Course Code: 502.C1
Alter Ego 5: Units 3, 4
Textbook, CDs, and online activities

Eligibility
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Objectives
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.

Curriculum

Communication Skills

• Analyze the testimony of a militant
• Understand the allusions and the implicit meanings of a text
• Demonstrate how the argument of a social issue unfolds
• Write a sales/marketing pitch
• Discuss socio-economic issues
• Summarize the ethnological reasoning of a writer
• Summarize a sociological inquiry
• Make trans-historical and intercultural comparisons
• Emphasize a specific theme: two conflicting points of view; two dissimilar but converging viewpoints

Socio-Cultural Themes

• The working class, social struggles, social climbing, workforce
• Opening borders, globalization, multiculturalism

Assignments

• Summarize a text
• Make an argument, orally