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FRENCH 1 Elementary French 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2019
Introduction to speaking, listening, reading, and writing in French.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH R1A English Composition in Connection with the Reading of Literature 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
This course is designed to fulfill the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement. The primary goal of this course is to develop students' reading and writing skills through a series of assignments that will provide them with the opportunity to formulate observations made in class discussions into coherent argumentative essays. Emphasis will be placed on the refinement of effective sentence, paragraph, and thesis formation, keeping in mind the notion of writing as a process. Other goals in this course are a familiarization with French literature and the specific questions that are relevant to this field. In addition, students will be introduced to different methods of literary and linguistic analysis in their nonliterary readings.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH R1B English Composition in Connection with the Reading of Literature 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2019
This course is designed to fulfill the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. The primary goal of this course is to develop students' reading and writing skills through a series of assignments that will provide them with the opportunity to formulate observations made in class discussions into coherent argumentative essays. Emphasis will be placed on the refinement of effective sentence, paragraph, and thesis formation, keeping in mind the notion of writing as a process. Other goals in this course are a familiarization with French literature and the specific questions that are relevant to this field. In addition, students will be introduced to different methods of literary and linguistic analysis in their nonliterary readings.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH 2 Elementary French 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2019
Introduction to speaking, listening, reading, and writing in French. Continuation of French 1.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 1 or equivalent

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH 3 Intermediate French 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2019
Building on foundation established in first year, trains students in listening, reading, writing, and speaking French. Review and refinement of grammar.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 2 or equivalent

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH 4 Advanced Intermediate French 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2019
Advanced training in listening, reading, writing, and speaking French. Review and refinement of grammar.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 3 or equivalent

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH 13 Intermediate Conversation 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Intermediate French conversation. May not be repeated for credit.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 2 or consent of Director of Lower Division

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH N13 Intermediate Conversation 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2005 10 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session
Intermediate French conversation.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 2 or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH 14 Advanced Conversation 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Advanced French conversation. This course may not be repeated for credit.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 3 or 13 or equivalent

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH N14 Advanced Conversation 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2005 10 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session
Advanced French conversation.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to freshmen.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

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FRENCH 35 Practical Phonetics and Listening Comprehension 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This multimedia course concentrates on pronunciation and listening comprehension skills and provides a new understanding of the French language. International phonetic alphabet and theoretical concepts are taught as necessary. Strongly recommended before study, work, or travel in French-speaking countries, particularly for Education Abroad Program students.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 3

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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FRENCH 40 French Novels (in Translation) in Historical Context 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019
introduction to a set of novels originally written in French but read in English translation. The course will involve detailed attention to the novels themselves as well as to the cultural and historical circumstances in which they were written, and also the importance they have had for other novelists, artists, and readers in other times and places. The selection of novels studied may change from semester to semester.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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FRENCH 42AC The Cultures of Franco-America 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Literary and cultural texts that emerge out of the long history of the French in North America and of Americans in France. Topics may vary from semester to semester, but the course will always take substantial account of the experiences and histories of representations of different ethnic groups. Students should consult the department's course bulletin well before the beginning of the semester for details.
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Rules & Requirements

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 6 units.

Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Timothy Hampton

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FRENCH 43A Aspects of French Culture 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2018 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 10 Week Session
Various historical and aesthetic themes and problems in the development of French civilization. In English.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: 43

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FRENCH 43B Aspects of French Culture 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Various historical and aesthetic themes and problems in the development of French civilization. In English.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: French/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: 43

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FRENCH 80 The Cultural History of Paris 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019
. An in-depth “forensic” exploration of the urban artifact that is Paris through the study of a variety of texts, films, paintings, engravings, and maps ongSummer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per...