Class is held two hours a day, five days a week. Instruction is under the supervision of specialist professors, consisting of a combination of language lab work, drills, grammar, vocabulary, conversation and dictation. The workload is such that students electing it should try not to take other courses for credit. Although designed for beginners, it is intensive and demanding. Students with some prior knowledge of French may enroll.
Stress is on formal grammar.
Some examples of varying French styles may be used to improve awareness of idiom. Class is held two hours a day, five days a week. Language laboratory work is required. Classes begin after placement in a cours pratique. Each class level meets 10 hours total.