Faculty Syllabus

Classroom Contact Hours per week: 4

Laboratory Contact Hours per week: 0

Continuation of FREN 1411 with more advanced conversation, basic writing, listening and reading comprehension, vocabulary building, grammar, and culture. Prerequisites: Students must have completed a first semester college French course of at least four semester hours with a grade of C or better, or have equivalent credit by examination, to enroll in FREN 1412. 

Horizons 7e (Manley, Smith, McMinn-Reyna, Prévost, Cengage publishing company)

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General Education Student Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate competence in:

• Critical Thinking: Gather, analyze, synthesize, evaluate and apply information for the purposes of innovation, inquiry, and creative thinking.
• Teamwork: Consider different points of view to work collaboratively and effectively in pursuit of a shared purpose or goal.
• Social Responsibility: Analyze differences and commonalities among peoples, ideas, aesthetic traditions, and cultural practices to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities
• Personal Responsibility: Identify and apply ethical principles and practices to decision-making by connecting choices, actions and consequences
• Communication Skills: Develop, interpret, and express ideas and information through written, oral and visual communication that is adapted to purpose, structure, audience, and medium.

Course Objectives

The main objective of this course is to develop competencies that align with the general education goals of critical thinking, interpersonal skills, civic and cultural awareness, personal responsibility, and written, oral and visual communication, in the French language, at an appropriate level. The ability to understand and communicate and comprehend French will develop along with the knowledge of the vocabulary, grammatical structures of the language, and exploration of how culture shapes communication. Two to three hours a day should be dedicated for the study of French (at least two hours outside of class for each hour in class).

At the end of French 1412, students should be able to do the following:

CRITICAL THINKING:

• compare and contrast lifestyles and attitudes in French society with their own
• paraphrase by thinking of alternate ways of expressing meaning.
• plan and predict what might be said in written and listening passages.
• utilize language creatively to talk about familiar topics

TEAMWORK (Interpersonal Skills):

• converse with partners about topics related to them.
• help one another with areas of difficulty.
• brainstorm in groups to organize tasks.
• share resources related to common interests.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (Civic and Cultural Awareness):

• discuss the importance of cultural identity in different French-speaking regions.
• compare French values related to daily life such as leisure activities, relationships, and eating habits to those in their own society.
• demonstrate awareness of current events in French-speaking regions.
• discuss implications of changes in French society and compare them to changes in their own society.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY:

• show time management skills by successfully completing tasks on time.
• acquire effective study habits for language learning.
• name a variety of resources outside of class to practice French.
• discuss aspects of French language and culture of personal interest.
• state how learning French will be useful to them and improve their lives.
• make appropriate decisions when interacting with people from different French-speaking regions.

COMMUNICATION (Written, Oral and Visual Communication):

• communicate effectively in common situations such as when shopping for clothes, ordering in restaurants, or buying groceries.
• talk about topics such as daily routine, leisure activities, relationships, in the present, the past, and the near future.
• recount stories in the past.
• make conditional statements and hypothesize.
• utilize visuals and context to express or understand meaning.
• utilize organizing techniques and logical sequencing when writing.
• utilize visuals to infer or show cultural differences.

Discipline-Level Learning Outcomes for French

At the end of the fourth semester of French, students should be able to:

CRITICAL THINKING:

• utilize a variety of reading or listening strategies for comprehension.
• draw inferences from information that has been presented.
• synopsize and synthesize the information from passages heard or read.
• utilize language creatively to make it relevant their lives.
• make comparisons and find contrasts among the different Francophone cultures and their own and explain different values.
• mention implications and applications of information they have read or heard.

TEAMWORK (Interpersonal Skills):

• complete a variety of language-based activities working in pairs and small groups.
• demonstrate the ability to negotiate meaning to complete language-based activities.
• demonstrate the ability to work in groups to achieve a common goal.
• demonstrate the ability to consider different points of view and work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (Civic and Cultural Awareness):

• compare and contrast different perspectives on cultural issues, customs, and traditions after reading or listening to passages in the French language.
• demonstrate some intercultural competence by correctly using formal and informal speech, changing registers as needed, and using gestures.
• mention some differences among the French-speaking countries.
• show awareness of current events in French-speaking regions and analyze their implications.
• state ways that studying French-speaking societies can help understand and improve their own society.
• explain the importance of knowledge of French culture for relationships between individuals, businesses, or nations.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY:

• acquire effective language learning strategies for life-long learning.
• state how learning French will be useful to them and improve their lives.
• name and investigate aspects of French language and culture of personal interest.
• explain the value of learning about other people and respecting  cultural differences.
• make appropriate decisions when interacting with people from different cultures.

COMMUNICATION (Written, Oral and Visual Communication):

• show effective written and spoken communication in French at the appropriate level using a variety of strategies and adopting the appropriate type of speech. 
• use listening strategies such as listening for the main idea and for specific details and asking for clarification.
• exhibit conceptual understanding and control of courtesy expressions and appropriate kinesics when speaking in French
• interpret and express ideas through written, oral and visual communication