FRAN 304 Special Topics in French and Francophone Literature
For students with years of previous study in French as demonstrated by a placement protocol or with a passing grade in FRAN 202, FRAN 304 uses a content-based approach to investigate French and Francophone cultural practices, and perspectives through a representative selection of the literature of an author, movement, geographical region, or time period in the French or Francophone tradition. Using the course's content as the subject of academic inquiry, it also develops the four skills of communication in French (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), with a focus on real-time interpersonal and presentational oral production of cohesive paragraphs featuring narration and description in all tenses and on a variety of increasingly abstract and academic contexts, as well as on interpretive communication and argumentation through expository process writing. This course roughly targets the ACTFL Advanced-Mid rating. Teaching methodologies may include task-based, project-based, and other experiential learning assignments. Taught in French.
Prerequisite
FRAN 202, placement, or special instructor permission.