Intermediate French I
Overview
In this course, students upgrade their language skills for purposes of: 1) participating in day to day personal, social and professional situations, 2) improving their employment opportunities, 3) participating in intercultural and/or international community activities, 4) preparing for further education or training.
Students will develop intermediate listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through the study of vocabulary, grammar and culture.
French is spoken in class as much as possible.
- Intermediate-level sentence structures
- Intermediate-level vocabulary
- Pronunciation system of French
- Cultural aspects of the Francophone world
The functional and communicative approach is used.
In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities such as:
- lecture material presented by the instructor, in person or online synchronously or asynchronously;
- task-based practice in pairs and small groups, in class and in lab, presented in person, or online synchronously, or asynchronously with instructor facilitation;
- listening comprehension;
- audio-visual activities;
- online computer assisted learning.
Instructor feedback and revision of submitted work is provided.
Assessment will be based on course objectives and will be carried out in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation in a course as part of the student’s graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation must be clearly defined in the Instructor Course Outline. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course. This is a graded course.
Example evaluation scheme:
|
Written Evaluations |
50% |
|
Oral Evaluations |
50% |
|
Total |
100% |
No single evaluation will be worth more than 20%.
Evaluations may be done in person and/or online.
Nota Bene: This course includes testing worth more than 10 % during the last 14 days of classes. A standing variance to the Douglas College Evaluation Policy was granted by Education Council on April 24, 2017.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of intermediate-level spoken discourse;
- Demonstrate understanding of intermediate-level written texts;
- Construct speech: express feelings and reactions and narrate in the past;
- Construct written expression: write guided composition;
- Articulate an understanding of target cultures;
- Formulate sentences with various tenses;
- Apply use of the target language in professional contexts;
- Apply intercultural competency skills.
Textbooks and materials are to be purchased by students. A list of required textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of the semester.
Example texts may include:
- Terrell, et al. Deux Mondes: A Communicative Approach. McGraw Hill (current edition).
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for MODL 2201 |
|---|---|
| Camosun College (CAMO) | CAMO HUM 1XX (3) |
| Capilano University (CAPU) | CAPU FREN 120 (4) |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU FREN 2200 (3) |
| Langara College (LANG) | LANG FREN 1117 (3) |
| Okanagan College (OC) | OC FREN 105 (3) |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU FREN 1XX (3) |
| Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU FRAN 2110 (3) |
| Trinity Western University (TWU) | TWU FREN 111 (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | UBCO FREN_O 103 (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | UBCV FREN_V 201 (3) |
| University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC INTS 271 (3) |
| University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV FREN 2XX (3) |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC FRAN 1XX (1.5) |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | DOUG MODL 2201 (3) & DOUG MODL 2202 (3) = UVIC FRAN 120 (3) |
| Vancouver Island University (VIU) | VIU FRCH 1st (3) |