MINOR IN FRENCH
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
I. Lower-division (6-12)
Proficiency through
FREN 102 0-6
units
FREN 201 or equivalent 3 units
FREN 202 or equivalent 3 units
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.
II. Upper-division (6)
units
FREN 311 3
units
FREN 312 3
units
III. French Electives 3
units
(3 units of one of the
following upper-division French courses and/or 3 units of one upper-division
Literature and witing course):
FREN314 FREN 315
FREN 350 FREN 380
FREN 395 LTWR 410
Total Units 15-21 units