2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    May 03, 2024  
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FRCH& 122 French II (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly FRNCH 102 - CCN

Prerequisite FRCH& 121 with a grade of 2.0 or better; or 1 year high school French plus placement in ENGL& 101; or instructor permission.

Course Description
Continuation of FRCH& 121 stressing speaking, reading, writing and understanding the French language.

Course Content
A.Telling time, days, dates and frequency of events
B.Schools, universities and class schedules
C.Meals (food and drinks), restaurants, ordering and food/meal etiquette
D.Shopping and stores
E.Weather, seasons, calendars
F.Sports and extra-curricular activities
G.Describing past events (passé composé)
H.Comparisons

Student Outcomes
1. Comprehend information related to basic personal and social needs and relevant to one’s immediate environment such as self and everyday life, school, community, and particular interests.

2. Comprehend simple stories, routine correspondence, short descriptive texts or other selections within common contexts.

3. Understand straightforward language that contains mostly familiar structures.

4. Express own thoughts and present information and personal preferences on common topics by creating with language in simple present and past tense verb forms.

5. Produce sentences, series of sentences, and some connected sentences.

6. Use some culturally appropriate vocabulary, expressions and gestures.

7. Use a variety of strategies to maintain communication including asking questions, seeking clarification and self-correcting.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50



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