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French Language Acquisition: Beginners S

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 November 2015
End Date: Sunday, 20 December 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 22 November 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 December 2015

Description

This course is for those who have little or no previous knowledge of the French language. It provides students with a knowledge of basic grammatical structures and vocabulary, and an understanding of some everyday French social customs and non-verbal communication.

FREN120 is an introductory course for students who have little or no previous knowledge of French.  It is NOT for students who have done three or more years of French at school.

There is an important online component to this course, accessed via the university's "Learn" system (see "Course links" below).

Learning Outcomes

  • As a student in this course you will acquire skills in all four areas of the French language: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
    FREN120 provides a preliminary course to enable you to:
  • read French at a beginner's level;
  • speak and understand French at a beginner's level;
  • develop a sympathetic and informed understanding of the ways of thought and forms of expression of the French;
  • develop the personal skill of awareness of this foreign language;
  • acquire sufficient language skills in order to proceed to FREN122.

Restrictions

FREN121, FREN127, FREN104

Timetable Note

Please note that "activity block" means each of Lectures A, B, C, D, and Tutorials A and B.
You have to attend all of the above activities!

(Explanation: some courses have two or three repeats of the same activity, for example two or three of lectures A, B, C and D, or a number of tutorial A times to choose from; in these cases students only have to attend one of these repeat activities per week).

Course Coordinators

Eric Mouhica and Peter Low

Lecturer

Eric Mouhica

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Participation 6%
On-line quizzes in Learn (10) 30%
Mini tests (2) 16%
Assignments (2) 18%
Oral test 10%
Final test in class 20%

Textbooks / Resources

The required textbook is "Français Interactif" (University of Texas). It is available online, and we recommend that you download several chapters at a time. The website is www.laits.utexas.edu/fi
The companion website, full of clearly explained grammar points, is www.laits.utexas.edu/tex
FREN 120 will cover from the start up to Chapter 6 (inclusive).

Course links

LEARN The Course Outline is available for enrolled students on Learn.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $697.00

International fee $2,913.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 15 people apply to enrol.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 60

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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