social, and economic conditions, and to the quality of urban life.