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- How does one identify elements of ethnocentrism and recognize advantages of a multicultural perspective?
- How can one continue to grow in proficiency?
- What career and study opportunities exist and require proficiency in French?
- What are study abroad/exchange opportunities?
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- French literature
- Francophone cultures through literature, current events, cinema and art
- Grammatical structures:
- Future and conditional (present and past)
- Subjunctive mood (present, past and use of conjunctions)
- Past tenses (including pluperfect)
- Relative clauses
- Prepositions, present participle and infinitive clauses
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- Debate, discussions, presentations of famous artists or writers etc.
- Debate and hypothesize
- Discuss abstract ideas and people's interactions.
- Convince and persuade
- Categorize and synthesize information
- Use idioms and verbal pauses effectively
- Express feelings or attitudes about past actions and events
- Narrate past actions in sequence
- Describe simultaneous actions
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- Creative essays
- Thesis papers on the readings
- Research and PowrPoint oral presentations on writers and their affiliation to literary movements
- Preparation & participation in reading discussions
- Debates and sustaining good arguments
- In-class written tests and oral interviews on readings
- Grammar exams
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Readings:
- "Marius" Marcel Pagnol
- "L'existentialisme est un humanisme"Jean-Paul Sartre
- "L'homme qui plantait des arbres" Giono
- "Huis Clos" Jean-Paul Sartre
- "L'Hôte" Albert Camus
- "Les belles images" Simone de Beauvoir
- "Le passe-muraille" Marcel Aymé
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- Discuss abstract components of the target culture with a fluent speaker of French
- Examine how to read an authentic piece of writing (news paper or magazine articles as well as novels or philosophical essays from the eyes of a native speaker
- Be aware of differences in value systems and in turn be able to identify with someone else’s view point
- View news clips and read news articles from the Francophone world and compare and contrast then with the view point of American media
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