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FRE 112
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Title: | French Language II |
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Course Description: | Expands students’ interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communicative abilities in the language across the disciplines. Integrates these skills with the study of the cultures in which the language is used. Offers a foundation in the analysis of culture and develops intercultural communicative strategies. |
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Min Credit: | 5 |
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Course Notes: | Note: Competencies and Outline entered from Core Transfer |
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| C: Documents. A new course template exists and will be |
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| C: submitted for review. |
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Origin Notes: | ACC |
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Course Notes: | revised dscrptn, cmptncs, outln 11/14/11 LK |
STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Interpret authentic texts of various types across disciplines and communities to identify main ideas, key words and supporting details and make comparisons between target and native cultures.
2. Engage in conversation to exchange information and discuss ideas and opinions concerning familiar and interdisciplinary topics as well as contemporary issues.
3. Present ideas and information orally and in writing on cultural, interdisciplinary and contemporary topics, acquired from interaction and research.
4. Develop understanding of the concept of culture as well as its dynamic and heterogeneous nature through comparison and analysis of the native and target cultures.
5. Recognize and evaluate cultural stereotypes and generalizations by analyzing them in relationship to evidence and social interaction.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Interpretive Communication Topics
a. Narration
b. Advanced Description
c. Academic and Professional Topics
II. Interpretive Communication Strategies
a. Activate background knowledge
b. Recognize cognates
c. Take notes
d. Predict content
e. Skim and scan
f. Recognize visual cues and tone
g. Recognize word families and deduce meanings from base words
h. Identify markers of coherence
i. Clarify meaning by asking questions
j. Collaborate to negotiate meaning
k. Apply self-monitoring techniques (verification of predictions, noting difficulty . . .)
l. Identify genre and typical patterns and linguistic formulas
III. Interpersonal Communication Topics
a. Asking questions
b. Formal and informal modes of address
c. Daily routines and schedules
d. Comparisons of people and things
e. Description
f. Express likes, dislikes and emotions
g. Discuss life events
h. Give directions, instructions and advice
i. Make and respond to invitations
IV. Interpersonal Communication Strategies
a. Initiate, maintain and close conversation
b. Differentiate between formal versus informal situations
c. Negotiate meaning by paraphrasing, circumlocution and self-correcting
d. Elicit and clarify information by asking questions
e. React to other’s ideas
f. Ask for clarification
g. Goal-setting
h. Self-assessment
V. Presentational Communication Topics
a. Art and artists
b. Work and leisure
c. Experiences
VI. Presentational Communication Strategies
a. Audience and purpose
b. Brainstorming, diagramming, outlining
c. Summarizing
d. Comparing
e. Using examples
f. Including relevant details
g. Agreement accuracy
h. Using linking words
i. Sequencing ideas and sentences
j. Imitating model sentences
VII. Intercultural Communication Topics
a. Concept of culture: products, practices and perspectives
b. Cultural lens and reflection on native culture
c. Stereotypes and generalizations
d. Developmental stages of intercultural sensitivity
VIII. Intercultural Communication Strategies
a. Explore resources:
i. Get to know your community
ii. Internet and library resources
iii. Native speakers
iv. Academic, career and interdisciplinary interests
b. Evaluate sources
c. Analyze and reconstruct cultural perspectives through research
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