FR 112 - Intermediate French

Credit Hours: 3.5

A continuation of FR 110-111. The aim of this course is to improve the student’s fluency in audio-lingual skills with special emphasis on the understanding of the grammatical structure of French through selected contemporary French texts.

Fulfills SUNY General Education – Foreign Language.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will:

comprehend and utilize fundamental vocabulary in speech, reading and writing;
utilize more advanced grammatical structures of the language;
understand, read and write basic to intermediate French;
converse in the language on a basic to intermediate level;
speculate about the future, relate sentences in more complex fashion, and write brief, coherent, and correct paragraphs on simple topics;
recognize the cultural diversity of the people who speak the language; and
be able to use appropriate greetings and farewells, ask simple questions about daily matters, and respond correctly (both orally and in writing) to questions about one’s own life and opinions, as well as those of others.

Prerequisites: FR 110, FR 111
Cycles (N)

The course is intended for three types of students: those who passed the third year high school NY Regents; those who passed FR 111; or those with an equivalency of study in the language.