FREN121-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015

French Language Acquisition: Beginners A

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2015

Description

This is an introductory course for students who have no previous knowledge of French. It is the first course in a sequence of six French language acquisition courses offered by the Programme.

FREN121 is for outright beginners or for people who have done only a minimal amount of French at school (Year 9 or 10). It is NOT for students who have done three or more years of French at school.

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.
    FREN121 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

FREN104, FREN127, FREN120

Course Coordinator

Peter Low

Lecturer

Eric Mouhica

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 121 will cover from the start up to Chapter 6 (inclusive).
FREN 122 will continue in the second semester, starting with Chapter 7.

Course links

Library portal
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.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All FREN121 Occurrences

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