 Course
Code: 503.C1
Alter Ego 5: Units 5, 6
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: 503 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
- Forming the elite, the French grandes écoles, equal opportunity, gender inequality
- Building the EU, the mechanism of EU institutions, Europe and nationalism, multilingualism
Communication Skills
- Summarize the evolution of a notion
- Discuss a “French exception”
- Analyze the speech of a contemporary politician
- Compare different models of social integration
- Point out rhetorical devices
- Write a speech
- Interpret legislative postulations
- Understand the central notions of a social activist's approach
- Underline different perspectives
Assignments
- Write an administrative letter
- Write a dialogue in a play
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