Spring 2027

Second Semester French

Second Semester French covers oral practice, conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary, and Francophone cultures.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Hugo Torres

The course is not easy but fair, expecting students to put in work while ensuring that effort is rewarding through original lesson plans.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Communicate orally and in writing to share ideas, ask questions, and answer questions about personal identity, daily life, and likes and dislikes.

  • Explain the main idea and some details of texts in French including short articles, surveys, interviews, and video texts related to personal identity, daily life, and likes and dislikes.

  • Compose brief informal written texts in French (both formal and informal).

  • Describe and narrate ideas in French.

  • Use lexico-grammatical structures in French for communicating in the present about information relevant to course topics listed above.

  • Interpret cultural products, practices, and perspectives related to course topics listed above.

  • Reflect on differences between one's own culture and the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of the French-speaking world.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

Course map

FRENCH 101 or placement into FRENCH 102

FRENCH 102 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CARA TORRES is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CHARLES KILIAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

FELY CATAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Spring 2014. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HUGO TORRES is recorded teaching in Fall 2011, Spring 2012. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KRISTINA BETH KOSNICK is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MAGGIE HUGHES is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SARAH FORZLEY is recorded teaching in Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 260
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 260
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 260
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 260
LEC 005Classroom Instruction0 / 260

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Hugo Torres

Hugo Torres used movies, songs, and articles to make French relevant to daily life, creating an engaging and fun learning environment.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.37 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 91.4% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.70 GPA, 88.6% A/AB (n=88 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Hugo Torres

The course is not easy but fair, expecting students to put in work while ensuring that effort is rewarding through original lesson plans.

Past student reviews · Sarah Forzley

Students noted that Sarah Forzley expected participation, requiring them to overcome fears of public speaking, but she provided supportive office hours.

Topics

  • French language fundamentals: oral practice, grammar, reading, and vocabulary
  • French and Francophone cultures
  • Describing and narrating ideas in French

Skills

  • Oral and written communication in French for personal topics
  • Reading comprehension of short French texts and media
  • Application of French lexico-grammatical structures
  • Interpretation of French-speaking world cultural products

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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Approximate 80% prediction interval

About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.11 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
FRENCH 102 · Spring 2027

Second Semester French

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Student reviews

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Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
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Full model traces

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Model & dataset provenance 
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