Further development of all the skills essential for communication. Further development of understanding written and spoken French. Practice in translation and practice in writing accentuated. This course fulfills three credits of the Unity and Diversity core requirement in the Multicultural Perspectives area of the University Studies Program.
Language is the very key to human understanding, a passport to the human soul.
Demonstrate knowledge of diverse patterns and similarities of thought, values, and beliefs as manifest in different cultures. This course increases the students' knowledge of vocabulary and figures of speech in French and exposes the student to literary texts that introduce topics on the French way of life, French history and French art. It also introduces the students to texts written in French but from different cultures such as African, North African, Canadian and Caribbean countries where French is the first and the second language spoken and written. A comparative approach is used through exercises in translation and exercises in text analysis for each chapter in the textbooks. Understand the extent to which cultural differences influences the interpretation and expression of events, ideas, and experiences.