Department Objectives
An introduction to French as a spoken and written language. The work includes regular practice in class and scheduled drill-sessions in understanding and using the spoken language. Written exercises and elementary reading materials serve for vocabulary building and discussion.
French Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate French-language competencies in speaking, reading and writing about a wide range of cultural, literary and linguistic topics and in a wide range of registers, from day-to-day to academic;
- Recognize principal questions and issues that have shaped Francophone cultures and societies through time and be able to think critically about them;
- Build shared vocabulary for analyzing and interpreting genres and media of cultural production
- Understand Francophone cultures in broader political, geographic, historical and diasporic contexts
- Demonstrate competency in French-language culture and a complementary discipline (e.g., history, art history): speaking, reading and writing about a wide range of cultural, and linguistic topics
- Recognize principal questions and issues that have shaped one or more Francophone cultures, informed by the perspectives of a complementary field or discipline; think critically about this conjunction
- Build shared vocabulary for analyzing and interpreting genres and media of cultural production
Italian Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate Italian-language competencies in speaking, reading and writing about a wide range of cultural, literary and linguistic topics and in a wide range of registers, from day-to-day to academic;
- Recognize principal questions and issues that have shaped Italophone cultures and societies through time and be able to think critically about them;
- Build shared vocabulary for analyzing and interpreting genres and media of cultural production
- Understand Italophone cultures in broader political, geographic, historical and diasporic contexts
- Demonstrate competency in Italian-language culture and a complementary discipline (e.g., history, art history): speaking, reading and writing about a wide range of cultural, and linguistic topics
- Recognize principal questions and issues that have shaped one or more Italophone cultures, informed by the perspectives of a complementary field or discipline; think critically about this conjunction
- Build shared vocabulary for analyzing and interpreting genres and media of cultural production