Office:
University
Hall, Second Floor
Telephone:
(760)
750-4208
Faculty:
Veronica Anover, Ph.D.
Foreign Language Proficiency
Assessor:
Kevin
Igasaki, M.A.
Program Offered:
- French Minor
The French Minor provides a more intense development of skills and knowledge of the French language, and of French and Francophone cultures and literatures, giving the students an opportunity to follow a course of study that will be supplementary or complementary to their majors. The program seeks to contribute support to and articulate with other areas of study at the University. It aims to serve the needs of globalization while providing students with insights and understanding of the French and Francophone world at large.
The program is designed to develop advanced-high communicative proficiency in all four language skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Advanced grammar and composition courses will provide the level of proficiency mentioned above. The Business French course provides students with high language competency to negotiate meaning in a French business setting. At the same time, it offers students a better appreciation of the French business life and procedures.
Students choosing to pursue a French Minor will be introduced to the French and Francophone world and its cultural, economical, political and social issues of today through readings from the press, French TV news, movies and documentaries. The French Minor gives students a comprehensive understanding of the French and francophone culture, literature, and language developing at the same time a sense of awareness, understanding and analysis.
French Minor Requirements
To fulfill the French Minor, students must complete the following curriculum, at minimum (15) units. Students may apply up to six (6) units of transfer credit toward the minor. Students must earn a grade of a C or higher in each course for the minor.
Units
- Lower-division
(6-12)
Proficiency through
FREN 1020-6
FREN 201 or equivalent3
FREN 202 or equivalent3
‑To determine equivalent, consult with French Program advisor. Students must successfully pass the French Challenge Exam to be granted equivalency on the desired courses. Upper-division courses cannot be challenged.
- Upper-division
(6)
FREN 3113
FREN 3123
- French
Electives3
(3 units of one of the following upper-division French courses and/or 3 units
of one upper-division Literature and Writing course):
FREN 314FREN 380
FREN 315FREN 395
FREN 350LTWR 410
Total
Units15-21