Topics in Language and Culture

Catalog description

This course improves proficiency in written and oral expression by focusing on topics in French language and culture. Students develop advanced writing and speaking skills while concentrating on grammar, style, and appropriateness. Frequent compositions or other homework , based primarily on the genres or topics studied, allow students to identify and correct grammatical mistakes. Students present research in class in French. Films and various cultural artifacts (proverbs, songs, historical materials) familiarize students with idiomatic French.