French Language Acquisition: Advanced B

Learning Outcomes

• At the end of this course students will have developed good competence in French language:
  
  
•  The ability to understand a wide range of sentence structures;
  
•  A firm understanding of advanced level prose;
  
•  An understanding of sociolinguistic registers;
  
•  Familiarity with journalistic prose, formal, and informal use of language;
  
•  Developed critical thinking via close-readings, argumentative presentations, and classroom discussions;
  
•  The ability to compose prose using a variety of sentence structures, idiomatic expressions and link words;
  
•  Have acquired versatile skills associated with the level B2 of the Common European Frame of Reference for the French language.
  
•  A heightened linguistic sensitivity facilitating the acquisition of other non-English languages
  
  In addition, they will have acquired:
  
  
• An enhanced intercultural understanding of French and francophone civilisation both within Europe and globally (through history and in relation to current events);
  
• A more general sensitivity to cultural diversity in a global context, as well as the politics of language and biculturality (for example, in relation to minority languages and cultures in France, and in relation to Aotearoa).

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

	Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
	Employable, innovative and enterprising Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
	Biculturally competent and confident Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
	Globally aware Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .