Emphasis is placed on oral communication through dialogue and guided compositions.
Audio and video tapes are extensively used. A continuation of FREN 101, this course allows students to strengthen their comprehension and speaking proficiency in French by providing extensive practice in oral and written communication and self-expression and through discussions and oral presentations of readings in French and Canadian culture. A review of the basic structures and phonetics of the French language studied through readings and discussions of French cultural and literary selections and enhanced through further oral communication practices, brief compositions, and oral reports. A continuation of FREN 203, this course is designed for more advanced students and allows them to strengthen their proficiency in French through advanced structural and oral exercises and several different kinds of writing assignments. The chief periods, authors, and works of French literature from the Serments de Strasbourg to 1700.