 Course
Code: 501.C1
Alter Ego 5: Units 1, 2
Textbook, CDs, and online activities
Winter 2012
January 9–March 24
11 weeks / full course / 3 hours per week / $585
5½ weeks / accelerated course / 6 hours per week / $585
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Objectives: 501 Expert
Master the French language perfectly. Understand a range of texts and recognize linguistic subtleties in order to express yourself fluently and spontaneously. Learn to use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic, and professional purposes. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed texts on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors, and cohesive devices.
Socio-Cultural Themes
- New technologies and the digital revolution
- Family, education, life expectancy
Communication Skills
- Comment on a statistics chart
- Analyze a popular scientific text
- Reason philosophically
- Compare different media approaches to the same subject
- Study a scene from a classical play
- Make intercultural comparisons
- Critique the thesis of a book
- Analyze a provocative and controversial article
Assignments
- Summarize oral documents
- Make an oral presentation from written documents
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