Spring 2027

Accelerated Intermediate French

Accelerated intermediate French developing speaking and writing skills through topics like social media, food cultures, and globalization within the French-speaking world.

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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Communicate orally and in writing to share ideas, ask questions, and answer questions about friendship, social media, scientific innovations, food cultures around the world, globalization, immigration, and language advocacy.

  • Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and many details of journalistic articles, surveys, interviews, feature-length films, works of literature and other written, multimodal, and video texts in French about course topics.

  • Compose brief informal written texts in French about course topics listed above and formally in three writing projects (film review, editorial, public service announcement).

  • Present ideas persuasively in French about course topics listed above in a group presentation and a short digital recording.

  • Demonstrate understanding of lexico-grammatical structures in French for communicating in the past, present, and future about course topics listed above.

  • Demonstrate understanding of 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.

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Prerequisites

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FRENCH 102 or 105(or FRENCH 201 prior to Summer 2025) or placement into FRENCH 203. Not open to students with credit forFRENCH 204.

FRENCH 205 used by

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Student experience

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Develops communicative skills in relation to interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational speaking and writing and their understanding of the French-speaking world. Course topics include friendship and social media, scientific innovations, food cultures around the world, globalization, immigration, and language advocacy.

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Topics

  • Friendship, social media, scientific innovations, food cultures, globalization, immigration, and language advocacy.
  • Cultural products, practices, and perspectives of the French-speaking world.

Skills

  • Interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational speaking and writing in French.
  • Comprehension of journalistic articles, surveys, interviews, films, and literature in French.
  • Use of French lexico-grammatical structures for past, present, and future communication.

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FRENCH 205 · Spring 2027

Accelerated Intermediate French

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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