 Course
Code: 506.C1
Alter Ego 5: Units 11, 12
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: 506 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
- Medicine, scientific progress, genetic manipulations, bioethics
- Economic and social utopias, new alliances, happiness
Communication Skills
- Articulate and explain a reasoning/thought on the history of science
- Discuss ethics
- Take a position in a scientific controversy
- Question the ends of scientific and medical progress
- Explain and compare social projects
- Analyze economic theories and discuss their validity
- Discuss social and humanitarian actions
- Elaborate on the notion of happiness
Assignments
- Write work experience
- Write a story
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