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
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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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