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Course Criteria
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10.00 Credits
An intensive, ten hour per week intermediate French course designed for first year students who place into 104 on the departmental placement examination and who wish to complete the language requirement in one semester. Especially helpful for those contemplating study abroad, this course makes extensive use of multi-media and interactive computer strategies in the development of conversational and cultural skills. Two Courses. Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive introduction to conversation and composition, with special attention to grammar review and refinement. Essays, fiction and theater, as well as Italian television and films, provide opportunities to improve familiarity with contemporary Italian language and civilization. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive language and civilization course designed to increase oral proficiency, improve written expression, and develop cross-cultural observation skills through immersion in the Toulouse region. Social and cultural phenomena will be studied through interaction with French families, directed observation at historic sites, participation in class activities and tutorials. The exclusive use of French during the five and one-half week immersion is expected of all students. Evaluation is based on a combination of the following: interviews with the instructor, performance in the class, journal writing, and a final summary of the immersion experience. Prerequisite: 116 or its equivalent and acceptance into the French Summer Immersion Program. Not intended for students who have completed French 236 or above. Offered only in summer at the Dickinson Study Center in Toulouse.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of Italian which includes grammar review, reading comprehension, and oral expression in the context of daily Italian civilization. Individual attention to structure, vocabulary, and idiomatic usage. Offered only at the K. Robert Nilsson Center for European Studies in Bologna. Because of the similarity in content, credit will not be given for both 225 and 220 (the immersion course). Prerequisite: 116 and permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive oral and written practice of French in the context of issues and themes such as a sense of place, the lessons of time, the social contract, and intellectual and artistic life. This course makes use of texts, films, multi media and interactive computer strategies in the development of conversational and writing skills. Intended as the gateway to the major or minor in French and Francophone Studies. NOTE: This is a Writing Intensive Course. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to increase student's awareness of various rhetorical conventions and command of written Italian through analysis and imitation of model texts of a literary and non-literary nature. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to increase student's comprehension and command of spoken Italian, this course is also an initiation in everyday verbal transactions and cultural communication prevalent in contemporary Italy. Phonetics, oral comprehension, and verbal production are practiced through exposure to authentic documents usually of a non-literary nature, such as television news programs, documentaries, commercial advertisements, and excerpts from films. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the practice of reading and writing about French and francophone themes in an analytical and contextualized way. This course considers how cultural production conveys ideologies, values and norms expressed in both historical and contemporary contexts. Normally offered as writing-intensive. Prerequisite: 230.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the representation of French identity from its origins in the Ancien Régime to its present forms. Examples are drawn from history and human geography, politics, economics, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. Depending on the instructor, these may include, for example, the representation of the State, the tension between Paris and the provinces, the semiotics of social rituals, and other subjects of cultural study. Prerequisite: 236 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to give students an understanding of the main tensions and controversies of contemporary French culture. Focusing on political, social, and economic topics such as Americanization, regionalism, immigration, France's place in the European Union, the course should facilitate acculturation in France or provide an academic substitute for that experience. Prerequisite: 236.
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