 Course
Code: 504.C1
Alter Ego 5: Units 7, 8
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: 504 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
- The Enlightenment, Francophone countries, new economic partners, new hegemonies
- The origins of ecology, sustainable development, global warming, sustainable architecture, the detrimental effect of ecology
Communication Skills
- Summarize a historian's thesis
- Understand and synopsize an academic conference
- Analyze a diplomatic speech
- Understand three ways of discussing a project
- Develop a hypothetical reasoning
- Reorganize data
- Define intellectual movements
- Analyze an editorial
- Study the provocative aspects of a text
- Defend an urban project
Assignments
- Write an essay
- Synthesize written documents
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