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+ New in Winter 2012

 
FIAF Language Center
22 East 60th Street
3rd floor
646 388 6612
languagecenter@fiaf.org

Adults
General French
505 Expert Level C1

Course Code: 505.C1
Alter Ego 5: Units 9, 10
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

Placement Test
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Objectives: 505 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

  • Virtual worlds, role playing games, simulation games on the internet, social networks
  • Art history, the functions of art, new methods of artistic production, art education

Communication Skills

  • Analyze a literary narrative
  • Explain a psychic process
  • Understand and articulate economic and psychological implications of a social phenomenon
  • Understand and rephrase technical explanations
  • Present and discuss the different functions of art
  • Analyze a descriptive literary text
  • Rephrase a creator's thought
  • Discuss the functions of literature
  • Discuss education

Assignments

  • Write a press review
  • Critique a show

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